Sinner, or the return of the myth
Jannik Sinner (Ansa)
The Sports Paper - THE PORTRAIT OF BONANZA
After three months of absence, the tennis player appears transformed: more mature, thoughtful, physically changed, almost mythical in the narrative that has surrounded him. Now it remains to be seen whether his tennis will live up to the legend that accompanies him
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I have the impression, watching it again and listening to it again, that Sinner is different, changed by these three months in which he was forced to stay out of tennis. His words are more courageous, his looks more incisive, and even his physique seems more massive. What will his tennis be like? While waiting for an answer that will come from the field, we can assume that his way of playing may also have changed. In the meantime his fame has grown, and it was not a given. The myth is born in the absence of, through the narration of the people that reaches our ears enriched with often imaginative details. The myth responds to the need to offer a credible answer to many mysteries, even existential ones. It is by following this path that we find Sinner/myth, whose deeds we appreciated and whose powers we understood for as long as he was there, without however discovering him to the full. And it took the absence, the discomfort of a sudden loss, almost a mourning for those who love sport, to get us to dig inside ourselves and look for some more explanation .
The people have spoken about him, but he has remained silent. In recent interviews he has made it clear that he was touched as a human being by what happened to him, and that he has learned something from it. What will have remained in his head from this unpleasant adventure that may have made him a different man? His competitive nature will certainly help him find himself quickly, but it is not so obvious that it will happen immediately, as if nothing had happened . The myth says that he put his racket away for a month, that he wandered with his head and body, wandering around the world, ending up in Sesto Pusteria, as if oriented by a biological compass that inevitably brought him back every time to the point where it all began. The myth says that he never watched even a minute of tennis on TV (but does TV exist for a myth?), that he did not even hear all the discordant rumors circulating about him, surprised by the lack of messages from those he considered friends.
The myth also says that the attention he paid to a beautiful woman was mistaken for love, as often happens in the annoying world of gossip. The myth finally tells that Sinner (pictured Getty) remained number 1 without playing, as if a spell had imprisoned the pretenders to the throne, victims, they really were, of a miraculous ointment. And these, in chains, did not have the strength to free themselves from their yoke. But what the myth does not say is that the destiny of such a special boy does not depend on the people, has nothing to do with fake correspondence and stolen images who knows where. No, his destiny is to remain imprinted in history regardless of all of us. Luckily for him.
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