Jannik Sinner, Paul Cané drastic: "Some things hurt"

L’former Italian tennis player Paolo Cané in an interview with Sportitalia spoke about Jannik Sinner&#8217s fantastic 2025, making a premise: the San Candido outfielder must be protected, as the champion he is. “I would just like to point out that it hurts me when I hear negative comments about this boy. He enthuses the children, he is an example and he is the drag of the movement. So to protected: and he protects himself. Because he has a big family and does not devote time to outside issues. He’s good at staying focused, after all that happened to him last year with the suspension and other difficult times, so he should be protected”.

“Sinner is a great professional, a champion with enormous energy, he transmits his ability to the whole world– continued Cané, who set the Blue’s next goals. Definitely the Slams. The other tournaments are preparation. He has to reconfirm Australia right away, I think it will be a very interesting 2026”. The’former tennis player also spoke about the four-time Slam champion&#8220s growth: “He will improve like wine, with the years, I really think the’experience will help him so much. As his coach Cahill says, I think he will be at his peak around 27/28. He is improving day by day, he is manic and always looking for perfection, he improves the shots cwhich he didn”t like and he is always thinking about the next competition”.

Cané also praised the Davis Cup-winning Azzurri: “I knew they could do well, they played very difficult matches. Berrettini always brought the first point, he did very well. And Cobolli did more than his: he found himself tougher opponents. Always starting with the one-zero scored by Berrettini, true. With Munar, though, he had a very high burden at home. Great honor to these guys. They set a great example. Flavio thanks to Davis has received a good dose of d’energy, it will depend a lot on programming what he can do in 2026. If it”s right, he”s a guy who can make it to the top”.

Even world-renowned coach Patrick Mouratoglou spoke glowingly of Sinner on his Linkedin profile: “Alcaraz if he wants to dominate in 2026 he has to start improving the first two strokes. He has to raise his level because Sinner is currently number one in the world in serving and response. He is unique. We’ve had players dominate one side of the equation-Roger in serve, Rafa and Novak in response-but never both. This is something new in the history of tennis. 2026 is already shaping up to be incredible”, said the’coach of champions such as Serena Williams, Simona Halep, Holger Rune, Stefanos Tsitsipas and Naomi Osaka.