Sinner the most boring Italian Tennis player

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To the ones stating "he is German" - Italy is such anarrow and long Country and we have so many different and old cultures here; people from extreme south my be living in Africa and people from extreme north may be living in Iceland. You travel 50 miles north/west/south/east and the local dialect is changing so much as is food and wine... So what?

One of the funny things is that those clever people don’t bring up Wawrinka, Federer, Monfils or Tiafoe. In the latter two case both parents were from far-away places and in the former we have a German and a South African parent.

If we would follow their rather stupid template we had to call Francis the Sierra Leones.
 
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I support Musetti like all Italian players, but as a player he doesn't drive me crazy.
He is clearly one of the most elegant and classy tennis players among active players, great manual skills, but the fact that he is not consistent and at the same time has a game that is not very solid and very often passive, as well as an attitude that is anything but perfect, means that he is not among my favorite players in terms of my tennis tastes.

I much prefer Berrettini's warrior character and his very schematic but extremely solid style of play.

Then again, those who say that Sinner is a boring player evidently have tastes that are definitely opposite to mine.
Although his game may seem very robotic, Sinner is a proactive player with his constant pressure from the back of the court, a type of player who does not speculate on the opponents' errors but is more inclined to generate a winner.
From this point of view he is clearly a more exciting player than Musetti and the nature of a backcourt rower, what we call it in Italy "pallettari".
 

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As for Sinner's Italianness, we always have to repeat the same things.
His ethnicity is Austrian but he is Italian because South Tyrol has been part of Italy for several decades, so I don't understand what is so difficult to understand in all this.
If someone doesn't like the fact that South Tyrol is part of Italy, write a letter of protest to the UN.
Also because if we are to argue about the sense of belonging of the various lands, the nations as we know them today simply wouldn't exist.

But then the hilarious thing is that tennis is one of the sports with the most multiracial protagonists.
According to some geniuses on the forum, is De Minaur Australian or Spanish?
Tsitsipas Greek or Russian?
Zverev German or Russian?
Shapovalov Canadian or Russian/Israeli?
Sampras American or Greek?
Agassi American or Iranian?
Berrettini Italian or Brazilian?
Chang American or Taiwanese?
FAA Canadian or Togolese?
McEnroe American or Irish?
Tiafoe American or Sierra Leonean?
Korda American or Czech?
Alcaraz himself, if I'm not mistaken, has Arab descent on his father's side (and his and his father's features also make us suspect this).

Ergo, why only Sinner's Italianness is discussed remains a mystery, even more so when he has always said he feels Italian and is proud of it even if his mother tongue is German.
I bet that in this forum no one has ever discussed Seppi's Italianness even though he in turn comes from the same land as Sinner, perhaps because Seppi is a more Italian surname or simply because Seppi did not become number 1 in the world.
In fact, for the Austrians themselves, Sinner is the South Tyrolean when he wins and the Italian when he loses.
 

Mainad

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As for Sinner's Italianness, we always have to repeat the same things.
His ethnicity is Austrian but he is Italian because South Tyrol has been part of Italy for several decades, so I don't understand what is so difficult to understand in all this.
If someone doesn't like the fact that South Tyrol is part of Italy, write a letter of protest to the UN.
Also because if we are to argue about the sense of belonging of the various lands, the nations as we know them today simply wouldn't exist.

But then the hilarious thing is that tennis is one of the sports with the most multiracial protagonists.
According to some geniuses on the forum, is De Minaur Australian or Spanish?
Tsitsipas Greek or Russian?
Zverev German or Russian?
Shapovalov Canadian or Russian/Israeli?
Sampras American or Greek?
Agassi American or Iranian?
Berrettini Italian or Brazilian?
Chang American or Taiwanese?
FAA Canadian or Togolese?
McEnroe American or Irish?
Tiafoe American or Sierra Leonean?
Korda American or Czech?
Alcaraz himself, if I'm not mistaken, has Arab descent on his father's side (and his and his father's features also make us suspect this).

Ergo, why only Sinner's Italianness is discussed remains a mystery, even more so when he has always said he feels Italian and is proud of it even if his mother tongue is German.
I bet that in this forum no one has ever discussed Seppi's Italianness even though he in turn comes from the same land as Sinner, perhaps because Seppi is a more Italian surname or simply because Seppi did not become number 1 in the world.
In fact, for the Austrians themselves, Sinner is the South Tyrolean when he wins and the Italian when he loses.

Interesting about Alcaraz's surname. Historically there has been a great deal of Arab influence in the Iberian peninsula via the Moors and words and names beginning with "Al" usually indicate an Arabic origin eg. algebra (al-Jibr), alcohol (al-kuhl) etc.
 
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