Novak Djokovic<\/a> as the only \u2060men to have won all nine Masters \u200ctitles.<\/p>\n“Playing at home is always special. Physically, I’m good and there is no reason \u200bnot to play at Rome and I’m happy to be going to Rome; it’s very special to me,” Sinner told a press conference \u200bin Madrid on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“Last year I made a comeback after a difficult period and it certainly gave me a lot emotionally and in terms of support in \u2060general playing there. So I’m \u200bvery happy to be returning there, and on the other hand, winning the tournament isn’t easy; all tournaments are very difficult. So we’ll see how it goes there.<\/p>\n
“But right now, honestly, I’m just thinking about resting mentally for the next 2\u20133 \u200cdays, because I’ve given so much and there’s so, so much energy behind what you put into a tournament, so we’ll see.”<\/p>\n
Sinner, who has underlined his dominance on hardcourts and clay this season, admitted the strain of expectation has been mounting.<\/p>\n
“I want to enjoy this right now. It has been a very, very long tournament. I’m obviously very happy. But now it’s also good to recover, especially mentally, there’s a lot of pressure.”<\/p>\n
Asked about Zverev’s suggestion that there is a sizeable gap between Sinner and the rest of the field, the Italian \u200csaid: “It’s tough to say.<\/p>\n
“Sometimes you have good days, sometimes bad days. Today it \u200bwas a really, really good performance for myself. Very solid serving\u2026 But \u200cI don’t compare myself with other players. I try to be the best possible version of myself, and that’s it.<\/p>\n
“In my opinion, (Zverev) was a bit more tired today, and so when I’m a bit more tired, I tend to be a bit more nervous too. It’s the most normal \u2060thing. I played very solidly on the \u2060key points, I tried to \u200cmake the right choices and then the result was excellent.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresh from making history in Madrid, Jannik Sinner wasted little time turning his thoughts to \u2060completing the ‘Golden…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-648412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}