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The very talented 2001 South Tyrolean class was champion at youth level before taking the racket in hand. His idol was Bode Miller ...
Tuesday 14 May 2019 4 minutes reading time
In recent weeks, and especially in recent days, there is a lot of talk about Jannik Sinner as the future of Italian tennis.
The 2001 native class of San Candido, residing in Sesto in Val Pusteria before moving to Bordighera to begin his career with a racket in the hands of a guru like Riccardo Piatti, was in fact a champion at youth level on skis, for then, despite the very green age of only 17, he started playing with the big players at world level, winning his first ATP matches and, last Sunday, the first match in a Masters 1000 tournament at the International of Italy in Rome.
On Wednesday at the Foro Italico, the South Tyrolean talent will challenge Stefanos Tsitsipas to find a place in the round of 16: "Why did I leave skiing at 13? I felt it would be more suitable for me to play a sport where you don't have to play everything in less than two minutes, "said Sinner, whose parents work in a shelter in the beautiful Val Fiscalina.
Jannik confessed that, as a young boy, he owned the poster of Bode Miller in his room, whose uncle and former coach, Mike Kenney, told how he was able to find several similarities between the American champion (excellent tennis player, among other things ) and Novak Djokovic, the No. 1 in the world of the ATP ranking. Regarding the Serbian champion, the link between tennis and skiing comes back into play: yes, because "Nole" very often spends his winter holidays in Val Gardena and is a true lover of snow, having already put his skis at 2 years old in Kopaonik, locality where his father Srdjan, a former national, helped him grow up with his uncle Goran, another excellent skier. "Skiing has helped me improve the flexibility of ankles and knees since the early age", Djokovic's words to explain how for fun and utility for his sport, skiing is really very important.
Still on the subject of tennis, another protagonist of the world of racket, the current captain of the French Davis Cup and former world number 4, Sèbastien Grosjean, grew up on skis in Pra Loup, to then choose only at 11 years old of age to try a career in the world of tennis, also explaining that the relationship between the two sports is much closer than many think.
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