Welcome back. The world's strongest tennis player, Jannik Sinner, becomes a free athlete again at midnight, regaining the right to perform publicly after a three-month ban .
Sinner had not digested well the decision of his legal team to negotiate a lesser sentence with the World Anti-Doping Agency, Wada, for the Clostebol case . An agreement that had avoided going to trial at the CAS, the Court of Arbitration for Sport, but that – objectively – had been a shouldering of responsibility for the negligence and lack of attention of a part of his team.
Sinner, who has left all of this behind him, will train on Monday at 7pm at the Centrale del Foro Italico, the heart of the Internazionali BNL di Roma, the Italian Masters 1000 which is about to get into full swing with the first round .
The wait is feverish, the tickets for tomorrow's training - about 10,500 have flown by in a few hours, costing 19 euros - will give the Italian public the chance to welcome Sinner back, making him immediately understand how much tennis lovers, old and new, love the number 1. Today the transfer from Monte Carlo, a private flight takes him from Nice to Fiumicino around 1 pm, then accommodation in a hotel not far from the Forum and then the reunion with the other Italian winners of the 2024 Davis Cup.
The Foro Italico, polished like never before, presents itself in its best attire to welcome the world number 1 on his return. For the first time, Italian tennis can celebrate its most important tournament by fielding an Italian as the strongest athlete, according to the ATP ranking. Another masterpiece by the Cagliari president of the Federtennis, Angelo Binaghi, at the top of a movement that can also boast another player, Lorenzo Musetti, in the top ten in the world . The anticipation is extraordinary, welcome back Jannik.
