2024 US Open: Sinner Man Where You Gonna Run To?
Jannik Sinner has been exonerated but fallout from his drug testing scandal lingers. The ATP's No. 1 player seeks a US Open title and a reset on his reputation.
Anyone who grew up in a black church, as I did, heard the saints sing Sinner Man, an old Negro spiritual about someone trying to hide from their sins on judgment day.
Jannik Sinner grew up in Italy, near the Austrian border, not a hotbed for Negro spirituals. Yet, Sinner doesn't have to go to church to hear the chorus of people questioning the circumstan…
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