Angelo Binaghi still has no doubts about Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz.
Angelo Binaghi returned to talk to Rai Radio 1 about the moment in Italian tennis: “We want to make tennis more popular than soccer. We work for this, we have this mandate, I think we have a very good chance. We have players who win, young, with a good image. We have a federation that is rampant, agile, that has no strings or ties, so it can make quick decisions and seize all opportunities. And we have a moment of great popularity and passion of the Italians that we have to channel by trying to bring them all to the court: to tennis, to padel and now to pickleball“.
Chapter coverage of the Foro Italico center court: “We have been waiting for it for 15 years, also because in addition to the coverage it will give 2 thousand more seats, which are manna falling from the sky, because the passion of the Italians cannot be contained by that small Central. It will be ready for the 2028 edition. As President Mezzaroma told Sport and Health, work should start the first day after the next edition of the tournament so in May 2026. Different conditions for the 2027 tournament? No, identical conditions. I think it will happen like when they covered the Wimbledon center, there will be no interruption in the management of the event”.
“If we had been told at the beginning of the tournament that the event would be so successful, that Jasmine Paolini would win the singles and also the doubles, that we would have a finalist and a semifinalist in the men’s, we would not have believed it. Now, as the boys say, we fly to Paris and try to win everything as always” added Binaghi.
“Alcaraz? Of the two I still keep Sinner all the way. He played those two set points badly, especially the second one when there’s been a long exchange and he came out with a long backhand off by a meter. But we should not forget that Jannik had not played for three months. We would have settled for two-three rounds, at most a quarterfinal instead he went all the way. He proved that he is a great champion and the strongest player in the world”.
