{"id":732055,"date":"2026-06-29T02:08:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/732055\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T02:08:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T02:08:19","slug":"tennis-star-jannik-sinner-where-is-he-from-what-to-know-before-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/732055\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Star Jannik Sinner: Where Is He From? What to Know Before Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He was a champion junior skier, but at 13 he left home to train at the Piatti Tennis Centre in Bordighera, hundreds of miles away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The truth is, as soon as I got there, I started crying,&#8221; Sinner told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.it\/article\/jannik-sinner-intervista-tennis-sport-famiglia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vanity Fair Italia<\/a> in 2024 (as translated into English). &#8220;I called [my parents] after two hours, and they must have thought, &#8216;Here, we have to go get him.&#8217; But instead, I told them to stay calm, that everything was fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After winning the 2026 Madrid Open on Mother&#8217;s Day, he called mom Siglinde Sinner, who waitressed at a ski lodge when he was a kid, and his dad Hanspeter Sinner, the lodge&#8217;s chef, &#8220;a true inspiration.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just try to be a little bit like them,&#8221; he said during a post-match news conference, &#8220;because then I know that I&#8217;m a good person.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He was a champion junior skier, but at 13 he left home to train at the Piatti Tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-732055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732055","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=732055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}