Tennis arrives in Rome and now everything is more special than it used to be, because the circuit has been filled with great Italian players. Any tournament, even the most important, takes a special color when it is with local talent: The stands are a little more bullangueras, flags appear out of nowhere, the media of the country are seen more illusion in the press zones …
In the Italic forum, Musetti or Paolini will be discussed, but above all of them, with much difference, the name of Jannik Sinner will appear. Because he is one of the best Italian tennis players of all time, the largest reference of the circuit with Carlos Alcaraz, number 1 and, along with all that, the player who has plunged into a sea of doubts to the circuit after having tested positive per clostebol.
This Monday will train against Leheckka, something that has not been able to do in months because His sanction covered from February 3 to this last Sunday May 4. He timing From his departure from the circuit it is one of those things that the fan who suspects leads him to think about a certain pastel, because he was agreed and agreed that no Grand Slam was lost and the quote from Rome is not lost either.
He returns at home and, predictably, in the smell of crowds, even though the return is not of any injury or some type of personal problem, but of a blur in his history, because a positive that ends in sanction never ceases to be that in some way. It matters little that many do not believe that you have to receive between applause, because the public is sovereign and is not usually very concerned about these things.
You just have to read the presentation that the tournament has made to announce your first training on the track, which can see all those who buy the entrance to the Italic forum. “The rivals fear it, the world awaits itRome hugs it. Jannik Sinner will arrive on Sunday, May 4 and Monday 5 will be at the Center for Care, in the center of the tenistic world, “explains the tournament website.
“It will be worth the walking ticket for Make Jannik feel, who will play in Rome his first title after his second consecutive victory in the Open of Australia, all the heat of the Italian public“They continue.
And if what they are looking for is some more criticism, because they do not wait for it, the tournament decided to surrender to the star and even juggled so as not to name the reason for their recent absence: “It will be an event, a special moment, a end and a new start for the first world. The first after three months of forced stop“. That forced stop, although the championship obvie, was for having been sanctioned by doping.
The rivals have not rebelled
Sinner has been able to look at these two months with little concern, because if what he expected was that his rivals took a step forward and placed face … Well, it has not happened. Alcaraz now is injured and in Miami already shipwrecked, Zverev is not to show off the last three months of his career, Djokovic or the ranking is raised … The only real appearance at this time has been Jack Draper, who has taken the opportunity to give an acceleration before the general inaction of the male circuit.
The Italian, logically, has seen how his point of points fell significantly – from 11,830 to 9,730 he will have this Monday – but what less with two months was. Zverev has 8,085, which are less than he had in February; Alcaraz 7.850, only 340 more than he added in those days. Too many mistakes, physical and tenistic problems to have bcompulted Sinner’s predominant position.
A person related to the Madrid tournament assumed him with some parsimony these days in a press corrillo. The mutual problem has not been, of course, the organization, not even bad luck, the issue is that right now male tennis is somewhat undressthere is a catate of players who have neither the charisma nor the game that is expected of the best. It is, perhaps, a period of interwar, a moment in which the two best remain unstable and of others cannot be expected to dominate.
At that time of lack of control, tennis appreciates the return of Sinner, despite the regrets. Because with him they have someone who fills the posters, who plays a lot and that allows you to sell tickets and accumulate people in front of the TV. As much as many can no longer see him as anything other than a villain, that villain is the one who can put a little order in the circuitthe feeling in each tournament that will play to win it.
And, although it may sound contraintuitive, fans prefer that there are great dominators to chaos and anarchy. The tennis was more with Agassi and Sampras of what was later when the Roddick, Hewitt, Ferrero … It goes without saying that later the thing was even bigger when Federer, Nadal and Djokovic arrived.
Tennis, sport in general, lives for most of its stars than of its middle class, and Those who represent that nobility right now, at least in the male painting, are Sinner and Alcaraz. Well, and Djokovic, but his thing is necessarily another story.
The Italic forum is one of those places where tennis is really tennis. The beautiful space, with its marbles and the megalomania of fascist architecture, has been hosting a special tournament for many years, which All players also love because it is the most helps to the transition to Roland Garros. Things to play at sea level.
Maybe that’s why Carlos Alcaraz is doing his best to play, because it is always better to get to Paris with a few kilometers traveled and certain sensations. Even more now that Sinner has already returned and he does not allow probaturas. It is true, the Italian is not a slow clue player, it costs him much more to play at home than in other places, but it is still the great generational rival.
In fact, the Bolzano player has never won a great tournament in beaten land, but it is also true that it seems closer. If you get the challenge in Rome, it will also end with a bad streak of its compatriots, they have only achieved a victory there in the male team, that of Adriano Panatta in 1976. That is why many, many will have any problem in encouraging you if you will win: they have been waiting for something like that.
