“It doesn’t matter if I win now or at 23 or 24, the process is for the long term”: Jannik Sinner
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Jannik Sinner
19-year-old Jannik Sinner was found incredibly calm even after losing out in the second round of the ATP 250 Atlanta Open. He had just been defeated in straight sets at the hands of Australian Christopher O’ Connell, 7-6, 6-4.
“It’s easy for me to stay positive”
It was his FOURTH consecutive defeat since Rafael Nadal brushed him aside at Roland Garros and since then Jannik has had first round losses at Queens’ and Wimbledon. Sinner, however, looked more on the positive side of things and said “How do I stay positive? It’s very Easy. For me personally it doesn’t matter if I win now at 20 or at 23.” The Italian also remarked about his long-term goals “I think our goal is to become a great player when I am around 23,24 years old. The process we are doing is for the long term”
“I had a couple of great results, but I don’t think I’ve won something big,” said Sinner, who reached his first ATP Masters 1000 final in Miami earlier this year.
“I am playing tennis a lot, enjoying playing tennis, working physically and mentally to be in the best possible position when I am around 23 years old. I don’t know if it’s going to be when I am 23 or 22 or maybe already next week, you never know,” Sinner said. “But what I think is very important is to think back where I come from. The people who stayed very close to me know how important tennis is for me, which I think will be my life for the next hopefully 20 years.“
“Can’t see results in one or two tournaments”
“I am just trying to enjoy every journey. It just started, so hopefully I can still show some good tennis in the future.” “Today, I was not serving so bad to be honest,” Sinner said. “In general, I think I was practicing well. I didn’t put away one single practice session. I was always focused and obviously the results you cannot see in one or two tournaments. It’s going out in a couple of matches and hopefully I’m going to win some matches here in the U.S. swing, which will give me confidence and then after I’ll start to play my tennis, trying to get 100 per cent out of my potential.”
Sinner is still in the doubles event in Atlanta. He and Reilly Opelka have reached the semifinals, where they will take on Marcelo Arevalo and Miguel-Angel Reyes-Varela. Sinner will then travel to Washington DC for the ATP 500 event in the American capital next week
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