Jannik Sinner, Boris Becker doesn’t discount: one detail doesn’t convince him

The physical collapse one game away from success against Juan Manuel Cerundolo, which cost Roland Garros favorite number one Jannik Sinner, continues to cause discussion. Boris Becker, who just like Sinner won the other Grand Slam tournaments but missed the Parisian appointment (he was a three-time semifinalist), is back on the topic: the former German champion, interviewed by the ‘Corriere della Sera’, raised a real alarm bell.

“Only he knows the truth but, as an observer, I can’t help noticing that here in Paris it is not the first time he has been sick and, perhaps, not the last,” Becker explained. “I saw him suffer in the semifinals in Rome, where it was not hot. Unbelievable, for a player as fit as he is. With the humid heat, I know the problem: I have light skin like Jannik, we are not people cut out for high temperatures… But at Roland Garros, with Cerundolo, it was not torrid. That’s why the justification of physical defaillance alone doesn’t convince me.”

“Jannik has his mysteries, but it all starts in the head: if you have doubts, you don’t sleep well and then you play badly. Maybe there is something mentally bothering him. I’m not in his mind, though. Good that he went to Turin to do the checks,” the German added later, referring to the checks Sinner underwent at J-Medical, the sports medicine center adjacent to Allianz Stadium.

Despite the disappointment of what happened in Paris, Jannik Sinner nevertheless chose to turn the page, taking a few days off after his medical checkups ahead of the season on grass.

Indeed, his next goal is to excel at the Wimbledon tournament, where last year he emerged victorious by beating friend-rival Carlos Alcaraz in four sets, in a comeback.