“Tennis is a frenetic individual sport that whisks you from one part of the world to another every week. This leads you to make sacrifices, like the Olympics o to Coppa Davis. Nobody is perfect, but before Mattarella gave up I remember Sinner who was about to end up in hospital in Melbourne during the match with Rune”. Thus the president of the Federtennis Angelo Binaghi on Jannik Sinner during an interview with Corriere della Sera. “There isn’t just one rest physicistbut also the need to distract yourself, to meet friends, to be with family. They would like us 50 ore per day,” explained the president of Fitp, speaking of the various waivers received from Italian tennis players in the last two years.
Sinner e Musetti in Coppa Davisthe same Sinner all Olympics 2024: the tennis calendar requires secure from the priorityseen i numerous tournaments and the number of scheduled commitments. This is why Binaghi talks about waivers as a direct consequence of the “frenzy”. The president of the Italian tennis and padel federation then also spoke about the controversies post death Of Pietrangeli and the missed intervention public Of Sinner. “But I was there, from Pietrangeli, to represent Italian tennis, and therefore also Sinner, Berrettini and the generations who did not have the time to get to know Nicola in depth and fully grasp his values,” he replied.
“For a slam you need an investment”: Binaghi speaks
Il movement tennis Italian it is absolutely the most productive and the improve qualitatively speaking in Italy. The result of years of work and not only due to Jannik Sinner’s exploits in the latest seasons. “If one broadens the view, one sees Musetti, Paolini, the Davis Cup, a system. Broadening even further, one sees that for 15 years we have been the only one federation al world with a thematic television. And then, we were losing the Italian Internationals, while now the ATP, WTA and ITF are looking for us because we have become the best organizers of tournaments. They gave it to us Finals e Davis. The then we asked them when Sinner was not born”, recalled Binaghi. Today, in fact, Italy is number 1 in the reven Itf and it’s a model followed all over the world. In fact, you don’t win three consecutive Davis Cups by chance. “Everything is worth it. This favorable situation is the result of constant, healthy, twenty-year growth. And a phenomenon has arisen along this path. There research Of performance absolute of Sinner develops independently from that of the Federation, but with the same desire to win and work”, he said.
And now Italian tennis dreams big. Because the movement is in ascent and from a structural point of view Italy is increasingly trying to keep up with the rest of the world: this is demonstrated by the ATP Finals and the Davis Cup, both in Italy Bologna e Torino in recent years. The dream but it remains host a slam: “A Slam in Italy will be possible when the government invests in potential of the tennis. The Minister of Economy Giorgetti told me that ai meeting financial world championships, even before greeting him they congratulate him on Sinner and tennis”, said Binaghi. But we need a investment. “If in addition to spending 5 billion for the Olympics, a huge and beautiful event that lasts only a few weeks, we would try to spend a tenth of it on an asset that would produce wealth for the next 100 years, then we would also be able to bring a Slam to Italy”.
