The Curse of Raw Talent: Why Fabio Fognini Is Right (and Wrong) About Tennis’s Next Disruptor

There is a specific kind of arrogance that only a retired veteran or an unrepentant shot-maker can bring to a sports debate. When Fabio Fognini speaks, he rarely offers polite media-training clichés. So when he bypassed Alexander Zverev—a man poised at the threshold of World No. 1 with two Grand Slams under his belt this season—and pointed instead toward a struggling, ranking-depleted Lorenzo Musetti as the true heir apparent to the Sinner-Alcaraz duality, it felt like a deliberate grenade thrown into the ATP discourse.

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