Jannik Sinner, mom Siglinde’s gesture moves everyone
It did not go unnoticed, in the eyes of all the fans glued to the television set to follow yet another feat of Jannik Sinner, the gesture of mom Siglinde, who was sitting in the stands next to Jannik’s dad, Hanspeter, to follow at the Central Court of the Foro Italico the final of the Internazionali d’Italia that Sinner himself won against Casper Ruud.
In the very last bars of the match, in fact, Mrs. Siglinde preferred to lower her head and cover her face, overwhelmed by the emotions that her son was at the same time giving on the court named after Nicola Pietrangeli, a two-time champion in Rome. A gesture that immediately moved the entire community of people who follow tennis and comment in real time on the Internet and that certifies how impossible it is, even for the Sinner family, to get used to victories.
After all, the emotions experienced by the Sinner family during this Roman week had already been intense even before the final. On the occasion of the semifinal against Daniil Medvedev, which began on Friday evening and ended only on Saturday afternoon, Mom Siglinde had had to leave the Central Court after the second set, too overcome with emotion at seeing her son physically suffer on the court. A sensibility, hers, that evidently knows no respite even when Jannik triumphs.
The victory in the final against Casper Ruud, 6-4, 6-4 in one hour and forty-five minutes, handed Sinner the first Internazionali d’Italia title of his career, making him the first Italian to conquer the Roman tournament since Adriano Panatta, who succeeded back in 1976, exactly fifty years ago. A historic achievement, then, that goes far beyond a simple sporting result.
Not only that: the success at the Foro Italico is worth Sinner’s sixth consecutive Masters 1000, after Paris 2025, Indian Wells, Miami, Monte Carlo and Madrid, and makes him the first tennis player since Rafael Nadal, who succeeded in 2010, sixteen years ago, to win all three Masters 1000s on clay in the same year. A titanic feat, which further confirms the extraordinary continuity of performance of the South Tyrolean champion.
In the stands, alongside his parents Hanspeter and Siglinde, Jannik’s fiancée, Danish model Laila Hasanovic, was also present, who had already made her presence known in the previous days at the Foro Italico, confirming her role as a good luck charm for the world number one. A discreet but constant presence, a mirror of a family and affective entourage that evidently represents a fundamental pillar in the balance of a champion who, as his athletic trainer Marco Panichi explained, knows how to “surf on emotions, always staying on the crest of the wave.” A skill with which, unlike Jannik, his family still struggles a bit.
