The time of waiting is over. Jannik Sinner is back and ready to recover what for three months was not his: not the primacy in the world ranking, that none of the opponents managed to question, but the centrality in tennis. That the return after the story of the contamination with the clostebol takes place in Rome, in front of its audience and in a tournament never conquered, adds flavor to an already rich dish. That Jannik will we find? What times and goals should be given? Panorama.it He asked the great former Azzurra Raffaella Regginow commentator of the tournaments transmitted exclusively by Sky Sport.
The answer is surprising, because it draws a second half of the season in which Sinner can aim for everything. Already in Rome, but lengthening the view beyond the appointment of the International of Italy, putting in the sights the Grand Slam that until a few years ago was not even conceivable for an Italian tennis player. The explosion of the South Tyrolean has dropped every taboo. Once the history of the clostebol is archived, it is time to revive the wire with the course of events.
Raffaella, Sinner returns: what changes compared to what we have experienced so far?
“He will surely have all his eyes, he returns after three months of suspension and there will be pros and cons. Advantages, because he will tone in front of his audience and this will give him an extra charge, doubts because he will have to understand his athletic conditions and beyond, after three months stationary. I mean the habit of playing the games, for that it will surely take some time”.
Will have a return that will not be soft in the circuit
“The draw has given him a couple of shifts that are not impossible. If in parmesan those two shifts there in my opinion then it can go quiet enough. He must disclose the first games, then it is all downhill. It will not be easy because the disability of playing is a speech that has repercussions from a psychological point of view, not only technical or physical”.
For three months we read that being able to stop also represented a kind of privilege in a world where the best never rest. Will it be so?
“The return phase to competitive reality is not simple. It was sure to be concentrated for three months on himself, even if I imagine that his athletic preparation has not always been intense. But he was also able to stay at home a little and he understood that there is something beyond tennis. He experienced it as in a bubble with his family, friends, also succeeding in diverting the thought from tennis and feeling different experience on social media: the Go-Kart, trying things that you never have ever had the opportunity and the opportunity to do during tournaments and workouts “.
What goal should it be?
“I say it without great problems: this year it can also be the Grand Slam that the opponents have not been able to take advantage of these three months and that Jannik was able to focus on the physical preparation for the beaten earth which in the best of the five sets is very expensive”.
Why did the others melted without him?
“Zeverev paid the defeat in the final of the Australian Open that he was absolutely convinced that he could take home. He came out with broken bones and then he did not plan in the best way going to South America where there is a red land other than the European one. A context also psychologically difficult that did not favor Things in his own way, detaching when there is to detach and not always remain concentrated on racket and ball.
He was criticized for his approach …
“Ferrero went down in commenting on him, saying that if this is his way of reasoning he will never become one of the best ever. But it must be remembered that at his age he has already brought home four Slam and must be respected even if he does not have the same mental strength as Sinner in the important moments of the game. Carlos sometimes in the key moments wants the play to spectacular rather than going more than concreteness, but I do not really feel like pointing to him.”
In Rome we also arrive with Lorenzo Musetti in the Top10.
“Already two years ago I said that the boy had the opportunity to arrive in the top ten and I am happy that there was there with a difficult path. It is not easy to become a dad so soon, he had to try to try to find a balance off the pitch and now I see him a little more mature even on what he shows when he plays, on the choices on how to be on the pitch”.
Rome is a historically not favorable tournament for Italians. Last success in 1976 with Panatta. Why?
“Rome is a particular tournament, there is a heavy psychological component. We haven’t won for almost half a century? It would be now no …. it was also said of the Davis Cup and we made it. The conditions are all there and if it does not happen already this year maybe there is the opportunity in the next”.
Sinner will have more than ever the eyes of everyone on them. Can it be a difficulty?
“He has always been very good with his team to remain in a bubble, but in Rome it is all very amplified because there are also appointments to which you are forced by sponsors or other. Those who work with him have always been able to be able to also be able to put him in the conditions of not finding a heavy burden on the shoulders represent from the pressure of expectations”.
In Rome we also embrace the choice of Tayra Grant to play for Italy. How do you judge it?
“I am absolutely curious to be able to see her play also because years ago I remember that I dishes, talking about it, he told me that he had to show me a girl who trained from him in Bordighera. He is followed by Eduardo Artaldi as manager, the same as Musetti and Berrettini, and he also asked me for an opinion. I do not see the time to attend a live match, they tell me it is with great physicality”.
That has chosen Italy means that today we are the nation guide in tennis, although perhaps this confirmation was not necessary?
“In women there is need because (13:52) in my opinion there is a saying so different level than what has been done over the years for men. When we had the era of Schiavone, Pennetta, Vinci and Errani it was the time to push the accelerator in trying to grow the movement behind those girls, giving a different push.
Raffaella Reggi is one of the faces and voices of the Sky Sport tennis team that in this spring 2025 starts a season of great exclusives dedicated to rackets, starting from the International of Italy (covered with 13 live days to follow everything and not only the return to Sinner’s field). In the schedule on Sky and streaming on Now over 90 competitions of all kinds for over 6,000 hours of live: in July the legendary Wimbledon, exclusively, and the US Open in the summer, as well as a series of 42 tournaments. New in the coming months the original production in ten episodes entitled Tennis Heroesstarring the couple formed by Adriano Panatta and Paolo Bertolucci: the two former blue champions will be entrusted with the task of portraying the great protagonists of yesterday and today’s tennis.
