After skipping the 2024 Paris Olympics, Jannik Sinner trained for a week in Canada and made his debut at the Montreal Masters 1000. World number 1 – who is defending his title won in Toronto last year – has defeated Croatian ace Borna Coric 6-2 6-4 in a fairly dominated match.
The Italian ace has a great chance to win his third Masters 1000, since Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz and Serbian Novak Djokovic are missing in Canada, who are resting after the beautiful final at the Paris Olympics. The Canadian Open has already had to suffer several famous eliminations such as those of Daniil Medvedev (beaten by Alejandro Davidovich Fokina), Stefanos Tsitsipas (beaten by Kei Nishikori), Tommy Paul (defeated by Brandon Nakashima) and Felix Auger-Aliassime (defeated by Flavio Cobolli).
The Australian Open 2024 champion is the big favourite for the win in Montreal, but he will have to express a great tennis to avoid bad surprises. Sinner’s main goal is to finish the year at the top of the ATP ranking, perhaps winning the US Open in late August. Jannik will have to defend himself against Carlos Alcaraz, as Novak Djokovic is no longer interested in this goal. The Serbian champion will also miss the Masters 1000 in Cincinnati and arrive at the US Open without having played any preparation tournament.
Sinner was so criticized
Jannik Sinner has been widely criticized for his choice to miss the 2024 Paris Olympics because of a tonsillitis. After his win over Borna Coric in Montreal, the Italian ace spoke about criticism received in his country: “Missing the Games is a huge disappointment as it was one of my main goals for this season. I couldn’t wait to have the honour of representing my country in this very important event. I think only my team and I really know how I felt. From the outside it’s one thing, from the inside it’s another. I especially know how I felt.
I had said since the beginning of the year that my biggest goal was the Paris Olympics, but unfortunately I wasn’t even able to get out of bed. Then honestly, what people think… let’s say I give it little importance, little weight. I’m not on social media anymore, which is something that does me a lot of good.
Then I read some things anyway, it’s obvious that when you open your phone there are notifications and I see something. But I also know who I am as a person and what kind of people I have around me — who all care a lot about me. Unfortunately this time it went like this, there will always be some good things and some a little bit worse, like this. I understand people’s reaction, I’m honest, but now I’m here in Montreal and what happened happened.”
Jannik has improved so much
Sinner has accomplished many things in the last year and showed an uncommon mental strength. The importance of the mental aspect in tennis told through the epic matches of its protagonists. This is the main theme of the new book Sinner Nadal Federer Djokovic – 24 games to get into the heads of champions and enhance your mental tennis, the volume-essay written by former player and now psychiatrist Christophe Bernelle in collaboration with Arnaud Ramsay.
A fascinating journey through the matches that have marked the recent past, revisiting the memorable comebacks and the preying tests of strength. The essay by Bernelle is a valuable volume for fans of racket and tennis. An analysis of how in this sport the mental aspect is as fundamental as the technical one, that tells how also a game that seems by now directed can turn in a moment and be turned over. To analyze these themes, the author takes as reference the strongest tennis players of recent times, telling their most iconic matches.
Among the 24 matches described in the book, the comeback of 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic in the final of Wimbledon 2019 against Roger Federer, the performance of the Swiss champion in the first round of the Australian Open 2017 and the test of strength of Rafael Nadal in the semi-final of the Australian Slam 2009. Among the protagonists of the essay also the two main protagonists of Italian tennis: 2021 Wimbledon finalist Matteo Berrettini, who became at Wimbledon in 2021 the first Italian to play a final at Grand Slam level and the current World number one Jannik Sinner, of which are revisited emotions and thoughts of his unforgettable final won at the 2024 Australian Open.
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