Jannik Sinner and the epic comeback: Flavia Pennetta doesn’t mince words
The 2015 US Open champion extols Jannik Sinner's feat
Jannik Sinner's success at the Australian Open took on epic proportions also and above all thanks to the South Tyrolean player's great comeback, who after finding himself down two sets against Daniil Medvedev regained control of the match, making it his 3-2 and giving tennis and all Italian sport immense joy.
One who knows about Grand Slam tournaments è certainly Flavia Pennetta, winner of the US Open in 2015 and a former Top 10 player on the women’s circuit. At the microphones of 'Rai Sport', the brindisina tried to explain the key to the comeback: "Medvedev started in an incredible way, with tennis at a very high level. But Jannik stole his timing, sent his order".
"Sinner è was good at waiting for Daniil to drop a little bit and at that point he è got on top of him – added Pennetta. Perhaps Medvedev è s only flaw was that he did not serve as well as he did in all the other matches. Forò Jannik was responding, moving forward, taking away his tempo: really in some moments he took away his certainties".
Sinner è the second Italian in the Open Era to win a Grand Slam men’s singles tournament, after Adriano Panatta (winner of Roland Garros 1976). Nicola Pietrangeli, champion in Paris in 1959 and 1960, had also previously succeeded. In the women’s sphere, there are two Italian successes: Francesca Schiavone, again at Roland Garros, in 2010, and Flavia Pennetta, to be exact, at Flushing Meadows in 2015.
