His sister Ayline, two years older, also plays tennis. Now maybe they will move to Spain, to their maternal uncles
Yannick Ngantcha is one of the most promising young tennis players in Italy. He is 14 years old, a name almost the same as Sinner’s and identical to Noah’s, but a very hard fate for now. Atrocious, ruthless, of those who leave you speechless.
In 2019, while traveling with his mother to Arezzo to play a youth tournament, the first blow arrives, a very serious road accident. Yannick comes out with a wrist and arm in plaster, mother Maria Vicenta Sammartin, Spanish, instead dies instantly.
Yannick, who was born in Fano in 2007 and then moved to Umbria, where his parents started a family, reacts like the champion he is. A year later he returns to Arezzo and wins the tournament, accompanied by his father, walking the cursed road every day. Despite the pandemic and the enormous misfortune he gradually manages to find a minimum of tranquility, training between the academy of coach Gorietti in Foligno and the Perugia Tennis Center of Remo Lavoratori, edited by the federal technician Luca Sbrascini who has followed him since he was eleven.
A few days ago, the second blow: father Jean-Jacques, a pharmacist born in Cameroon, died of a lung cancer with a fulminant course, leaving both Yannick and his sister Ayleen, two years older, an orphan, also a tennis player. It was Jean-Jacques who told how Yannik in 2020 managed to win the tournament in the name of mother Maria Vicenta, “Arriving at the club with tears in his eyes, knowing it would mean closing a painful chapter.” And Yannick had played that final with disarmed serenity, encouraged by the affection of a very large audience. A courage that fate wanted to make fun of.
“Now hundreds of messages and phone calls are coming to me again – says Sbrascini – everyone wants to lend a hand to these two guys, and that’s right, I would like to say a duty to help them with every kind of support, moral, economic, human”. Yannick, whose idol is Nadal and who hopes one day to win Roland Garros, is a true talent. At 9 he won the tennis Trophy Fit Kinder, the year after the famous Lemon Bowl under 10, the Master of the category.
He was the Italian champion under 11, he played under 12 with the national team in the main events of the category. Dad and mom, both tennis fans, after meeting by chance had thought of moving to Spain and the USA, where professional prospects were more attractive, then they chose Italy. Jean-Jacques graduated in pharmacy in Urbino, his dream was to return to Africa to open a pharmacy in Cameroon, but also the sporting successes of the children had convinced him and his wife to postpone the project.
“We are a truly multicultural family – she had told Spatiotennis.com – The mother speaks to her children in Spanish, I sometimes in French, they obviously speak in Italian at school and with their friends. There is a mixture of uses, customs, food of our origins. Our children like all this, they love it when they go to Spain, to their grandparents in Valencia, but they are delighted to live here in Italy. I believe that this mix of cultures and origins can only do good. I am happy to have stayed here, but I have always been convinced that we would be equally happy in any other part of the world: because we are a peaceful and happy family. The first aspect to consider is the happiness of one’s own family environment, the whole outline comes later ».
A model family, light years away from the excesses and obsessions of certain tennis families. A happiness destroyed by chance. To be reconstructed, as far as possible, starting from Yannick and Ayline, who will now perhaps move to Spain, from their maternal uncles. Perhaps from tennis, certainly in the name of mother Maria Vicenta and father Jean-Jacques.
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