Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Musetti have never been so high together and could not be more different. The beauty of tennis is that he knows how to be a different sport not how many champions playing it but almost. The beauty of Italian tennis is that it has been able to grow a nidiata of Under 25 champions who do not all play in the same way. Sinner and Musetti both in the quarterfinals of the Roland Garros as it had not happened since 1973 are the example.
There was a time when tennis, especially in American academies, made tennis players with the mold: in the mid -eighties many small small Chris Everts were born soon burned. The same Nick Bollettieri, legendary manufacturer of numbers one, often replicated similar models.
Jannik and Lorenzo are very different: the first emerges from a very young age thanks to precision, weight of granite ball in spite of a long and very exhibitioned physique, and an out of the ordinary mental resistance, the second overlooks the boy’s circuit with a background jewel in one hand as they no longer see and shines for creativity even if at least initially he struggles to keep the game in his mind. Eight months of difference Sinner turns 24 in August, Musetti turned 23 in March, number and one and number seven in the world, they are both growing a lot: Sinner is adding pieces of touch to his essential tennis that aims at the crossroads of the lines and often takes them, he added an effective short ball, the direct points with the service. And the flight game, although not a instinct, is acquiring more and more solidity. Musetti has stopped being satisfied with the beautiful feeling that gives a collage of successful magic strokes and is learning to resist patiently when the magic fail and when the game gets dirty on the field.
As they grow, Sinner approaches a little bit to muets, muets a little bit to sinner, each increases the tools in his own cassette, with the effect of enriching them both towards completeness.
Filippo Volandri Captain of Davis maintains that we have not yet seen the best Sinner or the best museums and most likely he is right: what is certain is that in this Roland Garros both Sinner and Musetti have done another step forward, whatever happens in the next few hours, and even if Sinner has already taken 52 weeks from number 1 and is showing a solidity that is almost afraid, he has not yet reached his own maximum. Meanwhile, Musetti gnaws and is approaching. We will see some beautiful ones and the Italian tennis in his happy diversity has never given satisfaction so and so hopeful long -term.
