“This new year started well with the victory of Sinner In the Australian championships for the second consecutive year: we express the compliments “. Very few seconds and it is the only reference that the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella reserves for the South Tyrolean champion, absent at the Quirinale hearing with the national and male tennis national and men’s national tennis of the Bjk Cup and the Davis Cup.
No quote when the head of state focuses on the victory of the Davis Cup, greeting the athletes present, without however remembering Jannik Sinner, who also played the meetings of the final phase, finding the way instead to congratulate even Lorenzo Sonegonot included in the representative who played Davis, but also the protagonist in Australia.
Mattarella’s speech
“I would like to greet the two captains Filippo Volandri e Tathiana garbin With great gratitude for the extraordinary work made-affirm the president referring to the national teams- every time I look with curiosity in the intervals between the game the expression with which you turn to the athletes and athletes and I think it is a technical and psychological work, however precious . Thanks for your work “.
The President of the Republic recalls “the times when Italian tennis was always of a good level, the times of Cucelli and the beauty, which in the Davis of ’48, the one that resumed the activity after the war, inserted themselves significantly: Then we would never have hoped to get to these results, at this level of success. Musetti, also thinking of those who operate in tennis but this year did not participate in the Davis team, there is someone who started well the year like Sonego. , Musets, Vavassori and Bolelli – Mattarella reiterated, without mentioning Sinner – It was of great reference for all our fellow citizens on this occasion “.