“We have an extraordinary generation of kids, led by Sinner, currently number 2 in the world, but number 1 in the race towards Turin. In essence we have the strongest player in the world. The audience when Jannik plays is higher than that of the national football team”. Angelo Binaghi, president of FITP, said this during the Davis Cup trophy tour which today stops at the Sapienza in Rome.
“The Rai audience for the Davis Cup final was 36%, practically 1 in 3 Italians were tuned in for the Davis Cup”, he added. Then President Binaghi listed other numbers of federal growth: “This year we will reach one million members and only football has more with 1 million and 400.
We are the sport that has grown the most in the last 20 years and which is destined to become the most popular in Italy. But it hasn’t always been like this, when we arrived the then president of Coni Petrucci defined the federation as the disaster of Italian sport. Tennis was on the verge of extinction.”
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