Corrado Barazzutti crowns Jannik Sinner: “He is the strongest in the world.”

The words of Corrado Barazzutti

Corrado Barazzutti, Musetti’s super coach, also wanted to comment on the feat of Jannik Sinner, who beat Novak Djokovic in the semifinals of the Australian Open, hitting his first final at a Grand Slam tournament and bringing an Italian back to the last act of a Major since Matteo Berrettini at Wimbledon in 2021.

"For me Jannik already è now è the real number one in the world,” said Barazzuti, speaking at the microphones of 'La Stampa' -. The computer does not say it, the results he has achieved explain it. Then è it is true that right now there are several players in disarray, starting with Alcaraz: his tennis è a complete puzzle, when it looked like he was going to win everything for the next ten years he was good at keeping all the tiles in the right place, now he struggles to fit them together and on the court he makes so many wrong choices. Rune needs to recover from physical problems, Shelton è acerbic, a splinter in the head…".

"Djokovic è a superhero, but he is 37 years old, and that should give us pause, as there’è never been such an old number one,” he added. Then Sinner had been sending him signals for a long time that Novak had picked up on. For me, the changing of the guard had already happened between Turin and the Davis Cup Finals. Yesterday I saw a Djokovic who can no longer hold Sinner, neither mentally nor physically. Jannik no longer fears him: as they say in the jargon now "he keeps him under"".

"Djokovic has infinite pride, but to Sinner he has lost three times in the last four occasions. And this time, let’s face it, Jannik rolled him. The Serb won the third set almost by accident, in the fourth he è got broken from 40-0, and not è by him. Then he è disappeared" concluded Barazzutti on the show of strength of the South Tyrolean, who on Sunday will face Daniil Medvedev at 09.30 Italian time to give himself his first Slam title.