Here was the world's No. 1-ranked men's tennis player, Jannik Sinner, on the eve of Wimbledon with the stage to himself.
Since before last month's French Open, Sinner has volunteered to be one of the faces of a player protest — if you can really call it that — over the percentage of revenue the four Grand Slam tournaments are allocating for prize money. So you'd think that as defending Wimbledon champion, the pre-tournament press conference would be an opportune time for Sinner to pound his fist on the table and talk about how unfairly players are being treated and what the next steps might be if they don't get what they want.
And then, when the subject inevitably was raised Saturday, Sinner came up even smaller than he did at Roland Garros last month when he collapsed from two sets up in the Paris heat.
"I think we talked enough about this at the moment," Sinner told reporters. "The Grand Slams know what we ask, and then (we'll) see how that goes.
"I'm here now to talk about tennis."
Since before last month's French Open, Sinner has volunteered to be one of the faces of a player protest — if you can really call it that — over the percentage of revenue the four Grand Slam tournaments are allocating for prize money. So you'd think that as defending Wimbledon champion, the pre-tournament press conference would be an opportune time for Sinner to pound his fist on the table and talk about how unfairly players are being treated and what the next steps might be if they don't get what they want.
And then, when the subject inevitably was raised Saturday, Sinner came up even smaller than he did at Roland Garros last month when he collapsed from two sets up in the Paris heat.
"I think we talked enough about this at the moment," Sinner told reporters. "The Grand Slams know what we ask, and then (we'll) see how that goes.
"I'm here now to talk about tennis."
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