Adriano Panatta no-holds-barred on Jannik Sinner: "Never seen one so"
On the pages of Corriere della Sera Adriano Panatta commented on Jannik Sinner’s success at Wimbledon: “It’s like winning the tennis world championship, there are no other possible comparisons. And he deserved it, he chased the trophy to the last, he beat first Djokovic, then Alcaraz, which in two makes nine wins at the Championships. The most prestigious trophy in tennis is Jannik Sinner’s, and a little bit of ours, which we have nothing to do with, because it is his alone and no one else’s, but we are glad to share it”.
Then he went into the details of the final with Carlos Alcaraz: “Intense match, played at the highest level, not as beautiful (or even as shocking) as the final in Paris, but able to show us the best of a tennis player who goes straight to the goal, who does not get down when the other, with four great player’s tricks slip him the first set, but stays there, on the piece, ready to react. And from the beginning of the second set, there he is, head down hammering”.
“A boy of many talents, but the greatest lies in his head, in the way he can always shoot straight, even in difficulties– stressed the’former tennis player. “All I can say is that in so many years of tennis, I had rarely seen someone like him. I heard Carlos Alcaraz complaining to his team, “I can’t keep him from the back court.” Wow what a confession, the kind you’re only ready to make when you’re desperate. Tennis players, the good ones, figure it out first where it is going, and the Spaniard sensed that under the pressure Sinner was putting him under, he would not last very long”.
“The confrontation will go on, Sinner versus Alcaraz, Alcaraz versus Sinner. We are 8-5, and five-four in Slams. Sinner could end his run with three Slams this season, I am convinced that at the US Open he will still have breath, the others much less. But what matters is that the Wimbledon trophy has changed hands. It is now his. And I am happy about it, and also a little bit excited” concluded Panatta.
