Diary of a new World No. 1: Jannik Sinner returns home

pThere is no place like home. That showed when a href='https://www.atptour.com/en/players/jannik-sinner/s0ag/overview'Jannik Sinner/a returned to his hometown of Sexten in the Dolomites last week to celebrate his ascent to the top of the PIF ATP Rankings./p

pldquo;If you imagine coming from here, a tennis player, itrsquo;s very, very strange,rdquo; Sinner said in a special behind-the-scenes documentary of the first Italian World No. 1rsquo;s visit./p

pThe 22-year-old provided a film crew unprecedented access throughout his trip. Sinner gave fans a look at his life growing up in the mountains. The special feature helps tell the story of how Sinner evolved from a kid in a small town known for skiing to the best tennis player in the world. /p

pldquo;I have my house here, and here is the other house with [my] grandma and grandpa and they always cooked for me and then after, I had to wear the ski stuff because I went to skiing immediately from two to four, and then twice a week I was playing tennis and that was it,rdquo; Sinner said. ldquo;You got it on camera!"/p

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pThe Italian added: ldquo;We played football and we were all the time together with friends and nobody had a phone. We only had a watch and the parents they said, lsquo;Look, at five you should be at homersquo;. And sometimes you arrived at 5:15 and then the parents, they got p****d a little bit!rdquo;/p

pWatch the full documentary above and click here to read about all the players who have reached No. 1 in the PIF ATP Rankings./p

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