Sinner without shame: the unexpected gesture shocks social media

In recent days, Sinner has done something absolutely unexpected: so his confession left the fans stunned.

It seems easy, perhaps even obvious, but it’s not even a little bit. This is demonstrated by the fact that in the Open era only 7 champions, before him, succeeded in the same feat as him. That is, to win the first tournament played as world number 1. Like Connors, Borg, Wilander, Edberg, Sampras, Djokovic and Murray, therefore, also Jannik Sinner he did it.

There was a time when it seemed that he wasn’t particularly familiar with grass, but the victory at the ATP 500 in Halle definitively disproved this theory. Which means that his opponents must now start to fear him also on the green fields of Europe and no longer just on hard courts or clay. Having taken this into account, practically anything could happen at Wimbledon, so much so that bookmakers place him as the second favorite to win, trailing only Carlos Alcaraz.

It will still be a while before we find out which opponents he will face at the All England Club (the main draw draw is scheduled for Friday at 11am Italian time, ed), but in the meantime there is another issue that is taking center stage and entertaining the fans of the Italian champion.

Sinner keeps a laughable “secret” in his smartphone

In recent days, during one of the many interviews in which Jannik has been the protagonist lately, the tennis player indulged in a completely unexpected confession. A revelation which, as can clearly be seen from the comments, shocked, in the true sense of the word, the people of social media.

The world number 1 told his foreign interviewers about the time he met the President of the Republic at the Quirinale, Sergio Mattarella. He had gone to the top of the Hill, as the Azzurri fans will remember, to celebrate the victory of the Davis Cup, and with him were all his teammates. There was a festive atmosphere in the room, therefore, but the climax was reached when the South Tyrolean reached the lectern to say a few words.

In that moment, after having met the gaze of his friend Lorenzo Sonego, burst out laughing, amusing the president himself, who had understood the young man’s embarrassment. Well, several months have passed since that little scene, but Jannik he revealed in the interview that he jealously guards the video on his smartphone of when he burst out laughing in Mattarella’s face. The confession left the fans stunned, amused by his irony and by the fact that, instead of being “ashamed”, so to speak, he tells everyone about it. Other fun facts: from the clip it is clear that it was Sonego himself who sent him the offending video in chat, which suggests how much the other Azzurri made fun of him for that episode.