Italian world number one had a private audience with the newly elected pontiff and gave him a tennis racket
The Italian tennis player Jannik Sinner has met Pope Leo XIV, a few days after the newly elected pontiff, who is passionate about tennis, confessed that he wouldn’t want to face a match with the world number one.
Along with his parents, Sinner, who is currently taking part in the Italian Open tennis tournament in Rome, had a private audience with Leo on Wednesday in a room next to the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall.
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