Home, sweet home: Sinner celebrates World No. 1 in 'special' hometown visit

pHome, sweet home./ppa href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jannik-sinner/s0ag/overview'Jannik Sinner/a returned to his hometown of Sexten in northern Italy Tuesday to continue the celebration of his ascent to No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings. The 22-year-old was warmly received by a large contingent of media and local residents./ppldquo;It's always an amazing feeling going back where I was born, where my family raised me. It's always a special feeling,rdquo; Sinner said ahead of the trip. ldquo;Coming home, I always have my memories in my head, going to ski and seeing myself with friends playing as a little kid and child. Always coming back to that place is special. /ppldquo;It makes me feel home, it makes me feel very happy where I am from and very proud. Giving something back to this beautiful place, it's something truly amazing.rdquo;/ppnbsp;/pdiv class="riddle2-wrapper" data-rid-id="FuedAAJC" data-auto-scroll="true" data-is-fixed-height-enabled="false" data-bg="#fff" data-fg="#00205b" style="margin:0 auto; max-width:100%; width:640px;"script src="https://www.riddle.com/embed/build-embedjs/embedV2.js"/scriptiframe src="https://www.riddle.com/embed/a/FuedAAJC?lazyImages=falseamp;staticHeight=false" allow="autoplay" referrerpolicy="strict-origin"section data-block="SingleChoice"h3a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jannik-sinner/s0ag/overview'Jannik Sinner/a became World No. 1 for the first time on Monday 10 June. How many players have reached World No. 1?/h3ul li22/li li24/li li29/li/ul/sectionsection data-block="SingleChoice"h3Sinner is the first player from which country to climb to the pinnacle of menamp;#039;s tennis?/h3ul liAustria/li liItaly/li liGermany/li/ul/sectionsection data-block="SingleChoice"h3How many active players have reached World No. 1?/h3ul li6/li li7/li li8/li/ul/sectionsection data-block="SingleChoice"h3Jannik reached No. 1 based on his performance over the past 52 weeks. How many titles did he win during that time?/h3ul li3/li li6/li li7/li/ul/sectionsection data-block="SingleChoice"h3Several former No. 1s congratulated Jannik on his accomplishment. Who told him, amp;quot;Hereamp;#039;s kind of a cool way to look at it. If the universe had a tennis tournament, Earth would pick you.amp;quot;?/h3ul lia href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/roger-federer/f324/overview'Roger Federer/a/li lia href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/andy-roddick/r485/overview'Andy Roddick/a/li lia href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/andre-agassi/a092/overview'Andre Agassi/a/li/ul/section/iframe/divpSinner became the first Italian singles player, man or woman, to reach the pinnacle of tennis since the inception of computerised rankings in 1973. /ppldquo;I think the reaction in Italy will be great. They gave me so much energy, especially in the moments where I was struggling. Sharing this moment with them and with all the people who support me, it's amazing,rdquo; Sinner said. ldquo;I was always looking forward to giving something back to the people who helped me and share success with them. And now I can share this World No. 1, which is the ultimate goal for every player, with the whole country. It's one of the best feelings.rdquo;/pblockquote class="twitter-tweet"p lang="en" dir="ltr"The No.1 club called, and the former No.1rsquo;s are so glad you answered, Jannik ❤️br /br /

Hard work and perseverance got him here, and now the legends of the game unite to welcome their newest member????a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/S1NNER?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#S1NNER/a | a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PIF?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#PIF/a | a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ATPRankings?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#ATPRankings/a | a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/partner?src=hashamp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"#partner/a a href="https://t.co/Ko1nd6Ij8t"pic.twitter.com/Ko1nd6Ij8t/a/pmdash; ATP Tour (@atptour) a href="https://twitter.com/atptour/status/1800234652721914247?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"June 10, 2024/a/blockquotescript async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"/scriptpThe World No. 1 was received at a special welcome ceremony by local officials including Sexten mayor Thomas Summerer. Sinner signed the golden book of his hometown, which the town only uses for the most special events. He was the first to sign it./ppimg src="/-/media/images/news/2024/06/11/20/31/sinner-world-no-1-sexten.jpg" style="width:100%;" alt="a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jannik-sinner/s0ag/overview'Jannik Sinner/a" /br /emsupPhoto Credit: Corinne Dubreuil/ATP Tourbr //sup/emThe superstar also visited Tennishalle Sexten, the tennis centre where he first began to play tennis. Sinner met with the many kids there to greet him, answered questions for the crowd and also spoke to the media./pp/pp[NEWSLETTER FORM]/p