Rick Macci is a coach who knows about great champions. In his legendary career he trained Andy Roddick, Jennifer Capriati, Maria Sharapova and, above all, the sisters Venus and Serena Williams. The American coach has now praised Jannik Sinner, calling him the player who changed tennis.
2024 has given the young Italian many joys in terms of results, while he has experienced really complicated moments related to the Clostebol doping issue. After WADA appealed to CAS against the acquittal of the ATP No.1 by ITIA, Jannik’s fate will be decided after mid-February 2025: it will be a long wait for him and his staff, who in the meantime have received the compliments of a great coach like Macci.
“Sinner has changed tennis with the firepower of his shots and the changes he has made to his forehand. He has a tendency to overdo the inversion of the racket face and now his momentum and thrust when swinging are even more explosive, and he hits the ball so early that he gets the most out of what can be done,” wrote Macci in a post X.
The real goal that Sinner will try to achieve in early 2025 is the defense of his title at the Australian Open. Last year he thrilled everyone by winning the first Slam of his career at the end of a final in which he completed an incredible comeback against…