Jannik Sinner triumphs: fans lash out at Gravina, Vespa and Rai
Jannik Sinner’s triumph in Monte Carlo is camping on all the home pages of Italian portals and newspapers, while on social media fans are rejoicing for their idol and hunting for revenge. Among the names most in the crosshairs is that of the now former FIGC president Gabriele Gravina, who two weeks ago after the Italian national team’s debacle in Bosnia had called other sports “amateur” unlike soccer,
“Amateurs who as a hobby win Masters 1000 and in their spare time become number 1 in the world,” “Bravino this amateur,” “the amateur SINNER answered you. Gravina……un bel tacer non fu mai scritto”, “With Sinner the flag of Italy is back flying and everyone is singing the anthem… Dedicated to Gravina”, “Gravina we present to you the strongest amateur in the world”, “Someone call Gravina and tell him that the amateur #Sinner has won yet another tournament and is back to being No.1 in the world”.
In the fans’ crosshairs have also ended up Bruno Vespa and Rai. The national network is in the crosshairs for not broadcasting the event live, free-to-air on TV8, while the journalist had questioned Sinner’s attachment to the blue colors in the past: “Verogna Rai..! We pay the “canon” to watch Vespa’s “shameful” performances while to see the tennis final in Monte Carlo with an Italian, we have to watch it free-to-air on TV8″, “While we pay the canon on #Rai #Sinner we see it on #tv8 thanks to #Sky,” “Thanks a lot to la8. Rai prefers Vespa”, “Rai will console itself with Italy’s matches at the World Cup…”.
On the court, the final against Carlos Alcaraz ended with a score of 7-6, 6-3 in favor of the South Tyrolean, at the end of a hard-fought match conditioned by the wind. In the first set Sinner suffered an immediate break in the second game, but reacted quickly by counter-breaking Alcaraz in the third, then slipping to the tie-break where he closed on 7-5 after risking a comeback from 5-2 to 5-5. In the second partial, after going down by a break in the third game, he found the counterbreak in the sixth game and the decisive break in the eighth.
A success worth a double: with this title Sinner snatches the number one spot from Alcaraz, rising to 67 weeks spent at the top of the ATP ranking against the Spaniard’s 66, and brings to 22 his streak of consecutive wins in Masters 1000s, winning his 27th career title.
