Papa Leo XIV has made peace with JANNIK SINNER.
The top tennis player visited new pope On Wednesday he gave him a tennis racket and offered to play, during the day out of the sinner in Italian open.
Leo, the first American pope, is a Avid Tennis player and a fan and said earlier this week that he would be in a charity match when he proposed it a journalist.
But at the time, Leo was kidding, “but we can’t call the sinner,” the English meaning is apparently reference to the Surname Surname.
By Wednesday, everyone seemed forgotten.
“Honor is,” Sinner said as he and his parents arrived at the reception VaticanAuditorium. Holding one of his rackets and giving Lea another and the ball, Sinner suggested a quick volley. But the Pope looked at the antiques and said, “Better not.”
Leo, a 69-year-old from Chicago, appeared to be joking about his white cassock and suitability for Wimbledonnoticing All England ClubThe rule of completely white clothes.
He asked how the Italian opening was going. “I’m in the game now,” Sinner said. “At the beginning of the tournament was a little hard.”
The most popular player has Thursday quarterfinal match In his First tournament back After a Quarterly ban on doping It is rated to be Random contamination.
Sinner will be the following face Fresh crowned Madrid Champion Casper Ruud Or jaume men. Sinner tries to become the first Italian man who would win in Rome Title from Adriano Panatta in 1976. years.
During the audience, Angelo Binaghi, the head of the Italian Federation of Tennis and Padel, gave Leo card an honorary Federation. Inside the room was a Davis Cup Trophy, which the sinner helped Italy to win the second time in a row last year.
Earlier in the week, after Leo’s first quip didn’t want to call him, Sinner said it was “a good thing for American tennis players” that the new Pope likes to play sports.
Next to Tennis, Leo is Avid Chicago White Sox Baseball fan.
His predecessor, Papa FrancisHe was a lifelong fan of Buenos Aires Football Club San Lorenzo.
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