This is today’s tennis, in which without having time to savor or process the triumph of Casper Ruud in the Magic Fund of Madrid, it jumps directly to the Italic Forum of Rome, with hardly any transition. The Italian tournament heats engines, where everything is already arranged for action and, above all, check in what state Jannik Sinner returns. The number one, 23 years old and section of the competition for exactly three months, after he had reached a for the resolution of his doping case, reappears at home and as if nothing had happened, in reality. That is, Sinner is here again.
“The most beautiful thing will be to enter a field again and see where I am, at what level. I am not afraid, I am happy to be here. Fresh and prepared,” anticipates the Tyrollers, in whose body it was detected in March 2023, an anabolic steroid. Although the Tennis Integrity Unit (ITIA) initially exonerated him, considering that he did not have the will to enhance his performance through the prohibited substance, he was subsequently tried by the TAD and the verdict was reduced to three months of punishment. Therefore, he was able to compete in January in Australia, where he triumphed, and now his goal is none other than Roland Garros, which begins on the 25th.
“Yes, the goal is Paris,” confirms Monday before journalists. “But, for the moment, I am here to try myself, not to win everyone. I am calm and well both physically and mentally,” continues the leader of the circuit, who in the last dates has barely seen tennis or sport – “I was not able, I could not go to a football stadium or see a cycling stage” – and that says it has had a bad time last year, in which, it is incidentally, little less than the way. “Although I received messages that surprised me from some players, from others I did not receive anything, but it is normal,” says Sinner, which began to exercise from April 13, when the World Anti -Doping Agency (AMA) allowed.
He says that he feels a tingling inside the body and that he will now have to deal with “doubts and pressure”, but he hopes to win enough filming to reach Roland Garros, where a year ago. The Murcian won at the beginning of April in Montecarlo, but has not finished taking advantage of the absence of Italian, who still dominates the slaughter ranking world. With a generous margin about the German Alexander Zverev (at 1,645 points) and the Spanish (to 1.880), Sinner comments that nothing has changed too much about last year, although it clarifies: “Now I feel freer. I am very happy with how we have managed everything.”
New threats
Now, he remarks, he is surrounded by “the right people” and has learned to discern between what is truly important and what not. “During the sanction, extra -sports things happened to me that were not easy and that I do not want to talk about,” he says, while affecting, as he had already done a few days ago in an interview granted to the RAI, who accepted the three months as a minor evil: “At the beginning, he did not want to reach an agreement, but it was playing it to the whole or nothing. It was not easy to accept it, because I know what happened []but sometimes you have to accept the best in the worst possible time. And I’m very happy to have finished. ”
Before the sanction enters into force, Sinner had time to conquer his third big one, in Melbourne, and to make it clear that in recent times he is the strongest and most regular player. It already accumulates 19 titles and since it transcended its positive, in August last year, it has managed to capture five, all of them relevant: the US Open, the Masters of Shanghai,, and the Open of Australia. He will debut in Rome on Thursday or Friday, before the winner of the duel between the Argentine Mariano Navone and the Italian Federico Cinà; And, according to the raffle made on Monday, it would not run into Alcaraz until a final hypothetical.
“I am just a 23 -year -old boy who plays tennis. But for me nothing changes, I accept things as they come. I simply like to play tennis and success cannot change me. I always remember that I come from a town of 2,000 people,” he grants the transalpino, who dispensed with seeing the American tour of March and that began to follow the competition two weeks ago, from Madrid. “To see some players that interested me,” he says. “The new generation comes stronger and stronger,” he says. And so it is. In their absence, the Draper, Mesik or Fils have peeked out there, among others. New threats. In any case, Sinner thinks today in Sinner.
Alcaraz, birthday in Murcia
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While Sinner appears again, Carlos Alcaraz also prepares his landing in Rome. The Murcia will fly to the Italian capital on Tuesday and will premiere against the Japanese Yoshihito Nishioka or the German Jan-Lennard Struff.
On the other hand of the TRANSITO Zverev and also the English Jack Draper. With the first one would be in the semifinals and with the second on the previous scale. It should be remembered that a year ago he chose not to compete in the Italic forum for a ancestry ailment.
Before traveling to Italy, the El Palmar celebrated his 22nd birthday on Monday. He trained in the morning and subsequently met with his to blow his candles. Alcaraz accounts for the same trophies (18) that Pete Sampras at that same age, one less than Ivan Lendl.
