Sinner is not alone in winning titles in Italy: in March, Luciano Darderi and Flavio Cobolli won the same week, in Marrakech for the first and Bucharest for the second, while Lorenzo Musetti joined the world top 10 (9th) after his final in Monte-Carlo and his semi-final in Madrid.
From eight titles to 31
“Italian tennis clearly lives a golden age,” sums up Filippo Volandri who, in charge of the Italian team, won the last two editions of the Davis Cup, more than forty years after the first Italian coronation (1976).
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To illustrate this remarks, Volandri, in charge of the high male level within the Italian Federation (FitP) for nine years, draws from his phone a graphic: between 2005 and 2015, eight ATP tournaments (including seven ATP 250, the lowest category) were won by Italians, against 31 between 2016 and 2025, including five Masters 1000 and three Grand Slam tournaments.
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Sinner, 23, weighs on his own nineteen titles, including three major titles, but insists Volandri, “Jannik is the son of a movement which had already been initiated by Berrettini with his final in Wimbledon [en 2021 ; NDLR]a system that works ”. This system is based on “decentralization” implemented in the late 1990s, explains Michelangelo Dell’Edera. “Each department has its federal coach who takes care of children aged 8, 9 and 10, each region has its federal framework in charge of 11-16 year olds,” explains the director of the Higher FitP training institute.
The passage then by the National Training Center of Tirrenia, located not far from Pisa, is no longer compulsory.
French decentralization
Italian tennis, currently represented by nine players in the world top 100 (10 for France and the United States), does not hide having inspired itself from the French model, but why since France has been waiting since 1983 that one of its representatives has won a Grand Chelem title? “We are lucky,” says Michelangelo Dell’Edera, to have continuity in projects and vision with a president, Angelo Binaghi, in office since 2001 “. The Italian Renaissance is also a change in training methods and style of play.
“To make a comparison with another sport, enlightens the trainer, we went from the marathon, where the Italian players investigated the forehands and backhands, at the 100m, a“ speed tennis ”, where the importance is given to the service and the return of service which are the two strokes which determine the gain of a point”.
