Sinner trains with Djokovic at Wimbledon Central

From our correspondent, David Cinnellato

June 29th

– London

Forty-five minutes on Wimbledon Central, still deserted, to re-taste the London turf and get ready for next week’s big event. Novak Djokovic and Janik Sinner were the stars of Thursday’s training on Church Street, and are still preparing for the Grand Slam, which begins on Monday.

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For both of them it was the dress-up rehearsal before the tournament to try to be the ultimate protagonist: Djokovic looking for a Grand Slam record, an important result on the biggest stage. In white, as tradition dictates, each accompanied by 4 members of their crew (led by Ivanisevic for Nole and Vagnozzi for Jannik), Djokovic and Sinner first warmed up between selfies and smiles for about ten minutes, then simulated a small match, with the King of Wimbledon 2022 muttering In himself in Serbian, not entirely convinced of his performance, the blue young man who knocked out a string of “Bravo” (in Italian) from his opponent. Sinner was leading when, 5′ from the end, the two began simulating a tie breaker. And there it is impossible to understand who won, even for two like them who know exactly where the shots fall: at one point Siner approached the referee to see if a shot from Djokovic was here or just over the line; Immediately afterwards, Andy Murray led the eagerly awaited group down the world’s most famous tennis court in 45 minutes of preparation. “Good luck, it was a pleasure to see you,” Noll said to Sinner in Italian at the end, shaking his hand. Who knows if they will meet again when things get serious. Meanwhile, tomorrow they will find out the draw, where No. 2 seed Djokovic and No. 8 Sinner. If they are opponents again in the middle, it means that they will go far ahead.