Jannik Sinner reunites with a Simone Vagnozzi who is more gassed than ever.

Milanista Jannik Sinner found a Simone Vagnozzi more gassed than ever. The coach from Alto Adige, a great fan of Ascoli, celebrated the return to Serie B of the “Picchio”: he did it directly at the Del Duca stadium, where the bianconeri got the better of Brescia (3-0 in the return match after the 1-1 materialized in the home of the ‘Rondinelle’) going to join the three promoted to the cadetteria after the regular season: Vicenza, Arezzo and Benevento. Bra, Pontedera, Siracusa, Foggia, Trapani, the excluded Rimini, Triestina, Virtus Verona and Pro Patria instead slipped to Serie D.

A playoff path that was anything but a foregone conclusion for the Marche-based Bianconeri, who had beaten Potenza and Catania before making it to the final against Union Brescia. The Lombardi, for their part, had eliminated Casarano and Salernitana, earning the right to play for the last ticket to the cadetteria in one hundred and eighty minutes. For Ascoli it is a return to B after two years of purgatory.

The Alto Adige champion was reassured by the examinations carried out at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan: what happened in Paris would in fact be attributable to a general state of fatigue, which matured after more than two months of intense competitive activity, with numerous close encounters and few opportunities to carry out adequate preparation work, a situation further aggravated by the high temperatures recorded in the French capital during the tournament.

The package of checks carried out at St. Raphael’s included cardiac and metabolic examinations, necessary to rule out pathologies or deficits that may have contributed to the Parisian physical collapse, with advanced monitoring to check for any abnormalities under stress and analysis aimed at assessing absorption, recovery and energy management. It should be recalled that Sinner, in the days immediately following the malaise suffered in Paris, had already gone to the J-Medical in Turin for initial specialist examinations, before deciding to investigate further using the specific instrumentation available in the Milan hospital. In the hours spent between Paris and Milan, the world number one was not alone: his fiancée Laila Hasanovic, the Danish model, remained by his side at all times, even following him on the mini-vacation on a boat in Sardinia spent with some friends before the clinical examinations.

Tuesday afternoon Sinner returned to Monte Carlo, where he will resume training today at the Country Club together with Vagnozzi himself, wielding the racket again for the first time since his defeat on Parisian clay. The pre-Wimbledon program is already defined in detail, as confirmed by Paolo Bertolucci, who spoke to Rai Radio 1 during the program ‘Un giorno da pecora’: “Jannik had already scheduled these two days of visits, I knew he would have a complete check-up. The program is clear, tonight he returns to Monte Carlo and tomorrow he resumes training. No pre-Wimbledon tournaments, at most an exhibition match.” A clear line, then, confirming the choice already announced in recent weeks: no tournaments on grass before the Championships, only focused work and constant monitoring of fitness.

The goal is to regain that rhythm and brilliance shown in the extraordinary positive series between Indian Wells and Rome, via Miami, Monte Carlo and Madrid, which had led Sinner to win five consecutive Masters 1000 in the first half of 2026. On the collapse of Paris, the tennis world continued to debate heatedly. Greg Rusedski, in his podcast ‘Off Court with Greg,’ offered an alternative reading to the heat and fatigue hypothesis: “I don’t think, after an hour and 45 minutes, the problem has to do with physical preparation, hydration or nutrition. We are talking about a maniacal perfectionist. He does everything flawlessly. I think he doesn’t want to tell everyone that he’s been affected by a virus, but that’s how it was for me.” An argument that contrasts with that of Patrick Mouratoglou, who is one hundred percent convinced that it was heatstroke, and that of John McEnroe, who says that the problem of cramping and physical failure in extreme heat conditions is nothing new for Sinner, with the South Tyrolean’s team working for years to find the right countermeasures.