WTI Magazine #38    2014 July, 9
Author : Simone Callisto Manca      Translation by:

Despite the recent efforts of our soccer system to prove the contrary, Italy is still a sports power. Every week, somewhere in the world, there is always an Italian who does more than good, and often wins. On July 5 it was the turn of Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci, the first Italians in history to win Wimbledon, the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world.

The "Cichis" as they are dearly nicknamed, won the women's doubles final match 6-1, 6-3, in just 56 minutes, versus the Franco-Hungarian team made by Timea Babos and Kristina Mladenovic. With this big win, the two Italian female tennis players have risen to No. 1 in the world ranking of WTA women's doubles.

Errani-Vinci is the fourth pair of the Open Era, as to say since the current distribution between Grand Slam and Masters tournaments has been introduced, to close an entire Slam (even if not in the same year): they won Roland Garros and the U.S. Open in 2012, the Australian Open both in 2013 and in 2014, and now Wimbledon.

The Italians, seeded number two, entered the board game in the quarterfinals: in the two rounds before the triumph the couple have indeed defeated the Australian double Casey-Dellacqua in straight two sets and subsequently the Czech-Chinese double Zheng-Hlavackova.

Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci have been at the top of their sport for some years now, and are excellent representatives of the Italian school of women's tennis, which includes among other Francesca Schiavone (winner in singles at Roland Garros in 2010) and Flavia Pennetta, and that brought four Federation Cup (the Davis female) in 2006, 2009, 2010 and 2013.

Sara Errani (Bologna, 1987), has been a professional tennis player since 2002. During her career she won 7 tournaments in singles and 23 in doubles. With the national team has won three Federation Cup in 2009, 2010 and 2013. Roberta Vinci (Taranto, 1983) turned professional in 1999. She has won 9 tournaments in singles and 23 in doubles. Compared to Errani, she won one Federation Cup more, in 2006.
The season of Sara and Roberta's not done, on the contrary: in just over a month they will compete in the most anticipated tournament for our readers, the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadows.

Sara and Roberta have all the papers in order to repeat the success of two years ago and, thus, to consolidate the world number one ranking just conquered.
Come on girls!