Jannik Sinner reveals the mistakes that led him to tennis

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The Italian Jannik Sinner He dominated the early part of the season. Champion of the Australian Open, the Rotterdam ATP 500 and the Miami ATP Masters 1000, only Carlos Alcaraz He managed to defeat him in the semi-finals of the ATP Masters 1000 in Indian Wells.

Jannik Sinner, who just stole the world number two Carlos Alcaraz, His most direct generational rival (he was 22 years old, the man from Murcia was 20), he won 22 of his 23 individual matches.

Although now he is entering less favorable terrain, where he still has to prove that he is capable of competing hard, such as on the hard court. On clay his results have not been so impressive, he needs to make rapid growth to catch up Novak DjokovicRoland Garros champion, or Alcarazwhich dominated Godó and Madrid for two consecutive editions.

“Something totally different, another challenge,” Sinner said while holding the Miami trophy. The tour begins in familiar territory, as it resides in Monte Carlo, which hosts the ATP Masters 1000 from April 7 to 14.

“I want to dance in the storm of pressure,” he said of these weeks where he monopolized the pressure, as he led Italy to its second win. Davis cupin November.

You feel ready for challenges, living up to their demands and responsibilities. He has been competing since he was a child, in skiing, soccer and tennis.

Born at the foot of the mountains, near the Austrian border, skiing is meant as a natural habitat. He taught the ways, but the racket was stronger. sinful revealed, in an interview with Vogue magazine, that the key is, paradoxically, in “mistakes.”

Yes, he remembers that “I won many times in skiing when I was a child, I never played tennis. But I also gradually lost in skiing, because physically I was not ready to compete. I was very thin, not too thin . . .

This helped him decide on tennis, but after this reflection: “The reason I chose it is that in tennis you can make mistakes. You can lose points, but you can still win matches .In skiing, if you make one mistake, one big mistake, you don’t win.

At the age of 14, an offer came to go to a high-performance tennis academy, with Riccardo Piatti, and began a slow but sure path to the top. World number one and more titles await him.

Source: La Verdad

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