Pope Leo XIV meets top tennis player Sinner
發佈日期: 2025-05-15 10:54
TVB News
Pope Leo XIV has met with the world's top-ranked tennis player Jannik Sinner.
The Italian player Jannik Sinner visited the new Pope on Wednesday. He gave the pontiff a tennis racket and offered to play.
Leo, the first American pope, is an keen tennis player and fan, and had said earlier this week that he would be up for a charity match when it was suggested by a journalist.
"It's an honour," Sinner said in Italian as he and his parents arrived at a reception room of the Vatican's auditorium. The three-time Grand Slam champion suggested a quick volley. But the pope looked around at the antiques and said, "better not."
Leo, a 69-year-old from Chicago, then appeared to joke about his white cassock and its appropriateness for Wimbledon, perhaps in reference to the All England club's all-white clothing rule.
