Flavia Pennetta: “Jannik Sinner example of life.”
The words of Flavia Pennetta
Flavia Pennetta è spoke at the microphones of Radio Manà Manà Sport Roma to comment on Jannik Sinner’s Australian Open success: "As a spectator è it was beautiful, I enjoyed it, commenting on it with Fabio (Fognini, ed) and Francesca (Schiavone, ed). Humanly this stirred memories of what I experienced in New York in 2015. Seeing him on the ground with a sigh of relief made me relive those moments, and è it was very nice because that victory repays you for all the sacrifices. He è a predestined, he is 22 years old and he has already achieved something like that, something like that makes you exceptional".
Jannik Sinner brought back a Slam to Italy that had been missing since 1976 with Adriano Panatta, who won Roland Garros, but in the women’s, Pennetta triumphed at the Us Open in 2015: "We won five, you do well to remember that. This morning I heard Federica Pellegrini asking me about the difference between a men’s Grand Slam and a women’s Grand Slam, because everyone said it had been so long since the last triumph and it bothered her. I told her that it is probably talked about more in the men’s arena. I don’t resent it, but we do well to remember: there are 5 Grand Slams in Italy and not just 3".
"Sinner’s success pushà to sacrifice more? I don’t totally agree, I think an athlete when he decides to give his all for a sport, he sacrifices, both mentally and physically. What you say I find a little bit in the generation of young people today. They have little willingness to sacrifice. Jannik è different, his example è something that motivates everyone, both those who play sports and those who study, for general life è a beautiful example".
"It è kind of reversed what had happened to us when I was still playing. We were very strong and he wondered why the males were not as strong as we were. But they were, even being a world number 40 is not è easy. Tennis è a sport where you have to reconfirm yourself every year, earn points and improve to climb the rankings. When you have a champion and a moment like that it all shifts to him, but not that others are not good. We have an incredible men’s movement, and the women’s movement very good" he commented on the women’s movement.
