Last year, the theme held sway after a couple of incredible slips precisely at Halle, where he has now triumphed as world number 1. They had been his own colleagues wondering how he does it, Jannik Sinner, to slide like this on the grass. Twelve months later, having returned to play on the green surface, the topic is back in the news: what is the secret? An explanation comes from Paolo Bertolucci, former tennis player and now commentator: “I’m an extra weapon. It is skiingof course,” he said.
“He also does them Djokovic and start doing them too Alcaraz. With two gifted legs with the same force you can slide to the right on one side and with the left to the other, but we didn’t, we slid with the right both to the right and to the left and we lost game timeso instead everything in frontal position: starting skiing was a great advantage”explained one of the four heroes of the Davis Cup from 1976.
Bertolucci also focused on the incredible Sunday for Italian tennis. In addition to Sinner’s success, in fact, there was also the triumph in doubles Simone Bolelli And Andrea Vavassori in the doubles tournament, also in Halle: “I have absolutely no memories of one double Italian like this, at least for the last 50 years. Much less on the grass.”
It is true that, he underlined, “this is adifferent grass compared to the one before, in short, here now it is quite possible play from behindbefore it was unthinkable own, or did serve and volley or you were just at home.” Also exceptional serenity And mental stability by Sinner: “But we already knew this, it’s his way of behaving, his way of understanding. Let’s hope we deserve it.”
