The Italian Jannik Sinner celebrated his rise to number 1 in the ATP rankings on Tuesday with a mass bath in Sesto Pusteriaa town in northern Italy near San Candido – his hometown -, which gave him such a great reception that even the rain didn’t stop.
Sinner, who leads the ranking ahead of Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, recent Roland Garros champion, He returned to the Italian countryside as a hero, welcomed by his compatriots and nearly 500 children from all the towns in the area. gathered in the small town of Sesto Pusteria where the sports center where he started playing as a child is located, just 10 minutes from San Cándido.
“I am very happy to be here, a place where I was born and where I spent my youth with friends and family. I am happy to see so many young people here and share this day with them,” said the 23-year-old young tennis player, before signing the town’s ‘Golden Book’.
At the event, Sinner was not only accompanied by his parents and his grandmother, but he was surrounded by two of the three most important titles of his career: the Davis Cup salad bowl and the world number 1 trophy.
Sesto Pusteria was filled with tennis fans and followers of a Sinner exciting in Italyso the local authorities prohibited the entry of vehicles into the historic center of the city.
Source: La Verdad
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