Elena Pero: “Not just Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner keeps an eye on another rival.”
Elena Pero: "Not only Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner keep an eye on another rival"
Sky commentator Elena Pero, on the sidelines of the press conference presenting the Grand Final of the tennis season on Sky, spoke to Sportal.it microphones about Jannik Sinner and his magical 2024. "Did I expect such a path? Soì great maybe not, forò you could see that something had changed, starting from the autumn you could see that there was another step, another conviction. Then tennis è a deadly sport from certain points of view, because youé start winning and as if one victory carries another, and so è it was a crazy end of season, forè from here to come back a year later with Sinner number one in the world and two-time Slam Champion, with also all that è happened, maybe so much we didn" expect it.
Elena Pero emphasized the mental strength of Sinner, who won and won again despite the Clostebol case: "The circumstances were special, not è that he had an injury and had to recover from the injury or there was a physical aspect… and instead è it was worse than an injury, because è as he said so many times he had no control over what was going to happen, and è he was able fortunately to work on himself and have the depth, the rationality; to understand that he was okay from a behavioral point of view. He was not at fault and therefore è he somehow managed to detach himself from a situation that was difficult to handle because of his young age, because of the secrecy, because of everything so he showed that he is a person who can reflect, who can be rational and deep and therefore è as if he lives in two different dimensions, the dimension on the tennis court, this rectangle in which he feels safe, and for the rest he says 'on that I have no control and I try to detach myself from it as much as possible'".
The rivalry'with Alcaraz: "You probably become very big only if equally big are your rivals, and so it's a constant tugging at each other, a constant pushing. Alcaraz è the perfect rival because of the contrast of styles, because of the contrast of personalities, because è it is a rivalry that catches like the one between Nadal and Federer" in its time.
The Sky reporter highlighted forò another rival not to be underestimated: "There is little talk about it, but at this time of the season it scares Zverev, because maybe è the verification that Sinner still lacks, a player who has always bothered him and in recent times instead has not crossed with the continuityà for example Medvedev and the number of victories, so Zverev è a rival to keep an eye on" as well.
"Would Sinner prefer an encore in Davis or winning in Turin at home in front of his fans? In my opinion he would say both, in the sense that ambition is part of the positive prerogatives of the sport, and so every time he takes the court, the world number one wants to win".
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