Jasmine Paolini speaks out on Jannik Sinner’s forfeit
Jasmine Paolini speaks out on Jannik Sinner’s forfeit
Jasmine Paolini at a media briefing in Paris spoke ahead of the start of the Olympic tournament. The Azzurra commented on the surprising forfeit of Jannik Sinner, which has embittered a bit everyone at Casa Italia. The world number one and beacon of the Italian movement è was forced to forfeit, but according to Jasmine, his absence will not affect the Italian tennis players too much.
"Sinner’s absence increases our responsibility;? Sorry for Jannik but I don’t think it puts additional pressure on us", explained the Tuscan in the press room. "It is strange to come back to Roland Garros after a short time, è a bit’ different because of the balls, the courts, the weather conditions. I am a little bit’ surprised to be back there after a month and a half but è still a nice place to play".
Jasmine Paolini preferred to train at the sea: "I didn’t go, I trained trying to bring forward the work on the land. We arrived on Tuesday and continued the work on clay". Azzurra will debut against Romania’s Ana Bogdan, and in the second round she could face the tricky Mirra Andreeva.
On her participation in the opening ceremony: "I would like to but I don't know what time she will do; and not sleeping in the village would be a very long thing. I don't know what he's going to do yet. Definitely if I play on Saturday I won't go.
