Simone Vagnozzi compares Jannik Sinner to Valentino Rossi

Simone Vagnozzi: "Jannik Sinner as Valentino Rossi"

Simone Vagnozzi, Jannik Sinner’s coach, gave an interview to 'La Repubblica' in which he talked about his student’s latest achievements. "The thing that makes me the happiest è being able in two years to win a Slam and reach this ranking,” he admitted. I don’t like to talk about myself, but I never had any doubt that this was the right path to take".

"The credit goes, of course, to the whole team,” added the coach of the Highlander: Umberto Ferrara è a first-rate trainer who, if he were a foreigner, would be on the pedestal as a genius, instead è 'only' Italian. Then Darren Cahill, with his resume. Finally, Giacomo Naldi. For my part, I have always been considered young, and this è the thing that drives me crazy at 40: we talk so much about giving opportunities to young people, and then if they succeed they get criticism".

So he compared Jannik Sinner to Valentino Rossi: "It’s becoming a little bit like with Valentino Rossi and Alberto Tomba and I don’t think it’s just about the results, but also about the boy. Of the’example he sets. Jannik’s simplicity è is contagious, he makes people love him, so è a good thing. I’ve experienced it that way, but you can see that there’s a beautiful air: the fact that a simple boy is seen by so’many kids, very young, in my opinion è beautiful".

"Becauseé they do not see Jannik as someone unreachable. The message Jannik sends to kids è that if you work in the right direction you can achieve dreams" concluded Vagnozzi.