Jannik Sinner - only the best as a training partner
Jannik Sinner was one of the promoters of the 2019 tennis year. The constant improvement of the South Tyrolean is also related to the quality of his training partners. Coach Ricardo Piatti is now trying to find an arrangement with Rafael Nadal .
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Jun 09, 2020, 07:21 am
Jannik Sinner is used to dealing with prominent colleagues: after the South Tyrolean had been training in the academy of star coach Ricardo Piatti for a long time, encounters with Borna Coric or Maria Sharapova have not been uncommon in recent years. With the Russian resigning in early 2020, Sinner also published a moody Christmas video on social media towards the end of 2019, no trace of fear of contact. But these were all home games, so to speak, the apprentice should now go on a journey to pick up his master's certificate elsewhere: After several top players are in Monte Carlo anyway, Piatti wants to arrange a meeting with Rafael Nadal there.
Piatti said that he had already brought Sinner to Patrick Mouratoglou's academy near Nice, where his protégé had trained with Stefanos Tsitsipas and Alexei Popyrin. "Now Alexander Zverev and Stan Wawrinka are coming to Monte Carlo. I have already spoken to Carlos Moya because we also want to go to Monte Carlo." Moya is known to be Rafael Nadal's coach, who this year lost the chance to win his twelfth title in the Principality. In any case, Piatti would not be averse to exercise sessions for Sinner with Nadal. "He can learn from measuring himself against better players. Jannik now had a lot of time to work on his physique. In particular, he tried to improve the shoulder rotation when serving."
Sinner in exhibition fight with Thiem and Zverev
Under competition conditions, Sinner could demonstrate its development for the first time between July 13 and 15 in Berlin. The 18-year-old is part of an exhibition fight tournament with Alexander Zverev , Dominic Thiem and Nick Kyrgios . The course of the season up to the preliminary termination due to the corona pandemic was not 100% satisfactory for Sinner. Although he reached the quarter-finals of the ATP Tour 500 tournament in Rotterdam, the Australian Open brought Marton Fucsovics out of round two. However, the appearance in Melbourne was only the second in Jannik Sinner's career in the main field with a major. It premiered last year at the US Open in New York City. After successfully qualifying, Sinner lost to Stan Wawrinka in round one.
In any case, coach Piatti is very confident about the future career of his student. "Jannik only played three days a week before he was 14 years old. He is still in a maturation phase that apparently lasts for three years. He still has a lot of tennis ahead of him. He has enormous opportunities to vary the rhythm , there is also a technically very good volleyball. Obviously he has a lot of good things in his game and a few bad ones. In matches where it doesn't go according to plan he is very frustrated. This mentality will change over the years. But we can already say that Sinner is on the right track to do great things in this sport. "