Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper on January 29 called Sinner a `golden boy` on the cover with a portrait of the 2024 Australian Open champion. Italy’s leading newspaper is proud of the elite tennis products from the legend’s academy.
Before going to the coastal region bordering southern France to practice with veteran coach Patti, Sinner was born and raised in the small town of San Candido, northeastern Italy.
`It’s a completely different part of Italy,` Sinner coach Simone Vagnozzi told The Athletic about his student’s birthplace.
Siiner with his first Grand Slam title – Australian Open 2024, at Melbourne Park on the afternoon of January 28.
Watching Sinner compete and behave, people can somewhat imagine the German identity in him.
Sinner showed incredible composure at the age of 22. When he defeated the world’s strongest opponent Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of the Australian Open on January 26, the young man just raised his hands to celebrate victory.
`The boy also has a sense of humor and that’s the Italian part of him,` Vagnozzi added about Sinner.
`I don’t get paid enough,` Cahill joked when asked about the difficulty of coaching Sinner.
When he got serious again with the interview, Coach Cahill revealed that his student was addicted to training.
Sinner has shown athletic qualities since childhood.
`I’m grateful to my parents for always letting me do the things I like since I was young,` Sinner said in an interview with ATP Tour after the 2024 Australian Open. `If I didn’t have so many opportunities given to me, I would
Sinner has just helped Italy end its 47-year long drought of winning the Davis Cup, in November 2023.
Sinner’s father, Mr. Hanspeter, regretted missing the moment of watching his son compete in Melbourne last week.
Sinner won 197 matches and lost another 74 in five years as a professional.
In early 2022, Sinner shocked everyone when he parted ways with Piatti, the 65-year-old coach considered Italy’s tennis sage.
Discipline and science have been emphasized more since Sinner had a new crew.
Sinner sometimes dropped to 15th in the world at the end of 2022, compared to the 10th position achieved at the end of 2021. During this difficult period, perseverance helped the Italian talent gradually improve, while Carlos Alcaraz won the Grand Prix.
`Perseverance has helped me surpass my own level. It’s not an easy thing to do, you have to practice to have patience,` Sinner said after winning the 2024 Australian Open. `This is definitely an achievement.`
Sinner, like a German, does not talk much even about professional matters.
`I only talked about Djokovic’s strategy about 20 minutes before the Australian Open semi-finals took place,` the Italian tennis player revealed to the ATP Tour.
Sinner is the third Italian to win a Grand Slam, and the second in the Open era to do so.
`He knows how to cook too,` Ms. Siglinde boasted to Gazzetta newspaper reporters on January 29.