Sinner’s father recently started traveling with his son to some tournaments but the family, which also includes Sinner’s adopted brother Marc, did not go to Australia. Nicknamed “Jan the Fox” since he was a school kid, Sinner was an accomplished junior ski racer and his parents worked in a ski lodge where his father was a chef and his mom was a waitress. The list is likely to grow and become even more lucrative now. His other sponsors include: Head, Gucci, Lavazza, Rolex, Alfa Romeo and Parmigiano Reggiano. It might have been a bigger celebration but the town is in mourning after a mother and two children were recently killed in an auto accident.Īccording to the Gazzetta, Sinner already earns 25 million euros ($27 million) per year from a large array of sponsors led by Nike. In Sinner’s tiny hometown of Sesto (population 1,860) near the Austrian border, about 70 people gathered inside the two-court indoor tennis facility where Sinner first played to watch the final. “Italy is on top of the tennis world,” said 90-year-old Nicola Pietrangeli, the only other Italian man to win a Grand Slam singles title, having won the 19 French Opens. There were almost two more trophies to bring but Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori lost the Australian Open men’s doubles final to Rohan Bopanna and Matt Ebden on Saturday. The Davis Cup team is due to be honored by Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella on Thursday, and now Sinner can bring along another trophy. The criticism quickly died down when Sinner went on his late season tear and almost single-handedly earned Italy its first Davis Cup title since 1976 by beating Novak Djokovic in both singles and doubles in the semifinals against Serbia and then clinching the decisive singles point in the final against Australia. “Caso Nazionale” (National Issue), said the front-page of Sportweek, the Gazzetta dello Sport’s weekly magazine. Open - he was widely criticized with an underlying sentiment that he wasn’t fully Italian. When Sinner opted not to play Davis Cup for Italy in the September group phase - saying he hadn’t recovered in time from tournaments in North America, including the U.S. He left home for the Italian Riviera to train with Riccardo Piatti, now his former coach, at the age of 13. What’s different about Sinner from Rossi, Pantani and Tomba is that Sinner is from a German-speaking area of Italy. Not since Valentino Rossi was dominating motorcycle racing, Marco Pantani was the world’s top cyclist or Alberto Tomba was winning Olympic skiing medals has a non-soccer athlete gained so much attention in Italy. Kallio is replacing 2007 world champion Casey Stoner for three races due to the Australian's ongoing health problems.“And trust me, this is just the first of many Grand Slam finals,” said Flavia Pennetta, the last Italian woman to win a Grand Slam after beating compatriot Roberta Vinci in the 2015 U.S. Rounding out the top-10 on Saturday were De Angelis, Ducati's former world champion Nicky Hayden of the U.S., Italian Loris Capirossi on a Suzuki and Finland's Mika Kallio - despite a crash in his stint as a temporary stand-in rider for Ducati. The 27-year-old Melandri was runner-up in the world championship in 2005 but was less successful last year with Ducati and has done well with limited resources at Hayate this season. Toni Elias, who will not be retained by San Carlo Honda Gresini for next season, was fourth ahead of American former world champion Colin Edwards and young Italian Andrea Dovizioso.Įlias and Alex de Angelis will be replaced by Marco Simoncelli and his fellow Italian Marco Melandri, who returns to the team he raced for from 2005-07. Lorenzo, who set the fastest pace in Friday's practice session, was 0.05 seconds adrift with compatriot Dani Pedrosa third on his Repsol Honda 0.383s behind Rossi. We have a good race pace and I think it's possible to be competitive tomorrow." Anyway, we did a great job in the session and being on pole again is important. "I arrived to brake very deep and just lost the front, it was unlucky. Lorenzo pips Rossi in Czech MotoGP practice.
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