Great Sinners win at the ATP in Melbourne!

The young tennis player Jennik Sinner, recently turned 19, is the youngest professional to reach ranking 32 in the world rankings, having won 2 ATP tournaments since Djokovic in 2006. After that of Sofia, he won in November of the year. last, the last victory came this week at the Great Ocean Road Open in Melbourne, winning by two sets (7-6; 6-4) against the Italian compatriot Stefano Travaglia, number 71 in the world, in his first challenge for a title of the major circuit.

Sinner confirms his extraordinary skill with the racket, continuing to win important tournaments and climb the world rankings. The Melbourne ATP tournament brings a prize of over 300,000 dollars into the player's pockets and certainly launches him in a higher audience of attention, now he begins to play at high levels and the weight of responsibility can certainly disturb the concentration of a young athlete. . Jennik, however, proved to be much more mature than his young age can demonstrate, as happened in the Melbourne tournament, initially at a disadvantage in the first set, he had the patience and the ability to recover and overturn the result in his favor. 7-6.

Sinner will now have a few hours to rest before the tough first round in the Australian Open against 11th seeded Denis Shapovalov. The tournament is very treacherous and there are champions of the caliber of Thiem, Zverev, Djokovic, Nadal with Medvedev and Tsitsipas. Tournaments of this level are essential for the growth of a young tennis player like Sinner. Competing with the top players is very useful to know their playing strategies and to assimilate small tricks that only the experience on the field against the great champions can teach.

These tournaments are critical not for results, Sinner is unlikely to win the competition but it is very likely that the player will come home with a lot of new game ideas. Experience is learned only from the great champions on the pitch, there are no theories to study and memorize. The reflexes, the sprints, the showers ... These are all elements that can be learned with hours of hard training and tournaments.

I remember that in the Australian tournament Sinner had earned the semifinal even in the doubles, paired with the Polish Hubert Hurkacz, but he had to give up for the contemporaneity of the single semifinal. An enormous physical effort for the 19-year-old South Tyrolean who will debut tomorrow at the Australian Open against Canadian Denis Shapovalov, n. 12 of the world and tough opponent.

The goal of the season is to participate in at least thirty tournaments in order to maintain a high physical preparation and adequate muscle tone. The pandemic is still the big obstacle for all world competitions and the less you play the lower the chances of improving. Sinner is still very young and has a long career ahead of him but he is well aware that it is essential to stay focused and in perfect physical and mental shape. A young tennis player who, I am really convinced, will give a lot of satisfaction to himself and to the Italian national team. To be followed very carefully