Jannik Sinner reveals his new passion and his biggest flaw
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The countdown continues for Jannik Sinner ahead of his Us Open 2025 debut on Tuesday. In between training sessions, the world No. 1 spoke to the press about how he is cheating the wait: “Here in New York I know I have a little bit more time and there’s a Lego store very close to my hotel. So I went there, bought a Porsche. And I finished it in one day, in five hours. Then I thought, I need a bigger one”
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“My gut tells me that the’last one I got is too big… But I like it. I put on the music and think about something else. When you are a tennis player or an athlete, you have so many thoughts in your head, and also pressures. All the time. And so in the evening I like it”.
“To get to where I am I had to accept some of my shortcomings. The main one is not being patient, wanting everything and right away. That was not the solution, you have to insist on every detail and then slowly put the pieces of the puzzle together. Which is not to say that now, as a number one, the work is complete, there’s still to be done, but the progress is imperceptible, sometimes you don’t seem to see it and instead you are moving forward. Definitely the mental coach is important, I have been working with Riccardo Ceccarelli for many years, it is something I wanted to start from because I felt a little deficit”.
Saying about the calendar-related debate: “There are dynamics behind it that we probably don’t know. Right now it is useless to talk about it, some things work, some things don”t work, some things don”t work… you can”t achieve perfection and we tennis players have different points of view”.
