Sinner, when the n.1 tennis player in the world loses, darkness falls on San Candido but love becomes greater

At six in the evening of Tuesday 9 July, on San Candido, the town in the Pusteria Valley where Jannik Sinner was born on August 16, 2001, the curtain fell and metaphorically the light that always animates the main square went out. In front of the television screens, where tourists and residents crowded together and never failed to give their golden encouragement to the Italian champion, it had been clear for some time that Jannik, pale as a sheet, was not having a day. But until the end everyone hoped for a miracle. When a Wimbledon the defeat became inexorable, silence enveloped the square. But when a champion gives everything and fights to the end even if he's sick, the love for Sinner becomes even greater. The owner of one of the bars in the central square of San Candido where the champion's father often goes to have coffee says: "Today we are all sad but Jannik has proven to be a great champion even when he is ill and when he loses: he could have retired and not 'he did, he complimented Medvedev and he calmly showed up at the press conference to explain what had happened to him." A champion that San Candido adores. Like all theItaly.