Angelo Binaghi doesn’t raise his voice: he uses it like a megaphone. And when he talks about Jannik Sinner, the president of the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation does not give discounts to anyone. Neither to the critics, nor to the up-to-the-minute moralists, nor to those who watch tennis from afar but claim to explain it to the country.
The interview granted to Libero is a political-sports manifesto: an unfiltered defense of the number one in Italian tennis, a frontal attack on generalist commentators and a declaration of intent on the future of Italian tennis, with Rome at the center of the world and the Milan-Cortina Olympics in the background.