Jannik Sinner returns home: no one bothers him, no parties but a promise
The champion’s rest: Jannik Sinner is back home and recharging his batteries at his parents’ in Sesto, Val Pusteria, ahead of the upcoming Roland Garros where he will try to continue his incredible streak of consecutive victories that has stunned the world. The Blue has won the first five Masters 1000s of the year, and now he’s going after the last Slam he’s missing.
Everything is quiet in the village, no parties and no banners, everyone is respecting the world number one’s privacy and rest. However, Mayor Thomas Summerer on Rai Radio1 assured that after the triumph in Rome, the village rejoiced all right: “We are still celebrating Sinner’s victory in Rome, we celebrated in the bars, in the streets, in the squares, we enjoyed the victory of this great champion of ours, who spent 20 years those in Sesto, where his parents and grandparents still live.”
“I am very happy, in our quiet village he will be able to recharge his batteries to win Roland Garros. I will go to say goodbye to him for a moment but we will leave him in peace, we don’t want to disturb him at all,” Summerer continued. “Make a statue of him? The idea exists,” the mayor admitted, “Let’s see if we can make it happen. And then we’ll give him the keys to the city.”
From Jan. 1, 2026 to the final at the Foro Italico on May 17, Sinner spent without playing or training only 14 days out of 136 total days: in practice, he worked nine out of ten days for four and a half consecutive months. It’s a work ethic that explains better than any other analysis why his tennis seems so automatic and infallible in the eyes of his opponents, and makes these days off in the mountains of Val Pusteria all the more deserved.
To those who accuse him of being a machine with no feelings, Sinner responded serenely from the columns of L’Équipe: “I don’t think the term ‘robot’ is derogatory. I work this way, always trying to be as precise as possible by choosing to use the right shot at the perfect moment. I train like this precisely because I want to reach the highest possible level of preparation when a match comes to its highlights. And if I give the image of an emotionless player, it is because I am very focused on what I have to do.”
