Jannik Sinner is back. Free than ever. Without sanction and with a return in style in Rome. And the Italian capital tournament exploits collective madness by the redhead. The “Sinnermanía” increased ticket sale, reformed and expanded the Italian forum for the event, in addition, the Bag of Awards for Tennists, although the question that is asked now is: Is the time to buy Madrid for 550 million and make a fifth Grand Slam?
It is the best moment in the history of Italian tennis. Davis Cup champion and Billie Jean Kean Cup, and with Sinner as a maximum exponent, the fervor for the racket pushed Italy to raise its commitment to an increasingly popular sport in the country and seeks to destroy even football.
Organizer of the ATP Finals, of the 1,000 and WTA 1,000 Rome Masters and from 2025 also of the Davis Cup, Italy now improved the enclosure in which Sinnene will reappear after its sanction of 3 months agreed with the World Anti -Doping Association for a positive double in Indian Wells in 2024, which, according to the sanction, was involuntary and did not affect its sports performance.
Improvements in the Italian photo and greater capacity of spectators
The Italic forum, an enclosure that hosts the 1,000 masters from Rome until May 18, will be this year double as last editions. More clues than ever in the history of the competition. And will receive around 400,000 spectators.
The size of the enclosure consisted of ten hectares. This year is double, 20. Before it housed about 33 thousand people a day. Now you can host 55,000. In addition, there will be an increase in the number of game fields: this year there will be 21.4 more compared to 2024.
“This year we aspire to 400,000 spectators and in two or three years we want to exceed one billion euros of impact on the territory,” said Angelo Binaghi, president of the Italian Tennis Federation when he announced the reform of the forum in March.
A very ambitious, but plausible goal. Italian fans buy tickets for the event almost a year in advance. In January more than 40% had already been sold compared to the 2024 edition.
They don’t want to miss a synner-alcaraz. They also have a second line of tennis players who move to the dough: Berrettini, Cobolli, Nardi, Sonego, Musseti, Arnaldi … even these days, in the enclosure, children run crazy from one training track to another to see the Italian young people. It is a collective madness.
“We have discovered that outdoor tennis is the sport with the greatest social value in Italy, each inverted euro generates 5.3. That is why I call Sport and Salute (public company in charge of the development of sport in Italy), which is doing many children’s parks in the country with a lot of merit, but perhaps at this time it would also be convenient to make tennis clues, paddlers and pickelball,” the president asked.
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Rome, fifth Grand Slam buying Madrid for 550 million?
“Our challenge is to grow, let’s be patients. We are seconds behind football and behind the Grand Slam of a lifetime, but we don’t want to stay there,” Binaghi revealed.
“As Sinner, we want to try to reach the top, it is our only goal. But I think this great enthusiasm makes us run too quickly,” said the president.
The truth is that from Italy there has been that possibility for a long time. So much that in each possible press conference the authorities are asked about a possible purchase of the Madrid tournament. The newspaper “La Stampa”, in fact, leaked that there was already a firm proposal of the Italian Federation of 550 million.
Everything, the investment in minor tournaments, in young tennis players, in the development of infrastructure and the results obtained point there, to the fifth large in Rome.
The awards this year, in addition, are more succulent so that the most important players do not get off. It is already an event well located on the calendar, preparative for Roland Garros. Only Djokovic decided to stay out.
Last year the winner agreed 963,000 euros. This year there are 22,000 euros more, a total of 985,030. For the finalist there were 512,260 and now there are 523,870.
With EFE information
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