Well, what allowed me to do that was it was always the people who are close to me daily,” Sinner said at the end of the US Open, “people who know me already from when I was very young, and also my family and my team and everyone who supports me daily. You know, I always try to stick together with them, especially when the moments are getting difficult and tough, because I know that they can help me in these moments.”
Motivation
Sinner is an intriguing mix: an explosive game, housed in a tranquil persona. “I went away from home when I was 14 years old,” he said earlier this year. “So I had to grow up quite fast, trying to cook for myself, trying to make laundry. You know, the first times it is different, you know, but then in the other way, that was maybe the fastest way to grow up.” Indeed, Sinner’s maturity surfaces in everything from his ability to stay calm in matches – such as rallying from two sets to love down versus Daniil Medvedev in the ’24 Australian Open final – to the way he maintained poise around the controversy surrounding his positive drug test.
