No stunt double was required for this shoot—Sinner has been skiing since age 3. Born in South Tyrol in the Dolomites, he grew up around the slopes where his parents worked at a ski resort. He quickly excelled, winning a Junior National Championship in Giant Slalom at age 7 and finishing runner-up nationally at 11.
“I was winning a lot when I was young in skiing, and in tennis I never won,” he told Vogue in 2024. “And then slowly I started to lose in skiing, because physically I was not ready to compete. I was always quite skinny and everything.
“The reason why I chose tennis was, in tennis you can make mistakes. You can lose points, but you can still win the match. In skiing, if you make one mistake, one big mistake, you cannot win.”
