"[...]Sinner, fresh from his semifinal appearance in Kazakhstan, arrives in Bergamo ranked No. 546 in the world, accompanied by Andrea Volpini and fitness trainer Dragoljub Kladarin. A small, mysterious object has received one of the three wild cards available to the Italian Tennis Federation to participate in a Challenger tournament, the FAIP-Perrel trophy, where the favorites are all players in the world's top 200, and the top seed is Russian Evgeny Donskoy, No. 96. However, the Bergamo crowd is intrigued by the two other young Italians invited by the FIT: Lorenzo Musetti, who arrives from Melbourne with the Australian Open junior title under his belt, and Giulio Zeppieri, his close friend, who challenged him to the semifinals in Melbourne and also reached the semifinals with him in the doubles tournament. It is no coincidence that Sinner's first round match against Austrian Lucas Miedler, world number 277, was not even scheduled on centre court but on the secondary one. [...] He had played all his matches as an outsider and was also the underdog in the final against Roberto Marcora, world No. 250, then twenty-nine years old, from Busto Arsizio, Lombardy. Yet there was no match against him either: from the quarterfinals onward, Jannik lost a total of 14 games to his opponents. He took that victory, which would represent the beginning of his "great story," as a matter of course. On the evening of that Sunday, February 24th, he went to dinner with Volpini and Kladarin at an all-you-can-eat restaurant. His trainer recalls: "He didn't celebrate at all, he ate little and didn't seem enthusiastic. Just satisfied, but not elated.""
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