Mats Wilander, who was ATP No.1 for 20 weeks, praised Jannik Sinner’s enhancements by drawing a parallel together with his profession. The previous Swedish legend, analyzing the Italian’s performances, emphasised that Jannik did what he ought to have finished in his profession:
“Jannik is the proper instance to explain the second of Italian tennis. He has an important angle and works actually onerous. He’s persevering with to develop his sport even when he’s #1 on this planet,” he informed Tennis Television.
Prepared for the QF ⌛️🦊pic.twitter.com/hivUq3zWis
— Janniksin_Updates (@JannikSinner_Up) September 4, 2024
Going into element about some technical features that the younger Italian has improved particularly in current instances, Wilander analyzed:
“Jannik continues to develop, to serve & volley over the last matches. He additionally chooses to play drop pictures: so he’s doing every thing that I ought to have finished after I grew to become primary on this planet, however I settled down and thought I used to be on the high. I believed I couldn’t go down anymore, and as an alternative I went down. He understood that he can nonetheless enhance, at the same time as primary. I feel he ought to keep there and for me he’ll do it. As a result of he has way more pure expertise than we thought.”
13 weeks in the past Sinner achieved a historic consequence for Italian tennis, turning into #1 within the ATP world rating. A purpose by no means reached by any Italian tennis participant. Jannik, who will stay on the high of the rating at the very least till October 27, will have the ability to enhance the variety of weeks even additional if he have been to transcend the quarterfinals on the US Open. What is for certain is that the work ethic of the younger Italian is one in every of his robust factors, which has pushed him to consistently enhance and in addition fill some gaps that he had on the age of a few of his friends.
Night time matches in New York are at all times particular, blissful to be within the QF’s of @usopen. Forza 💪🏼 pic.twitter.com/BLYcZP7Dyl
— Jannik Sinner (@janniksin) September 3, 2024