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The new Munar reads Plutarch, fights for the middle class and rebels against the super-rich

Tennis aligns itself with other major sports that are world leaders in terms of audience and business, from football to basketball, and works for a super League, of a few, super, events, reserved for the stars. More and more paid and spoiled. But, while Novak Djokovic disappears, together with his alternative union, PTPA, happy to earn what could be the last, lavish earnings of his career, the peons of the ATP Tour start the counterattack with Jaume Munar, the character with the stigmata of “campesinos”, from the face to the CV, to the attitudes to the reputation on the pitch. Who shouts out a trade unionist slogan from a union that no longer exists in modern society. “We work as hard as the top players, if not harder.”Clay proudly told the magazine.

BUILT PLAYER

After the 2014 Roland Garros junior final lost to Rublevthis Spaniard not very tall (1.83), without power and without the knockout blow but with lungs and hocks of steel he has only now reached the record ranking of 33 in the world at the age of 28 among professionals. After his first important season he ended as a protagonist, leading the Red Furies – orphans of Alcaraz – to the decisive Davis Cup match against Italy.

Happy, finally confident, for having overcome his main psychological problem, and therefore the control of his nerves and emotions, after learned to accept situations on the pitch and react in the right waywithout anger and provocative attitudes towards the public and the opponent, emptying himself of the decisive psycho-physical energies. “That emotional instability that I often had over the seasons has vanished. Accepting mistakes much more was the most difficult part. I am very self-critical and sometimes too hard on myself. It took me years to understand why I put so much pressure on myself.”

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