Life, if you think about it, is made of numbers. An age, a height, a score.
For Cosimo, those numbers have always had a special flavor … the one of tennis. A flavor he learned to recognize from childhood.
At first, among giants, almost a mascot due to his frail physique. But tennis, like life, is not a sprint. It's a marathon.
And step by step, point by point, he runs it with determination.
Small victories, in local tournaments, give way to increasingly important results, and the numbers, as well as the ranking, change ever more rapidly.
Behind it all there are sacrifices, endless travels, and opponents who sometimes make you feel small … again.
But one thing always remains the same: the passion. The same flame that ignited him when he chased a ball with a racket bigger than himself.
"When I hit the ball, it feels like time slows down for a fraction of a second ... then suddenly everything speeds up again and I see the ball hurtling over the net ... in that moment, I feel truly myself … truly alive."
Today, that boy is a man. He's an athlete. And that childhood dream has led him, over time, to his first great achievement: earning one ATP Point.
One.
A number.
A point of arrival, but also, and above all, a starting point.
The beginning, perhaps, of the most beautiful story.
