As for Jannik, who arrived yesterday at lunchtime, the pattern is the usual: rented house in Wimbledon with the team (Vagnozzi joins Cahill after a short holiday), very few distractions, eyes focused on the goal. Winning Wimbledon as world number one it would make a quantum leap in the status of the Italian who is rewriting the laws of tennis.
The parallel weeks of Halle and Queen’s, with Sinner and Musetti finalists on a surface traditionally hostile to our tradition, once again underline the golden moment of a generation which, at this point, sets no limits for itself. «I’m not the favorite. I’m one of the Wimbledon favourites,” Jannik said with the usual understatement, on the green (29 career matches, 19 victories) he made his game even more lean and essential, raising his batting percentageswhich in London will be the lever to try to open the safe.
How Sinner’s game changes on grass
With 91.3% of service games won and an average of 6.8 aces per match dominates the seasonal statistics of the ATP, and is also growing in return numbers: in Halle, not surprisingly, before the final with Hurkacz (great hitter capable of serving at 243 km per hour: peak speed recorded in Davis), Cahill asked Jannik’s sparring serve well inside the line at the back of the pitch, so that the student could get used to the heaviness of the ball.
The grass of Wimbledon is not that of Halle. In Church Road since 2001 only perennial English ryegrass has been sown, shaving 8 millimeters compared to the previous 6, considered more resistant and reliable in rebounding than the mixture of seeds used before.
Sinner will treat him as if he were fast outdoors: the usual violence with the precautions in moving and the low knees required by the surface on which one plays the least. Jannik now knows the dynamics between top players, he makes pre-tactics: «If he’s well, the favorite remains Djokovic». Self.
