Winner of his very first title on the main circuit, on November 14 in Sofia, the young Italian prodigy Jannik Sinner, 19, gave an interesting interview to the daily Corriere. He returns in particular to a 2020 season disrupted by the pandemic as well as his Roland Garros where he was only eliminated by Rafael Nadal in the quarter-finals after beating Alexander Zverev in the eighth. At the end of this meeting, the German said he was sick before entering the court even if he had tried everything to get back into the match, notably pocketing the third set. An attitude that went badly with the young transalpine.
“I respect him a lot because he won more than me, he has more experience on the circuit and he’s a great player. However, I do not share his statements after his defeat against me at Roland Garros. He contradicted himself a lot. He said he had a fever, but in the third and fourth sets he ran more than me. It seems to me that he was looking for an excuse after his defeat. Federer or Nadal, for example, would never have said such things “, explained the young protégé of Riccardo Piatti who is already starting to make “friends” on the circuit.
Posted on Wednesday, November 25, 2020 at 4:16 PM
