In recent years the advent of social media has revolutionized the world of technology and has also fully entered the sports scene. If we think about tennis, Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer have lived through totally different eras compared to today’s champions and paradoxically have not had to deal with the technological pressure to which every athlete is subjected.
Anyone who watches social media notices that under the tennis players’ comments there are positive and negative words. After a defeat, the athlete often has to deal with insults, unkind words and generally hostile attitudes. In Italy many, even in the lower categories, have complained about this situation and in recent days these insults have had a new protagonist.
VIP fans or not, many had only one person in their sights: we are talking about the chair umpire Aurelie Tourtereferee of the much discussed semi-final between our Jannik Sinner and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas.
The chair umpire made a serious mistake to the detriment of the Italian athlete, an error that cost the Italian tennis player 5 to 1 and in fact the match: shortly after Jannik was hit by cramps and suffered the Greek comeback with Tsitsipas who first tied things and then closed with the result 6 to 4.
‘Well, open up!’, at the end of the much discussed match a shower of controversy broke out over the match, the Italian fans accused everywhere, both on the social networks of Italian sites (including ours) and on the ATP social profiles and everyone attacked the ‘poor’ Tourte heavily, even with insults.
Paradoxically, Sinner himself was accused of not being very smart, of not stopping immediately to check. And now there are a couple of things to say: first of all Jannik by stopping would have lost the point, on a break point, and therefore perhaps he wasn’t completely certain of the referee’s error, secondly Jannik is different from the others, he has demonstrated already in the past.
Remember when everyone suggested the ‘biscuit’ with Djokovic’s elimination in Turin? Sinner is not like that, he doesn’t think this way and he is proving it in every way. Post-match Sinner commented: “What do I think about that mistake? Well, it happened.
Nothing can be done now and as far as I’m concerned it’s already the past. I mean, yes, it’s hard to accept and it’s hard to digest also because at one point I was playing great tennis.
Everything was going in the right direction, even from a tactical point of view, but then everyone can make mistakes, unfortunately or fortunately. I too can make mistakes and these things happen, that’s how it happened.”.
That’s right, everyone can make mistakes and this also applies to a chair umpire. Sinner wanted to remind all of us, he wanted to remind those who insult on social media (who are not very appreciated by Jannik among other things), those who try to bring the support of other sports to tennis and always say ‘mine is better’ and in any case, an annoying and always clear mantra on social media.
In short, Sinner wanted to remind us all of this with a single gesture, a lesson on tennis and how to interpret this magnificent sport.
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