Jannik Sinner will not go to the Sanremo Festival . “I'll be cheering from home,” said the Australian Open champion. «It's a nice event, but I'm doing two days here in Rome after Australia and when I should go to Sanremo I'll already be working, and that's what I like to do. This is why I won't go to the Festival ", cut short the tennis player, who today was also nominated by Minister Tajani as ambassador of Italian sport in the world.

Yesterday the president of Fitp Angelo Binaghi had advised the South Tyrolean tennis player not to go to the Festival: « If he went it would be a disappointment. Everyone would go, but he is different and I speak against my interests, because Sinner in Sanremo would be a great promotion for us ", he said.

«Meloni told him that he should go – continued Binaghi – but Sinner must be protected by everyone: by the managers because he should not be exploited, by the journalists and also by Sanremo. I'll go bare-chested if necessary, but if we all want to write a different story together we have to protect it."

"We're sorry but we're rooting for you anyway", Amadeus' response to Sinner. «I didn't want to embarrass you, but watch the Festival and cheer for us» .

In the press conference Sinner spoke about many other things, including his residence in Monte Carlo : « The best thing about Monaco is that there are many players with whom you can train, the facilities are perfect. I feel at home there. I'm happy there, I have a normal life, I can go to the supermarket with zero problems . When I turned 18 I trained in Bordighera with my former coach who lived in Monaco."

A passage also on his relationship with social media: «I don't like them, I live better without them. And I tell the kids to be careful, because maybe today someone is sick but photos are posted on social media where everything is fine. Social media is not the truth, you see certain things but they are not the true ones."

(Unioneonline/L)