“I tried to annoy the Italian , to disturb him, to make him nervous…”. Jannik Sinner , in the US Open final won against Taylor Fritz last Sunday, had to deal with the hostile – and not always correct – cheering of a special spectator. In a box of the Arthur Ashe Stadium, as is known, Taylor Swift , the pop superstar, also sat down with her boyfriend Travis Kelce. The football player, tight end of the Kansas City Chiefs, NFL champions, stood out for his ‘sophisticated’ look – not exactly in line with his character – and for his not exactly exemplary behavior.
“For the second time I went to a tennis match. The match was very quiet and when there is silence we want to say something…”, Kelce says in the podcast with his brother Jason, a former NFL player with the Philadelphia Eagles. “I’m not a calm person, I’ve never been calm. In school I was always the one in the back row who said something clever or tried to make everyone laugh when there was silence. So the whole time, I wanted to annoy the Italian, Sinner, the number 1 in the world .” And what did he do? “I wanted to help create the home court advantage… I behaved well, I was respectful: if I had overdone it, they would have asked me to leave. I only let loose during breaks when the music was loud.” Whatever he did, Kelce did not even remotely achieve his goal: Sinner demolished his opponent in 3 sets and took the trophy. Kelce went home with his high-level club look. An outfit that surprised his brother Jason: “You looked like you were dressed for a country club…” “It was tennis, what was I supposed to do?”
