Sports Saturday with San Remo and the Six Nations, waiting for the Sinner-Alcaraz super challenge
Rugby Italy, fresh from its victory over Scotland, faces Wales. In cycling, all eyes are on the classic spring monument. In tennis, the two talents ready to challenge Djokovic
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Two luxury starters and then the main course. Saturday sporting Saturday sees an intense extra-football programme: Rugby Italy is engaged in Cardiff, Wales, against the hosts for the Six Nations tournament. And expectations are not low after the draw snatched at home by France and, above all, the victory against Scotland.
Saturday's programme also includes the first of the so-called 'monumental classics' of cycling: the Milano-Sanremo . Italian hopes are linked above all to the sprinter Jonathan Milan, the Tuscan Alberto Bettiol - fresh winner of the Milano-Torino a few days ago - and the Piedmontese time trial and track phenomenon Filippo Ganna. Italian hopes are high, therefore, even if the foreign competition seems, at least on paper, to be of a different level (also in terms of form): from Tadej Pogacar - who won at the Strade Bianche after an 81-kilometre breakaway! - to Mathieu Van Der Poel (reigning world champion). At Sanremo, however, the favourites or the fittest do not always win.
If these are the appetisers, the main course of the evening is tennis, with the 9.30 pm match between Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz at the Indian Wells tournament. The two, rivals and friends, are an expression of the new advancement in world tennis, and the match is worth the number 2 spot in the Atp ranking. Alcaraz already holds it, Sinner is chasing it. Whoever wins takes it and brings Djokovic closer.
