Emma Marrone squeezes in between Jannik Sinner and Adriano Panatta, her father’s idol. And on Alcaraz…

Emma Marrone also spoke about tennis during a long interview granted to Gazzetta dello Sport. “I greatly respect Jannik Sinner – she emphasized -He has the merit of having rekindled attention to tennis, a sport I love. When I was a child, my father used to tell me about Panatta’s “veronicas” and make me watch his matches; in addition to music, he passed on to me his passion for the racket. I was recently at the Finals in Turin, where I saw Jannik beat Alcaraz”.

“Of that match I was so impressed by the mutual esteem between the two contenders – added the 2012 Sanremo Festival winner -. They are humble champions who respect each other so much. And then the grave silence of the audience: there was a palpable tension. At the end of the match I came out of the facility sweaty, as if I had played myself”.

Adriano Panatta, unleashed on Dancing with the Stars with his former colleague and friend Paolo Bertolucci, was once again asked about Sinner, who ended the year by winning the ATP Finals in Turin. “Sinner is a phenomenon, I don&#8217t think Jannik is human, he comes from another planet, another constellation, it&#8217s not normal what he does”.

The’former tennis player in an interview with Radio Deejay had also revealed that he had met the Blue only on a couple of occasions: “Maybe Bertolucci knows him a little bit’ more, I will have seen him twice in my life, just… What did we say to each other? Hello hello, how are you, good good. That&#8217s all we said to each other, me and Sinner”. The South Tyrolean tennis player won for the third consecutive year the ATP ‘Fans’ Favourite’ award, reserved for the’favorite athlete of all the fans in the world. Not even the Clostebol affair and fierce criticism on social media from various haters have dented the dominance of the Friulian champion, who had also won the award in 2024 and 2023.