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Worldwide Shock Over Lack of Respect for Sinner in Italy

Diego Jiménez Rubio | 12 Dec 2025 | 09.55
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Sinner and Musetti, in 2025. Photo: gettyimages
Sinner and Musetti, in 2025. Photo: gettyimages

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Jannik Sinner has not been chosen as the Best Italian Athlete of 2025 by the country's most important sports newspaper, Gazzetta dello Sport, whose annual awards have a great media impact. This would already be strange, but it is even more so when realizing that the selected one was another tennis player: Lorenzo Musetti.

It is not because the newspaper is trying to avoid repeating winners in consecutive years, as on other occasions, awards have been given for several years in a row to men like Valentino Rossi or the sprinter Marcell Jacobs. Many interpret this snub to the world number 2 as a covert reprimand for his absence in the Davis Cup and the doping sanction he received, which kept him out of competition for three months.

This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, Estupor mundial por la falta de respeto a Sinner en Italia