Paul’s cry and Hadrian’s new prophecy about Jannik

Jannik Sinner triumphs and those two “crazy people” of Paolo Bertolucci and Adriano Panatta laugh live. Divided in the commentary – one on Sky, the other on Rai – but united by happiness for the new, sensational feat of the red team from San Candido, the two protagonists of the blue success in Davis in 1976 are literally went crazy during and after the ATP Finals finalin Turin. Sinner champion of the Masters for the first time, in the first “home” triumph of his career.

Sinner beats Fritz, Bertolucci celebrates

Already in the last exchanges of the final with Fritz, Bertolucci began to get excited. After an epic point from Jannik – yet another – the almost inevitable cry arose: “Come on, come on!”. And again: “But what did he do? What did he do.” Joy, amazement and admiration, moreover, shared with his commentary partner, Luca Boschetto. More Bertolucci’s analysis at the end of the match was serious: “He takes us to the moon with him. We have found a prophet. This success is of inestimable value for Italian sport and for tennis. There is no objective that is closed to him and if he doesn’t succeed, he would still come close.”

Panatta is also over the moon for Jannik

On Rai, however, Panatta’s joy: “Sinner shoots much harder than Federer and Nadal, but also than Fritz and the others. The evolution of tennis is moving towards the violence of all shots.” And also: “Jannik really takes away your desire to play. Serena Williams told me she would have liked to have Sinner’s forehand and I told her ‘no look, better the backhand’. It’s much better, I assure you. The forehand makes more of an impression, but he never misses with his backhand“. It’s not over: “In the final he played a perfect match. The only fear was Fritz’s serve and instead Jannik did better than him and in one hour and 24 minutes he closed the game.”

Sinner, Panatta’s (new) prophecy appears

Famous for his “prophecies”, all of which were correct, Panatta then predicted Jannik’s unbeaten record at Domenica Sportiva: “I said jokingly that it would be useful to look for an opponent in another galaxy, there is no one on Earth who can worry him. In these 50 years of tennis I have never seen such evident excessive power over my opponents. Sinner simply cannot lose also because he has extraordinary nervous stability for his age. And it still has room for improvement. He hasn’t missed a set, to me he’s an alien and comes from another galaxy. We deserve someone like this, sometimes it shocks me when I see it: his violence is not human.”