The Atp Finals are well present in my head: I want to go to Turin. If a good day were enough-2) to clarify the perfect week Jannik Sinner at Diego Schwartzman’s ATP 250 in Antwerp in the final (6-2, 6 and the fourth title of the season five finals played (first tennis player) Italian to succeed in the undertaking: having passed Barazzutti, Bertolucci and Fognini at an altitude of 3), it would all be too simple.

The guy who whispers to history, able to learn something from every match (In this victory there is much of the defeat with Hurkacz in the final in Miami – he explained yesterday -, or of the kappa with Fritz in Indian Wells … as if I had put together all the matches I’ve played so far. When you lose it is perfectly useless to complain: you always have to find the positive things and put them away), surpasses the surprising king of Indian Wells Cameron Norrie in the Race to Turin and climbs other steps of the world rankings: yesterday he woke up number 13 and from today he becomes number 11, best ranking, at the age of twenty. And sorry if little. But the work does not end there, says Jannik with red curls scattered on his head after lifting the trophy and hugging coach Riccardo Piatti, the travel companion who made him find in the box in Antwerp. Manas Dhamne, born in 2007, the young Indian who trains at the Bordighera Academy with the future wide open in front: as if to say, boy, eye that the generation of very young people is growing.

The work starts again in Vienna (follow the Master 1000 in Paris and, eventually, Stockholm to sweep the last points), the ATP 500 which looks like a thousand and which has five Italians on the board (Berrettini on the field already today), where Sinner will find the two rivals to whom he contends for the ticket for the Master: the Polish friend Hurkacz, n. 9 in the Race, and the Norwegian Ruud (n.7), possible crossroads for the South Tyrolean in the quarterfinals of the Austrian tournament, an important junction on the road to Turin. I had a great time in Antwerp, I moved very well, everything worked out. I am proud of the level I have expressed. But in tennis every day different. And in Vienna we start all over again. The challenge to win even when I don’t play well. I feel motivated every time I enter the pitch. Schwartzman, Argentine veteran of the 14th circuit in the world, had wonderful words for Sinner, who was facing for the first time in his career: every match a brick in the construction of the house that Piatti has in mind for Jannik, nothing left to chance, in fact all energies are focused on the singular, from here to Davis at the end of November there will be no way to experience the double blue with Berrettini. A choice of the team – confirms the South Tyrolean -, which I totally trust. Patience, the coach Filippo Volandri will know how to improvise.