Jannik Sinner’s debut on red at altitudeATP Masters 1000 Iberian was presented In the new daily appointment on the OA Sport YouTube channel with TennisMania Special Madrid Openin which Dario PuppoEurosport journalist, also spoke about the defeat suffered yesterday by Lorenzo Musetti.
On the behavior of Lorenzo Musetti seen yesterday on the pitch: “I want to say this, because I wrote a small post, saying that I find a lot of negativity in what he shows on the pitch and he must remove this negativity. ‘Against me they are all phenomena’, he has already said it many times in the past, it is not the first time he has said it, so it is not a question of criticizing him now, because actually on red at the start of the season, which then is already an important part of the clay court season, which is even more important for him, given that he expresses himself at his best on this surface, he lost three of the four tournaments in the first round, and he had a good tournament in Monte Carlo, winning a couple of games. However he also played a good tournament in Miami“.
The attitudes to be corrected: “The point is that it’s an attitude that you can’t hear even from a kid who plays junior tournaments, because you really have to be able to free yourself from these things beforehand. Lorenzo was an excellent player as a junior, he had a rather important career as a junior. I don’t know if his negativity comes out with certain opponents, more so in certain situations. I don’t know this, but I believe that it is even more important to work on these things, rather than on those technical problems that may exist, and are linked to the fact, which many have remarked again, how he disappeared from the camera to try to answer. Those are certainly other things that need to be sorted out, but in my opinion they are consequences, more than of his creating alibis, of losing already on his own, because he has fears, in my opinion, I don’t want to get into petty psychology, but I think he fears not being able to express the best version of himself, is a fear that he already has, but also with respect to the expectations of others, because he has that type of game“.
Sometimes the criticisms leveled at Musetti, however, are excessive: “I don’t think it’s easy to play with this thought, so I don’t want to find excuses in Lorenzo’s other behaviors, which are wrong, however, I repeat, I wouldn’t be so ready to talk about it and say these things if we didn’t start from a discussion very banal, I think it’s clear that this is a boy who, in any case, I think is a very good boy, he has some defects, some situations that are certainly not good, but he knows it first, it’s evidently not easy to correct certain things, but he is still very young. However, in general I would wait to produce comments that are exaggerated, that is, there is criticism, but not that it is going to be excessive“.
Changing the subject, the possibility has long been discussed that Jannik Sinner was Italy’s flag bearer in Paris 2024: “The visibility that the Tricolore would have had with Sinner as standard bearer has no equal with any other athlete, at an international level I say, at an Italian level it is still the same thing, but it is absolutely legitimate Tamberi with Arrigo, they are doing very well, but everyone would have talked about it how many abroad, the big newspapers, the televisions, because Sinner is producing this effect“.
