There is not only the solitude of the first numbers, there is also the fragility of the numbers one. To the world as in this case. Yes because Sinner is not only a great champion but is also the number one of his category, tennis, in the official world ranking.
Last year, a bit of fading and an obstacle that seemed to be an obsession, an always wrong intersection of destiny: Carlos Alcaraz. He was winning with everyone, but he always lost with him. Then the revolution, mental and technical, and in recent months all, including black beast, but all bowed to this machine of victory called Jannik Sinner.
Italian, it is enough now to argue about its linguistic and fiscal Italianity, Italian we said that it brings Italy to the peaks of the Olympus of sport. And now sociologists and economists move. Excluded our national for the third consecutive time from the World Cup, our football pays pledge. On the induced, on the overall brand, on the fascination between young people, as protagonists and as recipients.
The Tennis Federation is now very rich and boys on boys, on the push of this Gold Generation led by Sinner, line up to enroll in schools. I still don’t imagine people beating their fists on the training tables as I saw as a kid in the country bars, but… be careful that the world is changing quickly.
But let’s go back to our focus. After the triumphs of Rome, red hair was about limestone as a king also the brown land of Roland Garros, another mythical tournament in the universal world of the racket. But be careful, gentlemen, playing noon with climate change is a problem.
In Paris as in all Europe yesterday they touched peaks of 40 degrees. Too hot to be at the end of May. Too much. And our third set with a normal rival, such Cerúndolo, too normal it is true that he was winning the first two sets in looseness, went suddenly in tilt.
Black hole, blackout of mind and body. I have to throw up, he said, and then the tension with his coach… just leave me… and then my hands in the hair. Break, return to the field and defeat in the other three sets as an ordinary pipe.
Doctors speak of Exertional Heat Illness, more than a malaise, tachycardia, hypotension and gastroenteric symptoms such as vomiting. Historians recall episodes similar to many other athletes also in other sports: Yuri Chechi, Tamberi, Bubka, Riva. Then there are those who say that the money is so many but you play too much. Stress, logo. All true.
But I only care about one thing: the fragility of Homo sapiens is also its greatness. His rebellion to the predictable routine of algorithms. The soul and being take revenge against victory. You are human Jannik and therefore even greater. Applause like when you raise the cups. This is the cup of the laws of life. The most important.
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