Turin, 13 July (LaPresse) – “Jannik Sinner is a great example; on the court, he embodies what we as a Federation aim to achieve – naturally, off the court. Behind the scenes, we are continuing to work harder than ever to try to provide ever greater opportunities for our sports clubs, coaches and our best young players, and to make tennis increasingly popular.” So said Angelo Binaghi, president of the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation, commenting to Supertennis on the Italian player’s success yesterday at Wimbledon. “He was also coming off the back of a very difficult French Open, which forced him to miss the grass-court warm-up tournaments leading up to Wimbledon. I think he paid the price for that in the first round, where he only managed to beat Kecmanovic in the fifth set, and probably in the subsequent rounds too. Gradually, however – and I mean gradually – he proved himself to be the strongest player in the world, by at least a length,” continued the FITP’s head “I think the highlight was the second set of this final, where he managed to beat a Zverev in great form on grass, who put 86 per cent of his first serves in play; on the remaining 14 per cent, he hit a second serve that was even faster, exceeding 200 kilometres per hour, and I think that’s where we saw the true champion that Jannik is.”
Wimbledon, Binaghi: ‘Sinner is a great example to us all’
Turin, 13 July (LaPresse) – “Jannik Sinner is a great example; on the court, he embodies what we as a Federation aim to achieve – naturally, off the court. Behind the scenes, we are continuing to work harder than ever to try to provide ever greater opportunities for our sports clubs, coaches and our best young players, and to make tennis increasingly popular.” So said Angelo Binaghi, president of the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation, commenting to Supertennis on the Italian player’s success yesterday at Wimbledon. “He was also coming off the back of a very difficult French Open, which forced him to miss the grass-court warm-up tournaments leading up to Wimbledon. I think he paid the price for that in the first round, where he only managed to beat Kecmanovic in the fifth set, and probably in the subsequent rounds too. Gradually, however – and I mean gradually – he proved himself to be the strongest player in the world, by at least a length,” continued the FITP’s head “I think the highlight was the second set of this final, where he managed to beat a Zverev in great form on grass, who put 86 per cent of his first serves in play; on the remaining 14 per cent, he hit a second serve that was even faster, exceeding 200 kilometres per hour, and I think that’s where we saw the true champion that Jannik is.”
