Meet the Carota Boys, the carrot-clad fan group rooting for Jann
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0 0Meet the Carota Boys, the carrot-clad fan group rooting for Jannik Sinner, Italy’s rising tennis star
Go to a major tennis tournament and it’s hard to miss the Carota Boys, a team of six men decked in full-body, bright-orange carrot costumes. But you might hear them before you see them.
The group of 20-somethings are most likely to be found vociferously supporting world No. 4 Jannik Sinner, who, like them, also heralds from northern Italy.
It’s only over the past seven or so months that the Carota Boys’ love for Sinner has really blossomed, endearing themselves to the tennis public in the process.
“They are more famous than I am, to be honest,” Sinner told reporters during last month’s ATP Tour Finals in Turin, where he was cheered on by his small but dedicated carrot-clad army.
The six childhood friends – Lorenzo Ferrato, Francesco Gaboardi, Gianluca Bertorello, Enrico Ponsi, Alessandro Dedominici, and Alberto Mondino – are all from the northwest Italian town of Revello.
The conception of the Carota Boys originates with the friends’ tradition of buying tickets for tennis tournaments to celebrate each other’s birthdays. That included this year’s Italian Open in Rome, ahead of which they decided to buy carrot costumes for the occasion.
Their inspiration? Sinner had once eaten a carrot (or, in Italian, a carota) during a change of ends at a tournament in Vienna, Austria four years previously, though some drew a connection between the carrots and the tennis star’s orange hair.
Either way, the costumes immediately proved a hit.https://replit.com/@nomjoc
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“Before the match and after the match, a lot of people are going crazy with this idea, they’re asking us for a lot of pictures,” Ferrato tells CNN Sport.
The fan club wasn’t meant to last longer than a weekend, but after Rome, coffee company Lavazza got in touch and asked about the possibility of funding a trip to the French Open in Paris.
Things snowballed from there, and the Carota Boys later found themselves on planes to London for Wimbledon and New York for the US Open, all for the sake of dressing up as carrots and ardently supporting their favorite player. Their year ended closer to home at the ATP Tour Finals, watching Sinner reach the final before losing against Novak Djokovic.
“We found a lot of love for Jannik and for us,” Ferrato says about the atmosphere in Turin. During the tournament, they also had the opportunity to meet and play tennis with Sinner.
“[There was] some correlation between us,” Ferrato adds. “Jannik and all the Carota Boys are born in a place near the mountains. He loves skiing; for us, it’s the same. He loves family and friends and our team, the Carota Boys, it’s about the friendship that we have.”