Sara Curtis Opens Up About Jannik Sinner: “I Screamed”

Federica Brignone, Andrea Kimi Antonelli, and now Sara Curtis: In 2026, Jannik Sinner has been celebrating the many Italian champions who are making Italy great in sports. In recent days, it was the turn of the Italian swimmer—the new star of the pool—who received a message from the world’s number-one tennis player.

“When he texted me yesterday to congratulate me, I screamed! I couldn’t believe it!” the champion from Cuneo told RAI reporters. Sara Curtis, who will celebrate her 20th birthday in a few days, has won five medals at the European Swimming Championships currently underway in Paris. “All my training partners in Virginia even wrote to me to congratulate me.”

Sinner had praised Federica Brignone before the Milan-Cortina Olympics for her incredible recovery from injury: “What Federica Brignone has done and is doing—regardless of the results she achieves—is something almost no one can do. I wish her only the best at the Olympics, because I know how much time she’s spent in the gym to get everything right,” wishes that proved auspicious for the athlete from Valle d’Aosta, who won two gold medals.

His friendship with Kimi Antonelli is well known: the two hold each other in high regard and even met during the most recent Wimbledon tournament, which the Italian won.

Meanwhile, Sinner celebrated his 25th birthday privately, surrounded by his loved ones, before leaving for the United States ahead of the U.S. Open—the season’s final Grand Slam and the world No. 1’s major late-summer goal. The South Tyrolean star has completed his treatment at JMedical in Turin following the right knee injury he sustained after winning the Wimbledon final, and will have about a dozen days to train and regain his rhythm and confidence before the tournament begins on August 30.