For a few months now, we special envoys who travel around the tennis circuit have observed something: tennis is turning blue.
There are more and more Italian reporters frequenting the corridors, press rooms and tribunes of large venues. Hyperactive and committed, giornalistic They pursue Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berrettini, Jasmine Paolini and Sara Errani.
Well, wherever they go, their tennis is perfect.
These days, 48 journalists from 26 Italian media have frequented the bowels of the Martín Carpena Palace in Malaga (they are more than any other delegation, they are even more than the Spanish featherweights, the locals, depressed after the immediate eliminations of the red teams), They were following in the footsteps of Angelo Binaghi, the elegant president of the Italian Tennis Federation (FIT), who walked around proud and satisfied because his program has yielded sensational results: this Sunday, the Italian men’s school combined the Davis Cup title (second in a row; it already has three in its history) with the title of the Billie Jean King Cup, women’s version of this kind of team world cup.
The project
In 23 years, Angelo Binaghi, president of the Italiana, has designed a program that bears good fruit
The Spanish academy, nostalgic now that it has lost Rafael Nadal (and to a lesser extent, Garbiñe Muguruza, her months ago), contemplates the magnificent drift of the Italian school. She does it between nostalgic and confused, since the embers of an unforeseen defeat still crackle, that of the quarterfinals, last Tuesday against the Netherlands, that of Nadal’s sudden goodbye.
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Quietly, the Netherlands of Botic Van de Zandschulp, Tallon Griekspoor and doubles player Wesley Koolhof have been advancing in this Davis Cup, reaching yesterday’s final against the Italians.
So far.
Jannik Sinner and Matteo Berretini gave an account of their singles matches (Sinner, leader of the circuit, closed the match against Griekspoor 7-6 (2) and 6-2; before, Berrettini had knocked down Van de Zandschulp 6-4 and 6-2) and we chroniclers, overwhelmed by the Italian explosion, began to analyze their academy: it is not a flash in the pan.
Since becoming president of the FIT in 2001, the elegant Binaghi has embarked on a profound reform.
Mateo Berrettini takes a self-portrait with the Italian team after beating Van de Zandschulp
In these 23 years, it has unified the plan into a range of schools. Two hundred coaches have lined up in the system, focusing especially on young talents. The program has been centralized in Pisa. Sinner, Berrettini and Musetti have attended the rallies held at that academy. Technicians like Ricardo Piatti, Sinner’s coach, shared his methods with the rest of the coaches.
The organizers committed to setting up dozens of Challengers and Futures tournaments on any surface (in 2022 there were 28 Challengers and 24 Futures in Italy), encouraging young talents, generating more sponsors, more profits for everyone and more practitioners whose licenses subsidize the system, a virtuous circle that has made its plan a model to follow, the best example possible today.
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