‘He’s a Millimeter Away From Novak Djokovic’- Jannik Sinner’s Exploits Draw Staggering Verdict From a Legendary Compatriot

Jannik Sinner‘s marvelous performance brought Italy its first Davis Cup and the tennis fraternity is highly confident about his future. Sinner’s extraordinary tennis skills were initially revealed when he faced off against Serbian tennis legend Novak Djokovic at the Nitto ATP 2023 finals. While he lost that final, Sinner dedicatedly snatched Italy’s debut Davis Cup victory. Following this, even a famous Italian tennis stalwart Adriano Panatta believes that he is truly a tennis legend in the making.

Keeping aside Sinner’s mindblowing track record, he earned fans’ respect for remembering colleague Tathiana Garbin’s tremendous challenge with physical illness. Now that even Djokovic is hopeful bout this Italian prodigy’s professional tennis career, Jannik Sinner fans are completely over the moon.

Former tennis legend keeps a high hope on Jannik Sinner outshining Novak Djokovic very soon

Sinner’s brilliant performance has been praised by the tennis legend Billie Jean King herself. The former Italian tennis star Adriano Panatta expressed a beautiful complement that expresses Italy’s faith in this 22-year-old tennis star. Panatta commented- “I’m dying and Sinner is being born! He’s an example, he’s a millimeter away from Djokovic, Nole fears him. With Jannik we are fine for ten years, he is square and mature” (In translation)

Panatta’s comment surely overwhelmed Sinner fans with a hope that soon their favorite tennis player will outshine the famous Serbian tennis stalwart. However, Adriano Panatta didn’t just express his hope but he further added how Sinner’s glory awaits only the French Open and an ATP tournament victory. He said-“All that’s missing is Rome and Paris, then we’re done! I’m happy, I don’t know the word envy.” (In translation)

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Sinner truly deserves this compliment as he pulled off great hard work for Italy. Nobody can disagree with the fact that despite losing his ATP 2023 tournament, he bounced back bringing the Davis Cup 2023 to Italy. In fact, Sinner’s own revelations about defeating Djokovic at the Davis Cup 2023 finals are evidence of his dedication to tennis.

Jannik Sinner revealed about his moment after defeating the Serbian tennis legend at the Davis Cup

Sinner defeated Djokovic previously during a group stage match at the Nitto ATP Tournament 2023. However, that still didn’t bring him the cup. Sinner totally remained calm and finally defeated Djokovic for the second time this season in the Davis Cup semi-finals.

Now winning over the legendary Serbian twenty-four times Grand Slam winner is truly not a mere thing. While players like Nick Kyrgios feel troubled against Djokovic, Sinner proved his tennis skills by defeating the latter twice. While expressing how he felt about that, Sinner expressed- “Obviously before the match we were talking that it was a really important test today, you know, trying to understand what to expect before the match. Then I think we made a good tactical moment also before the match, and then obviously playing it is a little bit different but I think I have to be really proud about how I handle the situation,” 

Sinner’s mature performance and calmness in mind have moved both the tennis stalwarts and the fans. Now after Sinner’s own comment about defeating Djokovic, fans understand that he has great poise, which will surely make him one of the legendary tennis players in coming future.

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