The Italian tennis sensation and world number one speaks to Esquire
I meet Jannik Sinner at a hotel in Monte Carlo. The day is gloomy, windy. He shows up in tennis kit, a bit intimidated, perhaps, but with a ready wit. I tell him he seems taller than the last time we met. “Or maybe you, as you got older, got smaller,” he says. On his wrist he has his Rolex GMT-Master II, with a black-and-brown bezel.
When Simone Vagnozzi came to my team, he gave me seven to eight pieces of information per game. I honestly didn’t understand anything. He told me: “Every now and then you make a slice.” But I didn’t know how to do it, so we made a lot of changes. It’s a shot I don’t even do technically correct, because I hold the racket with two hands. Still, I feel more confident with it. Simone is good because we talk a lot and he doesn’t impose rules on me.
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