Jannik Sinner and Jasmine Paolini, Marcell Jacobs gets exposure

Marcell Jacobs praises Jannik Sinner and Jasmine Paolini

One looks down on everyone in world rankings from the top, the other has played two consecutive finals in Grand Slam tournaments: the sporting parabola of Jannik Sinner and Jasmine Paolini draws praise even from champions of other sports, as evidenced by the words that Marcell Jacobs, an Olympian in athletics in Tokyo 2020, entrusted to 'Sportweek'.

Responding to a question about which Italian athletes have most exalted him in the past three years, Jacobs cited his friend Gianmarco Tamberi, reigning Olympic and European champion in the high jump, and Pecco Bagnaia, a three-time MotoGP world champion (two in MotoGp), before mentioning the two tennis players, "Sinner and Paolini, with their wonderful tennis ascents".

Jasmine Paolini è the highest-ranked representative of Italian women’s tennis in Paris 2024: the world number 5 è entered both the singles tournament and the doubles, where she teams up with Sara Errani. The two, together, won the doubles tournament at the Rome Internationals and played the Roland Garros final, losing it in two sets.

Jannik Sinner, on the other hand, è was forced to forfeit by tonsillitis, as announced by the number 1 men’s world ranking himself via social media on the eve of the Olympic Games: the highest ranked tennis player in Paris è therefore Lorenzo Musetti, who occupies the number 17 box in the ATP rankings.