Pope Francis is offered with a tennis racket by the President of the Italian Tennis Federation Angelo Binaghi, proper, throughout an viewers with athletes within the Paul VI corridor on the Vatican, Friday, Might 8, 2015. Pope Francis congratulated Italy on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024, after tennis participant Jannik Sinner turned the nation’s first man to win a Grand Slam singles title, the Australian Open, in almost a half century. (Alessandra Tarantino/AP)
