It’s an emotional moment for sport in general, but the teams are here to win the Davis Cup as well as give the final round of applause to Nadal. On the same side of the Spanish draw, Alexander Zverev’s Germany, which could not culminate with the final the great form that accompanied it this week in Turin, will face Felix Auger-Aliassime’s Canada, champions in 2022 (tomorrow, starting at 12 noon).
On the other hand, Italy is the favorite, of course, the current champion and with a Jannik Sinner He has become a merciless master at 23 years old after completing a wonderful week in Turin without losing a set, and a magnificent entire year with eight titles and his first two Grand Slams. He finishes this individual season with an honors degree after starting with outstanding honors. The national ski champion boy left that promising career in the mountains at the age of twelve to bet everything with the racket. But he couldn’t find a way for his excellent tennis skills to be combined with his physical skills to fully adapt to the demands of the circuit. The wingspan was perfect for this powerful tennis (1’91 tall) and serving as a definitive weapon, but the chassis needed to be filled with power and muscle; and the Grand Slams were too long for him. In 2023: round of 16 in Australia, second round at Roland Garros, semifinals at Wimbledon and round of 16 at the US Open. But in 2024, a leap in quality and size to face the five-set feats: champion in Australia, beating Djokovic and Medvedev along the way. He stumbles a little on clay and grass at the moment, but he has made the hard court his stronghold and in the summer linked Cincinnati and the US Open, the final in Beijing (against Alcaraz) and Shanghai before conquering Turin.
But the player from San Candido has been accompanied since March by a positive that stripped him of the points and money from Indian Wells, and that raised criticism from the mid-circuit because no one knew about him or the investigation when in many other cases the player is removed from tournaments while the questions and answers last. The tennis player claims involuntary contamination through a cream, but the World Anti-Doping Agency filed a claim for the process and his acquittal, which is still pending.
He forgets all that with rackets, impregnable on the hard court and with 70 wins out of 76 games this year. The tennis and Italian leader will face Argentina on Thursday (5:00 p.m.) and the winner will face the winner of the duel between Australia and the United States (Thursday at 10:00 a.m.), which has a fully mature Taylor Fritz, finalist of the Masters Cup.
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