Jannik Sinner collected $3.15million when he took the n Open title on Sunday night – and judging by what he wore to the winner’s traditional photo shoot, he’ll be spending it on high fashion.
The 22-year-old posed for the cameras with the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens on Monday, just a short walk from Rod Laver Arena.
While women’s champion Aryna Sabalenka went for a striking all-white outfit for her photo shoot on Sunday, Sinner appeared more casually dressed in a white T-shirt, cardigan, blue pants and Nike sneakers – but looks can be deceiving.
His top is actually a Gucci woolen cardigan that is selling for a staggering $3,900 at designer clothing retailer Farfetch.
Sinner looked like he was cutting a very casual figure with his fashion choices when he posed with the Norman Brookes Challenge Cup on Monday
However, appearances can be deceiving, as he was wearing a very expensive item of clothing
The Italian star was sporting a Gucci cardigan that cost as much as some used cars – going for almost $4,000 at designer fashion retailer Farfetch (pictured)
Basking in his victory, the newly crowned grand slam champion said his journey to the top had been ‘quite fast’.
But the rapid rate of his improvement over the past 12 months, which includes helping his country seal the Davis Cup over last year and then taking down Novak Djokovic on the way to his maiden grand slam crown, is only going to intensify.
He said he liked to ‘dance in the pressure storm’, well aware becoming a major champion means you become the hunted, and knew he had to ‘keep working’ if he was to climb the mountain again.
‘Sitting here with this trophy now, watching it, it’s one of the biggest trophies we have in our sport, so I’m really happy that I can share this with my team today,’ he said in the wake of becoming the first Italian man to win a grand slam since Adriano Panatta raised the French Open trophy in 1976.
‘But in the other way I also know that I have to keep working for other occasions.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said Sinner ‘wrote a new page of history’ when he won a classic five-setter to beat Daniil Medvedev in the final
Sinner said he knows he has to keep improving because now that he’s won his first grand slam, he’s no longer the hunter, but the hunted
‘I feel grateful to have this here, but I know that I have to work even harder because the opponents, they will find the way to beat me and I have to be prepared.
‘There is always pressure, but the pressure is something good. You have to take it in a good way. It’s a privilege, no? Because there are not so many players who have this kind of pressure, but in the other way, when you have pressure, it’s always, OK, he believes that I can really do it.
‘So yes, I like to dance in the pressure storm. I don’t know how to tell. Like me personally, I like it because that’s where most of the time I bring out my best tennis. I’m also quite relaxed in this occasion because I always try to enjoy on the court.’
Sinner’s victory was lauded by Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni, who declared he ‘wrote a new page of history today that fills us with pride. It’s an achievement worthy of a real champion.’
The 22-year-old sparked joyous scenes when he climbed into his players’ box to celebrate with his team after defeating Daniil Medvedev on Sunday night (pictured)
Asked if he even knew at 14 that he had the talent to achieve great things, Sinner said it was hard to answer, but he knew there was something special going on when he hit the ball.
‘It’s magic, you know,’ he said.
‘It’s tough to understand when someone says, ‘Look, you are special or you’re a good player’, because you know only yourself.
‘I’m extremely happy that I am in this position now. Let’s see what’s coming in the future.’