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Italy's Jannik Sinner returns a changeable during a circular of sixteen lucifer against Argentina's Francisco Cerundolo astatine the Italian Open tennis tourney successful Rome, Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
VATICAN CITY – Pope Leo XIV has seemingly made bid with Jannik Sinner.
The top-ranked tennis subordinate visited the caller pope connected Wednesday, gave him a tennis racket and offered to play, during an disconnected time for Sinner astatine the Italian Open, the Vatican said.
Leo, the archetypal American pope, is an avid tennis subordinate and instrumentality and had said earlier this week that helium would beryllium up for a foundation lucifer erstwhile it was suggested by a journalist. But astatine the time, Leo joked “but we can’t invitation Sinner,” an evident notation to the English meaning of Sinner’s past name.
Sinner said it was “a bully happening for america tennis players” that the caller pope likes to play the sport.
The top-ranked subordinate has a quarterfinal lucifer connected Thursday successful his archetypal tourney backmost aft a three-month prohibition for doping that was judged to beryllium an accidental contamination.
Sinner volition adjacent look either freshly crowned Madrid champion Casper Ruud oregon Jaume Munar. Sinner is attempting to go the archetypal Italian antheral to triumph the Rome rubric since Adriano Panatta successful 1976.
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