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Lorenzo Pierini came to Lakeview as a foreign-exchange student looking for the high school experience in America. After a single standout season on the Spartan boys tennis team, Pierini will now get the chance to have the college experience in America, as well. Pierini committed to play college tennis at Ferris State University, celebrating his dec...

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Matteo Berrettini’s high-powered game has taken him as high as No. 6 in the Pepperstone ATP Rankings as well as to a Wimbledon final, with the Italian’s fearsome serve and forehand two of the most exhilarating shots in the modern game. Yet Berrettini’s on-court intensity contrasts starkly with his demeanour off court, where he is an easy-going, war...

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It is a historic day for Italian tennis. For the first time three Italian players simultaneously enter the Atp Top 20 ranking. In fact, Matteo Berrettini, world No. 14 (+2) and again Italy's No. 1, and Jannik Sinner (No. 16, -2) are joined by Lorenzo Musetti. His United Cup successes earned him 60 points and, more importantly, four positions in the...

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More and more, it is sports that have Italy being talked about around the world as a winning nation. If 2021 was the magic year ever, with Italian athletes winning in every sports competition in which they participated, 2022 closes with just as many successes in dozens of international events. The first victories in chronological order came earlier...

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Nick Bollettieri, the legendary Italian-American tennis coach, passed away after a protracted battle with illness. The 91-year-old was once a champion tennis player’s coach. Nick was the pioneer of the so-called tennis academies. He mentored some of the best players in tennis history, such as Andre Agassi, Jim Courier,  Maria Sharapova, the William...

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Italy has made it to the semi-finals of the Davis Cup by Rakuten, one of the most prestigious male tennis events in the world. The veteran players Fabio Fognini and Simone Bolelli faced Jack Sock and Tommy Paul in an unbelievable 6-4, 6-4 victory in Malaga. “The Italian Job” was largely celebrated by the crowd, who sang songs with Fognini and Bolel...

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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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