Sinner after saying goodbye to Panichi and Badio: "I'm looking for people I can trust, like my dad"

"There is no specific reason why these changes were made. Nothing sensational happened. The Roland Garros final was an exceptional achievement, regardless of the result. Sometimes you just have to take a slightly different path." This was Jannik Sinner's comment during the press conference on Media Day at Wimbledon, explaining his decision to end his relationship with Marco Panichi and Ulises Badio. "Sometimes things happen. The timing is not the best, but having worked so hard the timing of the decision should not have much of an impact on this tournament, which is special for me. I am ready to play, I am training well. I have not thought about who will arrive, there are many options but it is not the right time to think about this," he added.

The decision, Sinner emphasizes, was made after Halle, a tournament in which he was accompanied by Badio and coach Darren Cahill, which ended with his elimination in the second round against the eventual winner Alexander Bublik. " I didn't have much time to unplug after Roland Garros. It didn't go in the best possible way, but it went. Now I want to play my best tennis possible here ," he commented.

Without thinking, for now, about what will be, about how to form the new team. " I haven't thought about who will arrive , there are many options but it's not the right time to think about this" said Sinner, at Wimbledon with the two coaches Simone Vagnozzi and Cahill together with the osteopath Andrea Cipolla. Clear, however, the profile that whoever enters the team will have to have. "I'm looking for people who also adapt to all the others who are in the team, who can function in the group. I'm looking for honest people, who I can trust. For example, like my dad : if a cook doesn't do well, the others around him in the kitchen don't feel very good". Perhaps Panichi and Badio sinned in this? Or hadn't they brought harmony? "I didn't say this, and that's not the reason", Jannik cuts dryly.