Angelo Binaghi sends a message to Jannik Sinner
Angelo Binaghi gave an’interview to ‘La Gazzetta dello Sport’ after Italy’s triumph in the Davis Cup, its third in a row: “We won Davis despite three months of forced stop to our No. 1, despite weeks of injury to our No. 2. He was right Jannik: we are a great team even without him and Lorenzo”.
“We can afford to keep out a top 30 like Darderi, tennis players like Arnaldi, and win – added the FITP president. It means we have a system that works. Davis is a competition, with the current formula, that has often been won with one player. We could play with eight to 10 players. In men’s tennis we are the strongest nation in the world. What more do we need to do? ”.
He then sent a message to Jannik Sinner: “I would not talk about goal, but goals, plural. After Jasmine Paolini’s triumph last May, we need to win the men’s Internazionali d’Italia, as it hasn’t happened in 50 years, and have another big celebration like this. Sinner then has to get back to No. 1, Musetti has to get into the top 4-5. Errani has to play all her life. And we still expect so much from Jasmine. There is an incredible climate that must be exploited”.
Finally, the Federtennis number one dedicated the victory to Nicola Pietrangeli: “This is the first time in 25 years that Nicola Pietrangeli is not here with us. Nicola is the history of the Davis Cup in Italy, he is the player who has played the most matches in the world in this competition, he is the Davis Cup for us and for the rest of the world. We would like to give him the strength to make sure that next year he will be with us again to fight together with the boys”.
