Thus Sinner also beat the falsehood of social media
Jannik Sinner destroys the inconsistency of social media with an example that is as elementary as it is incisive: if I feel bad, I can't pretend to feel good. Guiglia's notebook
Jannik Sinner snatches the point of the match first with an unstoppable forehand ("I don't like social media, the truth isn't there", he hits hard) then with a lethal backhand for whoever receives it (read Amadeus): "I'll be rooting for Sanremo from home."
Therefore, no participation in the Italian song festival, as had been requested by the variously represented television populism.
The fresh winner of the Australian Slam won't go there, not because he doesn't know how to sing or dance, as he had specified. Simply, because he has to work, that is, train, and duty first, then pleasure.
This is what they said in a distant time, that time that this champion today reinterprets with the education and normality of a boy who lives as he plays: with his feet firmly planted on the ground.
SINNER'S WARNING TO YOUNG PEOPLE: BEWARE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS
During the first press conference in Italy after the triumph in Melbourne, the red-haired champion and new sporting idol given his talent, but above all his just 22 years of age, sends an almost tender message to all the kids: "Be careful , social media makes you see something else. Maybe I'm sick, I'm crying, but I post a happy photo on social media."
Jannik destroys the inconsistency of social media with an example that is as elementary as it is incisive: if I feel bad, I can't pretend to feel good.
In the eternal Italy of Guelphs and Ghibellines, there will be no shortage of those who will say that Ferragni's party is over there and Sinner's party is over here. The ephemeral world of "likes" versus that which does not like to live "influenced" by the vague, the emptiness and the vain.
Points of view, sure. But the Italy that applauds Sinner's words finally finds a famous and non-smoky voice, far from any politics, in which to recognize itself: we don't live on social media alone.
With the same frankness the good Jannik announces that he will desert the singing event broadcast worldwide, for which sportsmen, artists, poets, saints and navigators would do anything to be there.
The champion then explains that he is happy to stay in Monte Carlo to face tennis players of his level (almost everyone trains there), that is, for sporting reasons and not just economic ones. Thus responding to those who reproach him, sometimes with irritation and disbelief, more often just for the sake of controversy, for not having tax residence in Italy.
But objecting is easy: it is precisely Italian law that, under certain and verifiable conditions, allows this. It being understood that, wherever he resides, Italy still derives a great direct and indirect economic benefit from the Sinner effect. So much so that the Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, has just appointed him "ambassador of diplomacy and sport".
Today with the entire Italian tennis team that brought the Davis Cup back to Italy after 47 years, Jannik Sinner will be received by the President of the Republic, Sergio Mattarella, at the Quirinale. World champions.
(Published in L'Arena di Verona, Il Giornale di Vicenza, Bresciaoggi and Gazzetta di Mantova)
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/jannik-sinner-social-network-sanremo/ on Sat, 10 Feb 2024 06:30:02 +0000.