Fabio Fognini direct on Jannik Sinner: "Taken to the wall, but now…"
Fabio Fognini is back to talk about Jannik Sinner after the U.S. Open final he lost to Carlos Alcaraz: the Ligurian tennis player did not mince words when talking about the Azzurro, who lost the number one spot in the ATP rankings after 65 weeks and is on the hunt for redemption. “Jannik was crystal clear in his analysis after the Us Open. He said ‘I have become predictable, I have to get out of the comfort zone to find solutions again’. On a mental level from a 24-year-old guy it makes you think, it shows how he sees things clear”.
“He knows he has been taken to ‘balls’ and now he has to get out of the comfort zone and do something different next time in order to beat him. They will entertain us – said Fognini on Alessandro Cattelan’s Supernova broadcast – Then as you know in Italy if you win you are a phenomenon, if you lose, like the other day, they start dotting the i”.
Sinner and Alcaraz are marking an’era: “They remind me of Federer and Nadal in my era. Sinner is ‘square’. I played with Seppi, didn’t I? I called him ‘Kraut’ because from over the mountains. He was half German, half Italian, you couldn’t tell. And Jannik is like that, square”.
“While Alcaraz seems to be enjoying himself. I watched his documentary, he says that after the games he goes to Ibiza to have fun, and to me he conveys just that. Alcaraz is someone who has fun and needs it off the field. I was more like that”.
