“Maria Sharapova is a very special person,” Jannik Sinner in complete awe of the former World No. 1
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Jannik Sinner and Maria Sharapova
Jannik Sinner continues to rise in the sport of tennis with his good performance across surfaces. The 20-year-old is currently ranked 10th in the World and is Italian No. 2 in the ATP rankings. Sinner has already won 5 ATP titles with the ATP-500 Washington Open, his biggest title so far. He had also reached the finals of the 2021 Miami Masters but was unlucky to win the title.
As the Italian youngster looks to cement his place in the Top 10, he recently talked about the impact of former World No. 1 and 5-time Grand Slam champion Maria Sharapova on him.
Maria and Sinner met through Riccardo Piatti, who had coached Sharapova in 2019-20 and had taken Sinner under his wing since Sinner was 13. Sinner, however, parted ways with Piatti after his quarter-final defeat at the 2022 Australian Open.
After he had defeated Andy Murray in the Round of 16 in the 2022 Dubai Tennis Championships, threw light on his friendship with Sharapova.
I had the chance to get to know her a bit more and she is a very special person. We also trained a few times together on the court. I think she was a very impressive player with, of course, an outstanding mentality. She had an amazing mindset. And what she has done for the sport is also great. Yes, I think I'm very lucky to know her.said Sinner
Jannik Sinner’s 2022 outing so far has been full of positives
Sinner started his season representing Italy at the 2022 ATP Cup, winning all three of his round-robin matches, but it wasn’t enough to take his country into the semi-finals of the tournament as Italy crashed out from the group stages.
Sinner then proceeded to play at the Australian Open, where he reached the quarter-finals, having dropped only one set. He, however, lost to World No. 4 Stefanos Tsitsipas in straight sets in the quarter-final.
Having announced his split with coach Piatti and hiring Simone Vagnozzi as his coach going ahead into the season. The pair’s first tournament was in Dubai, where the Italian took down Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Murray to make it into the quarter-finals, where he lost to Hubert Hurkacz.
Sinner is expected to next play at the 2022 Indian Wells Masters, which will be played before the 2022 Miami Masters scheduled later in the month before the Tour shifts its focus completely to the Clay court tournaments for the Golden Swing.
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