Paolo Bertolucci unleashed, back-and-forth with a fan: c'ent Jannik Sinner

Paolo Bertolucci is always very active on social media, and on Sunday he wanted to provoke fans with a tweet. After Daniil Medvedev’s victory over Carlos Alcaraz in the Indian Wells semifinal, the 1976 Davis Cup winner provocatively asked: “Where are the phenoms who took Alcaraz’s result for granted? ”. Among the comments there was one in particular that received a lot of ‘likes’ and that was Mgthre’s: “I don’t play tennis….I have always been told that it is a sport of the head…you know the physique may be holding you up for life….but the head is not! That is another matter! The little guy (I think though, Sinner too) won&#8230t hold up until Djokovic…s 40s and Federer”s immature”.

Ernesto Villa

Paul Bertolucci’s response was virtually immediate: “You don’t know a sport but you read the future? Well” wrote the Azzurri legend sparking other fans and starting a great debate. At the end of January, Bertolucci had intervened after Jannik Sinner’s loss to Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open semifinals: “Notice to mariners: Jannik Sinner made something exceptional obvious. In sports as in life there are victories but also defeats”.

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The South Tyrolean earned the Indian Wells final thanks to his victory over German Alexander Zverev: “It is a great result. It is my first final here after three semifinals and it is important for me. I am really happy – he said after the match won 6-2 6-4 -. It is also the tournament I had to skip last year. The next match will be tough but I am satisfied with how I played during this week and that is the most important thing. The performance was very good”.

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The worst moment was perhaps before the match, when Sinner stopped during the warm-up due to back discomfort. After the physiotherapist intervened, the match started and in the end there was almost no match.

The Azzurro had already won the previous five against the German, and on each of those occasions curiously he then lifted the trophy (Cincinnati in 2024, Australian Open, Vienna, Paris, and ATP Finals in 2025). The hope for Italian fans is that history will repeat itself this time as well.