janer responds to claims he isn't Italian enough after missing Olympics Janik sinner is back in action after being forced to pull out of the Olympics Janik sinard has hit back at constant claims that he isn't Italian enough after being forced to pull out of the Olympics the world no one skipped the Paris 2024 games with tonsilitus but he is now back in action at the Canadian open where he is the defending champion and sinna hit back at suggestions that he should have attempted the Olympics anyway explaining that he couldn't get out of bed it's not the first time he has attracted backlash for his scheduling decisions there was a storm in Italian media when he pulled out of their Davis Cup group stage Tai last September but sinner returned for the finals in November and helped Italy win the tournament for the first time in 47 years and the noise increased again when he pulled out of the Olympics after coming down with tonsilitis sinner made a winning return to competition in Montreal on Thursday beating borner coric in straight sets and was asked whether he was Fed Up of the claims that he isn't Italian enough the tired 22-year-old addressed the criticism rubbishing any suggestions that he didn't try hard enough to be at the Paris games it's a question I don't even want to have to answer honestly he replied I think only my team and I really know how I felt from the outside it's one thing from the inside it's another I especially know how I felt I had said since the beginning of the year that my biggest goal was the Olympics but unfortunately I wasn't even able to get out of bed then honestly what people think let's say I give it little importance little weight the Australian Open Champion is trying to block out the external chatter but he admitted that he was still privy to some of the lash sin continued I'm not on social media anymore which is something that does me a lot of good then I read some things anyway it's obvious that when you open your phone there are notifications and I see something but I also know who I am as a person and what kind of people I have around me who all care a lot about me unfortunately this time it went like this there will always be some good things and some a little bit worse like this I understand people's reaction I'm but now I'm here in Montreal and what happened happened while CNA didn't make it to Paris it was still a successful Olympic Games for Italian tennis Jasmine palini and Sarah Irani won Gold in women's doubles while lorenzza musetti took home a bronze medal in men's singles and the world know One Believes tennis is in a good place in his country at the moment we are in a very good position you know we saw that in the Olympic Games also it was nice yeah it's just nice to see a huge part of Italian tennis coming into the tennis world mostly we are all very young which is very nice everyone is different player you know it's not that everyone plays in the same way so yeah it's very positive he explained Ain