Jannik Sinner and the president of Fitp, Angelo Binaghi, They were received this morning by the new pontiff, Leone XIV. Together with the n.1 of the world he also his family and that of the president of the Federation.
Jannik Sinner gave a tennis racket to the pope. The champion had his and also a ball and asked Leone: “Do you want to play?”.
The Pope showed him the room with lamps and other furniture and laughing replied: “Leave it alone, here better not”. Leone also added laughing: “To Wimbledon they would leave me …”, meaning that on the famous British field they would have made him play with the new racket.
At the meeting with Pope Sinner he was accompanied by his parents. After the iniary greetings, “pleasure, honored” said the champion, the number one in the world presented his father and mother to the Pope who asked if they spoke German and Sinner confirmed ‘yes, we speak German’. So Alberto Binaghi donated the Fit card to Leone XIV. The pontiff then congratulated the match yesterday (‘you won’, said Prevost, and Sinner replied: ‘We succeeded’) and asked how the tournament in Rome was going. “We are at stake, at the beginning of the tournament it was difficult but with three games we took,” Sinner said.