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For the sixth time in history two Italians together reach the quarterfinals of a Grand Slam tournament, but this is the first time it has happened in the US Open. After Matteo Berrettini, who yesterday overcame Spaniard Alejandro Davidovich Fokina 6-2 in the fifth set, tonight it was the turn of Jannik Sinner who eliminated Belarusian Ilya Ivashka...

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To read the top three names in the Race to Next Gen Finals in Milan, Italy, the under-21 world tennis championship, one is speechless: the first is Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz, the second is Jannik Sinner, and the third is Lorenzo Musetti. To put it in numbers: number 4, number 10, and number 30 in the Atp Ranking. It is clear that the three absolute t...

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A dream Sunday for Italian sports: first Sofia Raffaeli, then Matteo Berrettini, then Nicolò Martinenghi and Rossella Gregorio. From gymnastics to tennis, swimming to fencing, it's great Italy. Sofia Raffaeli never ceases to amaze and is an absolute star in Israel. The Italian begins by winning the gold medal in hoop with 36 net points at the Europ...

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For over fifteen years, Italian tennis has returned to shine as it did in the days of the "immortals" Lea Pericoli, Nicola Pietrangeli, Adriano Panatta and Corrado Barazzutti. First, the Italian tennis players called up to the national team exploded, winning 4 editions of the Fed Cup from 2006 to 2013 (today the trophy is called the Billie Jean Kin...

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Team Italy failed to reach the semi-finals at the ATP Cup to start 2022, but it was only a matter of time before Italians made their mark on the new season. Matteo Berrettini and Jannik Sinner have not taken long to do just that. Both Berrettini and Sinner are into the Australian Open quarter-finals, where they have a chance to make more history fo...

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Italians Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Sonego played off their home crowd in Turin to lift the host nation to a 2-1 victory over the United States in the opening Group E tie in the Davis Cup by Rakuten Finals on Friday, though Jack Sock and Rajeev Ram gave the US-Americans a fighting chance to still advance to the quarterfinals. Italy swept the day’s s...

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Not long ago, at Wimbledon, Matteo Berrettini became the first Italian male tennis player to reach a Grand Slam final in 45 years. This performance came after a splendid run to the title at the Queen’s club championships. Lorenzo Musetti managed to take two sets off Novak Djokovic at the Roland Garros. Italy currently has ten men inside the top 100...

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Italy's Jannik Sinner, the ATP's top-ranked teen, captured his third career title on Sunday, outlasting American Mackenzie McDonald 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 in the Citi Open final. World number 24 Sinner, a 19-year-old who won at Sofia last year and Melbourne in January, took the top prize of $350,755 on the Washington hardcourts. "I'm very happy about this t...

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Matteo Berrettini likes to tell a story about how, as a youngster, he was not considered to be a great athlete, finding himself bottom of the stats when it came to athletic prowess among his fellow top junior players. On Friday, the 25-year-old from Rome became the first Italian – man or woman – to reach the Wimbledon final, beating Hubert Hurkacz...

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Sometimes a friend is the toughest foe, but Matteo Berrettini did not mind on Wednesday. The Italian star beat close mate Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 to reach his first Wimbledon semi-final. The seventh seed is the first man from his country in the Open Era to make the last four at The Championships. The only other Italian man in histo...

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