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Sexten, Sinner\u2019s hometown, is 40 kilometers from the Austrian border, tucked in a valley in the Italian province of South Tyrol. | Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images for ITF<\/p>\nMonghini said she was drawn to Sinner\u2019s elegance, his maturity and his dedication to hard work. \u201cI spent five years in the mountains. I understand a bit what the type is like. They get straight to the point, don\u2019t make a fuss, keep moving toward their goal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Carlo Romeo, a historian of the region, called him a \u201csymbol of Italian society\u2019s multiculturalism.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe decades ago he wouldn\u2019t have been seen as properly Italian, as more Austrian. Today this identity is fully accepted,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Sexten, Sinner\u2019s hometown, is 40 kilometers from the Austrian border, tucked in a valley in the Italian province of South Tyrol. | Clive Brunskill\/Getty Images for ITF<\/p>\n
Saint or Sinner?\u00a0<\/p>\n
For all the praise, Sinner isn\u2019t without his critics.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the year, writing in one of Italy\u2019s leading papers, La Repubblica, journalist Corrado Augias labeled him a \u201creluctant Italian<\/a>.\u201d He pointed to Sinner\u2019s decision to turn down an invitation to meet Italy\u2019s President Sergio Mattarella, pleading tiredness.\u00a0Sinner has, however, met Meloni on multiple occasions to celebrate successes.<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s his taxes. He may sport an Italian flag in his Instagram profile, but Sinner, already worth<\/a> upwards of $30 million, is domiciled in the micro-state of Monaco, a magnet for the ultra-rich \u2014 including several tennis stars \u2014 seeking to reduce their tax burden. Sinner has claimed he feels at home there, but the multi-millionaire\u2019s\u00a0 refusal to pay into Italy\u2019s state coffers has irked some members of the commentariat<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monghini said she was drawn to Sinner\u2019s elegance, his maturity and his dedication to hard work. \u201cI spent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[6793,71659,22517,4553,1127,2302,690,8649,1070,11349,71660,6801,34358,30725,71236,9581,71661,71662,1079,99,13646,3733,428,21,1139],"class_list":["post-108966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-austria","tag-borders","tag-bridges","tag-career","tag-conflict","tag-courts","tag-culture","tag-democracy","tag-elections","tag-giorgia-meloni","tag-italian-politics","tag-italy","tag-mayors","tag-monaco","tag-regions-cohesion","tag-rights","tag-sergio-mattarella","tag-society-and-culture","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-switzerland","tag-tax","tag-tennis","tag-united-states","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}