Warning from No. 1 Australian Open Sinner: “I’d be lying if I said I forgot”

The Italian Jannik Sinner It will officially debut in the 2025 season playing directly at the Australian Open. “Because the previous one was too, too long. I also played Davis Cup. And you need to spend some time in the preseason to prepare well. To make some tactical and technical changes, you need time,” he says.

In variations, the serve. “A change in movement, maybe not noticeable from the outside but we players notice a lot,” said the world No. 1, current champion of the season’s first Grand Slam.

Its service dynamics have also changed. Carlos Alcarazwho opted for a direct movement, without rest, immediately entered the track. The Murcian is the great generational rival of the transalpine, although he is two years older (23 and 21, respectively).

He comments that his rivalry with Alcaraz It means “having more attention on you, you have more tension in our games because they are followed by the majority of fans. Although there are also other great players between the two of us.”

The criminal pointed out that both he and Alcaraz began to enjoy their confrontations. “First is the part that you start playing against Carlos, which is difficult to overcome. When this happens, and I think he also feels the same, it is already different. Playing among young people you bring out the best in yourself, the ang quality is usually very high.”

Once the rivalry is assimilated, the challenge is accepted, Sinner also remembers that “at the end of the day, it’s still a tennis match. We try to make it as good as possible. I hope people enjoy it.”

This is the current classic of world tennis, which may be interrupted depending on what resolution the Court of Arbitration for Sport (TAD) takes when the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) files an appeal against the resolution of the International Tennis Integrity Agency ( ITIA ) to absolve him of the blame for testing positive for clostebol in March 2024.

The AMA is asking for between one and two years of punishment for Jannik Sinner, as it considers that he should be held responsible for what his team is doing: his former physio infected his body through massages without wearing gloves and a finger wound being treated. with medicine containing clostebol.

“I know exactly the same as you. We are at a stage where we don’t know much,” he said about the process at TAD. He continues to prepare in Melbourne Australian Openthough he cautions that “of course I think about all this, of course. I’d be lying if I said I’d forgotten. It’s something that’s been with me for a long time,” he elaborates.

He handled it well from March, when he tested positive on two tests, until August, when the case became known when it was resolved in his favor. Although his results grew especially when it was released in August. Their streak is 29 in 39 games, including the last 14 in a blowout.

“At 23 years old, sometimes you don’t know exactly what to do in a certain situation, but I think I learned from last year. We will do a lot, better in handling certain situations outside the track, ” he said.