Jannik Sinner. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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“L’Italia è fatta. Restano da fare gli italiani.” – Massimo d’Azeglio
Italian tennis is in the midst of a golden age. It’s about damn time, too. For a country where tennis is quite popular, Italy has produced a disappointingly low number of tennis greats.
In the early 2000s and into the 2010s, Italy’s women finally started soaring to unreached heights.In 2010 Francesca Schiavone won the French Open, becoming the first Italian woman to win a Grand Slam singles title. Two years later, Sara Errani equalled Schiavone’s achievement of reaching the final of Roland Garros but fell just short of winning the trophy, and she also finished runner-up at the Australian Open in 2012. She truly shines as a doubles player, having won nearly everything there is to win in the doubles category. Then there was Flavia Pennetta who won the 2015 edition of the US Open singles event and also hauled in loads of trophies as a doubles player during her career, becoming the first Italian—male or female—to be ranked world Number 1 in the doubles category. This golden generation of Italian ladies dominated the Federation Cup (now called the Billie Jean King Cup), winning the team-based international competition in 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2013. Their success has passed on to a new generation and into this decade, with Italy winning the cup again in 2024 and 2025.
On the men’s side of the game, however, Italy remained way behind the likes of Germany, Spain, and the United States. Until the wily wizard Fabio Fognini (who ended up marrying Flavia Pennetta) pulled off a surprise victory in Monte Carlo in 2019, no Italian man had ever won a Masters 1000 title. As for Grand Slams, only two Italian gentlemen had managed to do it, all the way back in 1959 and 1960 when Nicola Pietrangeli won back to back French Open titles, and Adriano Panatta, who won his own French Open prize in 1976. After Panatta, no Italian would even reach a Grand Slam final until Matteo Berrettini fought his way to the last match of Wimbledon 2021.
But now, there is an Italian tennis renaissance (or rinascimento; let’s use the Italian word here). Berrettini’s appearance in the Wimbledon final was both the sweet fruit of years and years of innovating player development and coaching methods in Italy, and a foreshadowing of what was to come. The years following 2021 have seen Italian male tennis players impose themselves on the tour like never before. Italians are regularly winning tournaments at every important level—250, 500, and Masters 1000. Currently, in the list of the top ten players in the world, there are two Italians: Lorenzo Musetti and Jannik Sinner.
Jannik Sinner? After names like Pennetta and Schiavone, Berrettini and Musetti, a name like Jannik Sinner sounds like a vinyl record scratching to a stop.
Young Jannik is from the region of Trentino-Alto Adige, also known as Südtirol. It’s that part of Italy where most people speak German, where street signs are in German, and where people have German-sounding names. Jannik’s father is Hanspeter Sinner and his mother’s name is Siglinde.
As a tennis player, Jannik Sinner’s story is compelling. Unlike most children who go on to become tennis champions, Jannik (it seems everyone gets to call him by his first name) barely touched a racquet until he was nearly in his teens. Instead, he spent his childhood skiing in the Dolomites near his house. While many tennis prodigies come from parents who are either tennis players themselves and/or comfortably wealthy, Jannik’s parents are neither. And yet, thanks to a blend of talent, physique, and good coaching, Jannik Sinner has become not just the world’s best tennis player today (although a pesky Spaniard might have a thing or two to say about that), but could even go on to become the best of all time.
As the most famous athlete in Italy and one of the nation’s most recognizable faces worldwide, Sinner’s story gets even more interesting. It has been a long time since Italy has had an individual superstar like Jannik, and the reaction from some Italians proves that Italians themselves are often the ones who least appreciate what their country and their people have accomplished. Jannik has rightfully been lauded with praise and admiration, but constant attacks from some Italian journalists, politicians, and members of the general public threaten to scuff the gleam off his crown.
There are three principal accusations that Jannik’s haters launch against him:
“His style of tennis is boring.”
This accusation comes from tennis casuals who don’t know what they are talking about. Sinner is no more boring than the vast majority of contemporary players who stay at the baseline and try to blast the ball as hard as they can. Sinner just does it better, and that can often be very exciting to watch indeed.
“He is a doper.”
For those who are keen to know them, the details of Jannik Sinner’s doping scandal are easily found any and everywhere. Here, it suffices to say that the real shame is not on the young Altoatesino, but on the World Anti-Doping Agency and its handling of the case. To believe that a billionth of a gram of a substance (that’s 58,000 times smaller than a grain of salt) was what made Jannik Sinner hit faster and more accurate groundstrokes than his rivals (which he continues to do after the scandal as well) is just silly. Despite the facts of the matter and even the final statements of WADA which absolved Sinner of any wrongdoing, many tennis fans, who can be some of the most insufferable people imaginable, won’t move on and persist in calling Jannik a drugs cheat.
“He has no personality.”
Jannik Sinner is mild-mannered, well-spoken, polite, a bit awkward (he is a ginger, after all) and on the tennis court, he is colder than a meat locker. That is his personality. “Personality” does not mean hot-headed or flamboyant, but in this age of slop and Internet influencers, the masses have forgotten that public figures and celebrities don’t have to be brash, emotional, or polemical.
Then there is a fourth accusation, and from an identitarian perspective, it’s the most intriguing of them all.
“He is not Italian.”
“When men and mountains meet, great things happen.” – William Blake
Alto Adige. Südtirol. However one calls it, one cannot deny that it is amongst the most breathtaking, charming, and fascinating places in Europe. But what is it? German? Austrian? Italian? Short answer: yes. Let’s take the time machine and go for a quick joyride. I promise we won’t go too far back in time.
Alto Adige’s history is marked by its position as a crossroads between the Latin and Germanic worlds. Fifteen years before Christ, the Romans conquered the territory, built roads there, established military outposts, and spread their language. Deep in the Alpine forests and high up in the mountains, however, the native customs remained strong.
The fall of the Roman Empire brought with it the first Germanic incursion into the land, when Theodoric led his Ostrogoths on a series of invasions into formerly Roman territories. Germanic presence on the Italian peninsula would not be limited to its northernmost extremities, with the Longobards, also known as the Lombards, settling deeper into Italy and leaving such a lasting mark that one of Italy’s most famous and populous regions bears their name to this day.
Over the centuries, Germanic influence began to overtake Latin influence in Alto Adige. In 1316, the area fell under the wing of the Habsburg family, becoming part of the Holy Roman Empire and then the Austrian Empire. More centuries passed, and the 1800s saw the rise of Italian nationalism and the fight for a unified Italy freed from foreign rulers. However, even as Risorgimento fever was spreading through nearby Trentino, German-speaking people in Südtirol remained largely indifferent, staying out of the conflict, and the subsequent formation of the Italian nation-state, entirely.
It wasn’t until the end of World War One, which from an Italian point-of-view was the last battle of the Risorgimento, that Südtirol became a part of Italy. Italian nationalists, inspired by figures like Giuseppe Mazzini and Gabriele D’Annunzio, had long viewed the Alps as Italy’s natural borders. Alto Adige was seen as part of Italia irredenta, alongside the aforementioned Trentino, Istria, and Dalmatia. Nevertheless, while its geographic importance for Italy as a landmass and nation-state could not be denied, the argument that South Tyrol was ethnically Italian was harder to make.
All this is part of the dramatic, and oftentimes tragic, story of the European peoples. Things get complicated. They get messy. Very messy. Even today, there are independence organizations lingering in Südtirol, pining for a day when they will break away from Italy. This is how the tapestry of Europe’s nations is weaved. To put it in the words of a somewhat facetious meme, every nation in Europe is actually three nations (at least) in a trench coat. This is mostly true, and Italy is one of the best examples.
Even though Alto Adige has been a part of Italy for over a hundred years, the fact remains that it is a very different part of Italy. But, as Jannik Sinner himself said in a recent interview with Sky Sport Italia, one can say the same of regions like Sicily, or Sardinia, or indeed every one of Italy’s twenty regions and all their respective provinces. It is one of the country’s great ironies: it is a land that is so old, that has been continuously inhabited for so long, and yet, as a nation-state called “Italy” populated by people called “Italians”, it is a young duckling. To this day, it is still easy to find people who identify first and foremost with their region, or even their comune, (Lombardi, Bergamaschi, Romagnoli, Perugini, Romani, Salentini…) before ever considering themselves “Italiani”.
So why is Jannik Sinner attacked on this front? Because we live in stupid, dishonest times full of stupid, dishonest people. Jannik’s decision to abstain from this year’s Davis Cup did not help his cause, inviting as it did a cascade of scorn to fall upon him. “See?” growled the public. “He doesn’t want to play for Italy because he’s not Italian. Deep down, he wishes he could play for Austria!” Apparently, a significant portion of the Italian population suffers from short-term memory loss, as they forget that Jannik Sinner led Italy to back-to-back triumphs at the Davis Cup in 2023 and 2024.
Most of the time, though, it is smug Italian liberal-leftists who like to say Jannik Sinner, who will go down as one of Italy’s greatest sportsmen of all time, is not Italian. They do this not because they are race connoisseurs or blood and soil nationalists who have determined that Jannik clusters far closer to Germanic autosomal DNA samples than Italic. No, they do it because they are petty, spiteful losers. They want to belittle any Italian accomplishment and mock the Italian equivalent of “the gammon” for feeling proud of and represented by a champion and all-around nice young man like Jannik Sinner. Yet, these are the same people who will worship any “new Italian” who comes from Africa or Asia. They have no problem, indeed they relish, celebrating fresh-off-the-boat migrants as “Italian”. Jannik Sinner isn’t Italian because he’s from Alto Adige and speaks German. But Paola Egonu? Of course she’s Italian! Pay no attention to the fact that both her parents are Nigerian migrants, you racist. Same goes for Mario Balotelli, or rather, Mario Barwuah. Born to Ghanian parents and adopted by an Italian couple (the wife is Jewish, as a matter of fact) from Brescia, the same liberals expect, nay, demand, that we consider Mario Italian.
We can even stick with tennis for another example of the liberals’ hypocrisy. While Jannik Sinner is breaking records and ladening his shelves with trophies, over on the women’s side of the tour, Italy has another champion: Jasmine Paolini. Paolini’s mother is half Polish and her maternal grandfather is Ghanian, yet no one would dare question her Italian identity, yet at the same time, she is celebrated for her “diversity”. In fact, one liberal blabbermouth with a clear fetish for Africans, Eleonora Camilli, went so far as to say that it is Paolini’s partly African ancestry that makes her so victorious and such a wonderful symbol of la nuova Italia. These are the incoherencies that abound when no one is honest.
So, what is the honest answer to the question, “Is Jannik Sinner Italian?” Yes. He is. He himself is openly and proudly Italian. But it’s complicated. Lots of things in Italy are complicated. Forging a nation and uniting peoples separated by dialects and centuries of warring city-states is complicated.
The controversy around Jannik’s national identity should serve as a lesson. These are delicate things we’re dealing with here, tied up in complex histories, old wounds that still hurt, and deep roots that matter to everyday people. Maybe some ought to show a bit more respect to that stuff, instead of playing social engineer and thinking they have the right and the wisdom to meddle with the fragile ecosystem that is a modern nation.
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Retarded post: the best position is not Sinner, nor Egonu nor “Paolini” are italians.
Compelling contribution, Paolo.
If you apply this logic to American tennis players then John McEnroe is Irish. Pete Sampras is Greek. Andre Agassi is Iranian. Vitas Gerulaitis is Lithuanian. Pancho Gonzales is Mexican. And so on down the list. Not all the parts in a Ferrari are made in Italy but you can’t get more Italian than a Ferrari.
Is being White enough? Can Whites just go to another White country and their offspring, even if no inter-ethnic mix has taken place, be considered of that nation?
If Herr/Signore Sinner has no Italian blood, can he be Italian just because he is White?
There is one country that being White is your ticket. The good old USA.
If my great, great grandparents were born in Sweden and emmigrated to America and if tomorrow I moved to Sweden I think I can rightly claim Swedish citizenship. Especially if I have distant relatives there.
Consider Jannik’s name an oddity outlier among Italians and no more. He’s European and in Italy assimilated enough, born and raised, to cluster in to Italianness provided he stays that way as a man of that lived culture. No obvious mongs and if Italian leftists hate Italy so much and are only devoted to its destruction through hordes of invaders like ‘balotelli’ they should be exiled and permanently estranged like a disappointment fuck-up of a kid who has spat on their family for the crime of giving a shit. It’s a tougher sell for a Greek to consider himself Icelandic or a Portuguese a Ukrainian but the German/Northern Italian look is close enough to be visually interchangeable. If the line of not-us otherness must be drawn randomly somewhere, Jannik Sinner has not crossed that line.
I think it depends on the country these days. It’s possible Western Europe might just be pleased as punch to receive another Anglo among the hoards of Paki & Afro Muslims that are pouring in. There’s strong rivalry between England and Ireland, for example, but I’m starting to observe that this doesn’t matter as much during the current nonwhite, all-out invasion of Europe.
Italian history is indeed rich and fascinating. Short summary of my research into Italian Renaissance geopolitics and European economic history:
a) city-based identities were central – the “main actors” in Italian history were city states like Florence, Venice, Rome, Genoa
b) Italy was the connector between NW Europe and the Mediterranean world, and also housed the spiritual center of the Medieval Occident (Rome)
c) northern Italians – or Lombards as they were called in northern Europe – were the leading capitalists of their times, both in banking (Florence) and sea trade (Venice, Genoa)
d) Italians (particularly Florentines and Genoese) helped the young nations of the Spain and Portugal get started economically
e) competition between city-states was fierce, and often to the detriment of Italy as a whole. This became apparently especially during the Italian Wars (1494-1559) and in the context of the Ottoman expansion in the east, where the Genoese and Florentines were often enough satisfied that their arrogant Venetian competitors were being humbled by the Ottomans
f) three major developments led to the relative decline of Italy after 1500: One, the rise of a giant Muslim empire in the east. Two, the development of Atlantic sea trade (Americas, direct access to the Indian ocean, island like the Azores and Canaries). Three, a general “catching” up of northern Europe, with for example the English starting to send trade ships into the Mediterranean themselves (instead of relying on Italian sea republics)
g) the reason why the Jews eclipsed the Italians as the leading bankers and traders in Europe was because they were basically nomadic and simply moved to northern Europe when that region began to rise economically, while the Italians, for all their capitalist expertise, always remained bound to their home land (or rather home town). A Florentine banker may make a fortune in northern Europe, but he used it to build or buy a big palazzo in Florence and increase his family’s influence in that city. No matter how internationally active Italian bankers or merchants were, they were never international capitalists, but national capitalists doing business abroad.
An excellent comment, Dominic. Obviously, everyone knows about Italy during the Renaissance but I think it often goes under-appreciated just how influential Italians were all over Europe, behind the scenes sort of, in subsequent decades and centuries.
Great article Angelo, really enjoyed it. It certainly isn’t simple especially as South Tyrol hadn’t been “Austrian” for that long either. While most places in Soth Tyrol (not Trentino, whose place names are Italian) have both their original German names and their Mussolini influenced Italianised names, there are some places whose original names come from the Ladino Speaking population, which puts another spanner in the works. Towns like Corvara, Badia and Arabba do not have German names because they are in the Ladino Speaking Part of South Tyrol. Sinner, however is from Innichen (San Candido), Just over the border with Austria. I have to say that as I’ve been there a few times, the region feels neither Italian nor German but a unique nation all of its own. Yes, you wrote about the resentment some German Speaking locals have regardingbits “annexation” by Italy, but I think deep down they like their uniqueness and the fact that they grew up speaking two languages and can attach themselves to two different countries as and when they feel like it. To conclude, Sinner is Italian (in his own way), Fiona May is not.
Thank you. God, how I love articles about tennis players (white variety, of course). Whoever said that Sinner’s style of playing tennis is boring must be blind. I could watch him all day, as I did The GOAT before he began to wind down.
However, I think that Sinner is not Italian, regardless of what he says about himself and your explanation of the history of the area. He is a public figure, he’s got to be careful. This comes down to: is Italian an ethnicity or is it a citizenship? He is Germanic. Period.
Now, if he should take up with some African-type female tennis player, I don’t know what I’ll do.
Agreed on Sinner not being Italian but that’s only something I’m only going to state among our own OR when Europe is in the hands of radical ethno Nationalists. Until then he’s as Italian as Mussolini and I’ll cause as much trouble for the globalists when they claim Bantus and Hans are Italian.
Oh and talking of Italian female tennis players, American born Emma Navarro, billionaire heiress, so pretty that it hurts, beating all those sacrosanct “American” bantus was just a cherry on top. Did I mention how gorgeous she is? Good god.
The black-worshipping left and their transparent double standard apropos of stuff like gets so old. What devious little creatures they are. Horrible, horrible people, every one.
On a positive note, great article, Angelo. Watching a game of tennis between two poised and sportsmanlike white players is a real delight.
The right/conservatives/Republicans are also black worshippers. Most White men I see boorishly cheering on blacks in sports ball are white Republican voters who are proud if their daughters become coal burners. Almost all of my well meaning but misguided family on my wife’s side have black worship in their hearts when discussing race realism. Most of them MAGA, “right wing” or neutrals.
Fox is a black worship network with calls to prayer being transmitted 24 hours a day.
You’re right. That’s true too.
Trying having an adopted one after a vasectomy, divorce, and two White daughters. I’m heartbroken, angry, and deeply depressed over the predicament in my science experiment of a family so I come on here for solace, and positive optimism in the Kali Yuga nadir. That memorable line at the end of Shantaram sticks with me: God help us. God forgive us. We live on.
Do you mean to say you adopted a black son as a proxy through your second marriage?
I’ve noticed when White families adopt a little chocolate monster it’s always a male. This could be anecdotal but it’s all I’ve ever seen. Another observation I’ve made is these families have multiple daughters and then they go out and add a little African boy into the mix. What is the psychology behind it I wonder. My own analysis is some type of sexual perversion on one or both parents. The dynamic between the kids when hitting puberty is an odd one too.
I do not accuse you of what I’ve stated above but I have never personally known adults who have made this decision so I can only go off of the sick society we live in. Why else would a man bring HIV and release it upon his own family?
Either way I am sorry you have ended up in this nightmare.
Not me, my brother. He’s a stranger to me even growing up in the same house. Nothing in common at all. Two White daughters, a vasectomy, the adoption, now him and his awful ex are divorced. White collar. CC is an escape of mine because of it. I’m crushed but I just deal with it..
Another observation I’ve made is these families have multiple daughters
Over the past maybe 1.5 – 2 generations, most white couples are producing only female children. In the suburb where I live, that is what I see; everywhere I go, there is more of the same. Something to do with men being unusually affected by certain chemicals in our environment is what was said on a television science show quite a few years ago. The darker races seem to be producing more male children but in time, never fear, they too will be affected by this chemical soup we are swimming in, not to mention electrical & magnetic radiation.
Just by way of my observations, really masculine looking men who are married to feminine type women are producing lots of boys (5 boys in one family I am closely related to; no girls); and the reverse is true as to only daughters within a family. Believe this or not, I have seen it often enough: after several female children, the man & wife keep trying and trying for a boy, and what do they get – a homosexual male child, the last of the lot of too many kids in the first place. I personally know two homeschooling families, where the women kept cranking out girls, 8 or 9 in both cases. Guess what came last – a little fella. They got their boy!
In China, it is the opposite situation, where female children were aborted and so, from what I hear, anyway, you have tons, about 30,000,000, of unmarried Chinese males wandering about feeling blue about their lot. I’ve even heard of some of them heading to Ukraine (before the war) to marry Ukie girls. Might there be a silver lining to this cloud? Well, you young white males sure will have your choice of mates. And when one misbehaves, you can dump her and there’ll be 50 more waiting in line for your attentions 🙂
Gotta think positive.
Response to Stronza. You know after looking around the world I have come to a not very water tight theory on birth rates of boys vs girls.
As Mother Nature has her way of keeping all the numbers in check it does appear that she has found a way to attempt to reduce the population of pest humans by making them have more male offspring. Asia, Africa, Middle East (all non White countries) appear to have an abundance of males and not enough females to go around. Ten males, one female you’re getting one baby a year. Swap that around and you’re getting ten babies per year. I’ve always seen a society that has more female off spring as “blessed” or sanctioned by Mother Nature to increase their numbers. Actually chosen people. The darker people are producing male offspring because Mother Nature doesn’t need any more of them. Ironically I don’t think she’s realised that the reason darky numbers have sky rocketed is because of White people, their understanding of medical science and altruism means a people that would not have made it past infancy are now making it to 80 and breeding like rabbits.
I’ll have to keep an eye out for your theory on the matter and it is very interesting.
Response to Uncle Semantic.
When a man castrates himself voluntarily or because he was bullied by a woman the result either way is the same. The woman is now repulsed and disgusted by the sight of him and she will inevitably leave him or become openly unfaithful to him. A woman sometimes confuses herself and thinks she must dominate and control a man, if she succeeds she eventually comes to realise that is not what she wanted and the man for ever becomes pathetic to her.
One can be culturally Italian, genetically Italian, or both (or neither). To be ethnically Italian, you need to be both culturally and genetically Italian. My grandfather is 100% Italian genetically, but was born and raised in the USA, and thus not ethnically Italian. Some African could be born in Italy, and thus culturally Italian (in theory), but not genetically or ethnically Italian.
I suppose the Italian identity is closer to the British identity, with multiple distinct peoples merged under a single state, but that simply means you need to be one of those Italian peoples, just as being ethnically British requires being English, Irish, Scottish, or Welsh. Are the people from Alto Adige one of the Italian peoples? If so, then Jannik Sinner is Italian, like being Welsh makes you British. It doesn’t make him Sicilian or Roman, of course, just as being Welsh doesn’t make you English.
Yes, I see things similarly. Your comment reminds me of something a member of CasaPound once told me: It’s all well and good to complain about the Africans in Italy, but what are you doing, sons of Italy, to be more Italian than them? Do you know your history? Do you honour your ancestors? Do you keep your region’s customs?
It’s a challenge that deserves to be met.
He is racio-ethnically Italian, just culturally disengaged from the living tradition if he, like me, doesn’t speak the language or has never been there. All true identity at that racial and narrower ethnic level below should always aspire to cluster towards the exclusionary singular. No more dual identities or bare department store mannequins of none. An upside down pyramid of race, ethnos, nation, region, neighborhood, family, and you with the same thread of district look and behavior running through all as a Russian doll is the identity ideal.
“Jannik Sinner is mild-mannered, well-spoken, polite, a bit awkward (he is a ginger, after all)…”
It seems like redheaded European men have to put up with much more disfavor in Europe than redheaded men in America. I’ve never noticed any similar unfavorable bias toward redheaded women.
In England ginger girls would get similar treatment as the blokes and they weren’t referred to as “red heads”.
There’s a little distinction between gingers and red heads. Gingers usually have the patchy orangey skin with freckles, copper coloured hair. Red heads usually have the darker tone of hair (auburn) and clearer softer looking skin. The red head variant were much more rare. I don’t ever recall knowing or seeing any IRL. American TV was where I first saw a red head.
Going off of the very kosher South Park series it appeared that ginger men got the banter here in the US too?
I suppose the awkward traits Angelo outlines are seen as adorable in women.
“…it appeared that ginger men got the banter here in the US too?”
Not that I’ve noticed, and I went to American Catholic schools with lots of Irish students my whole life. The only non-auburn red heads I recall was one set of fraternal twins who had “strawberry blonde” (blondish-red) hair.
Forms were being filled out one day and the boy was asked his hair & eye color. The biggest, toughest boy in the class said, “strawberry blonde hair” & green eyes. (A couple Italian kids chuckled.)
Even though generally sportsball is cringe, this sort of article relating to sports was interesting to read. Thanks Angelo. Hopefully it will help bring some new readers to CC.
The question I’m still wondering is, could Jannik Sinner be based?
If sportsball is cringe, sports movies are cringe to the nth degree. This article awoke in me a memory of the late 70s sports movie Breaking Away, about a loveable ragtag American (Indianan?) small town college bike team (wtf?) who against all odds won against [anyone Jews don’t like]. There was a scene where the Italian bike team casually and dastardly put a rod in the spokes of the hero of the Indiana team. I remember liking this movie seeing it at 13 or 14, but remember it as ghastly now. The Italian antidefamation league should have been all over this if that league existed back then.
Sandlot and Hoosiers were fine and the jew walter mattheau was great in Bad News Bears.
“Based?” What’s with that?
Sinner is White. Call your next case.
Anon: November 8, 2025 Even though generally sportsball is cringe, this sort of article relating to sports was interesting to read. Thanks Angelo. The question I’m still wondering is, could Jannik Sinner be based?
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Yes, thanks, Angelo. My favorite line of yours:
So why is Jannik Sinner attacked on this front? Because we live in stupid, dishonest times full of stupid, dishonest people.
Excellent piece! Boring style of play? Like Bjorn Borg was boring? Or Pete Sampras? Winning is what counts and doing so with class and humility.
They always refer to the African NBA players coming from France as Frenchmen. They’re glorified anchor babies. I have Luxembourg roots and two of my siblings took them up on becoming citizens though we’re American. My sister hoped to use it to get her grand children a free education there. My brother has lived in Europe for a few years now and travelled hither and yon. Now he’s settled in Prague. Ah the single life!
I think some people may think tennis is a bit on the boring side these days due to the fact that it’s all over-long “base-line bashing” rallies, when in slightly older times, players would go to the net and win the point a lot quicker. That was certainly the case when I used to play when I was a youngster in the 80’s.
I never knew of this “controversy” about Sinner being Italian or not. When I first saw him, I just thought he was from way-up northern Alpine within the Italian border.
I too was a serve and volley player at my best. Now that I think about it, it probably comes back to a short attention span. I’ve viewed some women’s matches a bit and it’s true they rarely venture into the net. Why Italy would not be proud of a native son, especially a white one, is disappointing. Maybe if he changed his name to Guido?
Didn’t Jose Mourinho get flak for an unconventional style to grind out wins?
Is Carlos Alcaraz a real Spaniard? He looks very dark, maybe some remnants of Moorish blood. Anyway, he is a great player, and really the only threat to Sinner these days.
True, but Cameron Norrie beat him at the Paris Rolex last week. Poor Carlito was kind of stunned when he was interviewed afterwards, he just could not understand what happened. How have the mighty fallen…
Anyway, Sinner did win the competition after defeating Felix Two-Names (a dark fellow).
I don’t watch tennis but are Nadal and Djokovic retired and new blood taken over? And is the tennis fans’ opinion of serena williams that she’s got the mikey obama thing going on cause that’s not the most feminine face in the world.
Yes, Nadal is definitely retired, but the GOAT (Novak Djokovic) keeps limping along somehow – he seems unable to admit that his body is giving up on him. Today is the start of the ATP final (a round-robin, 8-player, two-section setup) and the poor fella had to bow out before even starting because of a shoulder injury. If you had seen how hard he had to labor to win a competition in Athens one day ago, against Musetti, in the third set, you would not be surprised that he could not play today. Call it a day, Nole – isn’t 101 titles enough for you. At this rate of trying again and again, he’ll be in a nursing home before long.
Re Serena Williams. I am not interested in women’s tennis. But I know who she is and what she looks like; that she may really be a male in a skirt is not outside the realm of possibility.
I too am shocked that Norrie beat Alcaraz.
As far as Serena Williams is concerned, she and her sister famously got whipped by a 300+ ranked male player straight sets, in consecutive matches. She even once said on a talk show that she has no chance against top men, and loves playing against girls. I don’t think she’s a man, but rather that she doped up and bulked up like mad. Look how slender she was was in old pictures.
Interesting post, Angelo. I think you’re spot on when it comes to exposing the hypocrisy of certain race traitors. As for the issue of whether Sinner is ‘really’ Italian or not – it’s complicated. Is Giorgio Moroder Italian? He was born in a different part of South Tyrol, where they speak Ladin. Is a Friulian with a Slavic surname Italian? What about a Calabrian from Bova with Greek blood and a Greek surname? What about the Walser of Piedmont or Occitan speakers? As far as I’m concerned, any white person living in Italy with at least partial ancestry from what are territories under Italian jurisdiction can consider himself/herself Italian. And that obviously applies to Jannik Sinner.
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