The decision on the part of Jannik Sinner to skip the Internazionali BNL d’Italia: the Italian has decided to preserve himself in view of the next events and in particular Roland Garros due to the hip problem suffered during the Madrid tournament.
The Sky commentator, collaborator for the French federation and former world number 3 Ivan Ljubicic spoke regarding this situation on Sky Sport 24: “Jannik doesn’t come to Rome to make an appearance or just for a match, same reasoning for Alcaraz. These champions play these tournaments if they think they can win it, then obviously we are close to Roland Garros, Wimbledon is around the corner, the Olympics immediately after, so in this period in my opinion the players are very attentive and more sensitive than usual to any problems, we actually saw many retirements in Madrid.”
According to the Croatian, it is also the evolution of the game that pushes towards precaution: “Tennis becomes more and more physical, players move better and better and hit harder and harder, so at a certain point the body says enough or it no longer follows what you want. What Jannik feels today seems to me to be not a serious thing, but he is also looking a little ahead and therefore it is important to preserve himself. It is normal for the change of surface from concrete to clay to cause some discomfort and lead to some problems with the hips, shoulder or elbow because the balls are heavier and there is more humidity. A player like Jannik or Carlos wants to be at 100% to play the tournament“.
