Jannik Sinner: surprising words from Nicola Pietrangeli

Nicola Pietrangeli surprises in an interview on Rai 3 in which he defended Jannik Sinner: the Italian tennis player had been criticized by Corrado Augias for his house in Monte Carlo. “These people talking don’t really know what’s what. There is a kind of pact. If, for example, Jannik Sinner wins a tournament in Hamburg, he pays the taxes that are paid in Germany, in the country where he earns the money, and that seems fair enough to me. If he then wants to live in Monte-Carlo or Timbuktu, that is his business”.

On the knockout against Carlos Alcaraz, Pietrangeli expressed himself this way: “Losing a final against Alcaraz is not so bad. In the sense that training is one thing and competition is another. It is not that he lost in the first round but in the final, moreover after playing a perfect first set in which he even had two set points. Afterwards it was evidently weighed by the absence from competition for three months, but it all”.

The’former Italian tennis player instead sent a dig at Adriano Panatta: “I never said I was stronger than him. All I am saying is that you have to see the career of a sportsman by results, not sympathy. I was told ‘do you know how many tournaments Panatta won?’ I didn’t, but I think it was 14 or 16. I, on the other hand, won 48, maybe not all of them first-tier, there is a little difference”.