Former Teenage Italian Ski Racer Wins Wimbledon. Again!
12th July 2026
From ski gates to back-to-back Wimbledon champion. Jannik Sinner, once a rising talent on the slopes has done it again by defending his Wimbledon title. NEW
Jannik Sinner comes from the snow-capped Dolomites in the Sud Tirol in northern Italy.
He was a promising racer and may well have made the Italian team as he showed massive potential.
The young Italian was a talented skier from the age of three.
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At eight, he won the national championship in giant slalom and was a national runner-up at 12 years old.
No mean feat.
His ski potential was enormous and it is where he developed his competitive streak.
However, at 13 years old he decided to focus on tennis and moved to Bordighera to train for tennis.
“The reason why I chose tennis was, in tennis you can make mistakes.
“You can lose points but you can still win the match,” Jannik told Vogue in 2024.
“In skiing, if you make one mistake, one big mistake, you cannot win.”
He has long credited his ambition, and work ethic, to his parents who worked in a ski lodge in the Dolomites – his mother a waitress and his father a cook.
Sinner remains a passionate skier.
📍Sexten 🏔
Some deserved relax ⛷️
Mental batteries 📈Forza 🦊 pic.twitter.com/Uo1ezufHoX
— Janniksin_Updates (@JannikSinner_Up) February 22, 2025
The International Ski and Snowboard Federation, FIS, has also noticed and noted his 2026 Wimbledon victory.
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