'Sinner' what a surname!!
@allknowing (149457)
India
July 13, 2025 8:29pm CST
No doubt Jannik Sinner won the Wikbledon Title but I am just thinking how he faced the world with this surname specially as a kid in school.
I am sure he must must have been teased no end. And how he coped with it could well be his way to ignore and move on.and win the title.
What do you think?
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@Ineeddentures (10283)
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6h
It won't let me type a surname of a guy I was at school with
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@Ineeddentures (10283)
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@allknowing
It's got more than 4 letters so it's not really rude
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@allknowing (149457)
• India
6h
@Ineeddentures Looks like you want my permission I still say 'NO' and certain words even myLot does not allow
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@rsa101 (39068)
• Philippines
5h
Having such a surname carries the risk of being teased at some point. But I suppose that's just a name, and as long as you don't live it and do good, there's nothing wrong with having that name attached to you. I remember a cardinal who chose the name Sin because he was of Chinese descent, so he was known as Cardinal Sin. However, he chose to be spiritually strong, even leading the church in faith.
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@allknowing (149457)
• India
5h
It may not be difficult for a Cardinal to carry that load but not when one is a kid Surely he might hav been ragged and I really wonder how he coped with it
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@rsa101 (39068)
• Philippines
5h
@allknowing He carried it lightly that when he got promoted to Cardinal he used it to add to his sermon joking that he is not what we all dread his name indicated to be. Cardina Sin even became an iconic part of our peaceful revolution against a dictator president and was ousted because he sided with the people to voice their protest against the administration. He was one that lead a peaceful non violent revolution many decades ago. His name was never a hindrance to his ultimate goal of being the opposite of what his name meant.
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@FourWalls (76653)
• United States
5h
There was a Slovakian hockey player in the U.S. named Miroslav Šatan (pronounced sha-TAN but spelled like satan) who probably knows a thing or two about a bad surname. 
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@allknowing (149457)
• India
4h
The fact that this Sinner guy reached where he is today, probably took it with a pinch of salt while being ragged Hats off to him and I wonder how Satan coped. .
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@allknowing (149457)
• India
4h
@FourWalls I would say the spelling stands out more than how it is pronounced.specially when the world reads it
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@FourWalls (76653)
• United States
4h
@allknowing — it’s probably a common name in Slovakia and nobody would say anything about it. Or, at the very least, Slovaks know how to pronounce it correctly!!!
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@amitkokiladitya (171949)
• Agra, India
6h
Agree.... must have been a tough time at school for him
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@amitkokiladitya (171949)
• Agra, India
5h
@allknowing I think no one knows the inner struggle a person faces
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