Jannik Sinner, Paolo Bertolucci: “We have been used to ‘bad’…”
Jannik Sinner, Paolo Bertolucci: “We have been used to ‘bad’…”
Former Italian tennis player Paolo Bertolucci to OaSport downplayed Jannik Sinner’s knockout in Cincinnati, right after his Toronto triumph: “Honestly, I’m not surprised. Beating Lajovic yesterday, the way Jannik was, was almost equivalent to winning the tournament.”
“There is little time to adapt and a very different climatic context. He, then, with the exception of the Final in Canada, faced quarters and semifinals in Toronto always playing in the evening and also having less margin to recover from one match to the next. It’s normal that he didn’t have great energy, and I wouldn’t be dramatizing what happened.”
Bertolucci then made an observation about the comparison with the Big 3: “The problem is precisely this: we have been used ‘badly.’ Djokovic, Federer and Nadal were something different and so they have shown that they can also handle these situations from one tournament to the next.”
“Here the context is different and there is a lot of talk about Sinner, but others have also gone out. De Minaur lost yesterday to Monfils, Ruud, Rune and Rublev? At home to them as well. This is the norm in tennis, but we have lived for so long with players who have made the exception the rule.”
