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Adriano Panatta

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Adriano Panatta

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Italian tennis player (born 1950)

Person · Open Library

Born
1950
Works
2

Top works

  • Il tennis l'ha inventato il diavolo
  • Lei non sa chi eravamo noi
  • Più dritti che rovesci

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
IT
Active from
1938-01-06

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Quotes

  • (About Ilie Năstase) He called me Maccarone. He knew I was superstitious. We met in doubles at Roland Garros, me with Bertolucci, him with José-Luis Clerc, the Argentine. I was about to serve, I looked up, and I saw him with a black cat in his arms. Nastase had got himself a black cat and brought it onto the court. At Roland Garros.

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Key facts

Country sports
Italy
Born
( 1950-07-09 ) 9 July 1950 (age 75) , Rome , Italy
Height
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Turned pro
1969 (amateur from 1968)
Plays
Right-handed (one-handed backhand)
Prize money
$776,187
Career record
408–245 (62.5%)
Highest ranking
No. 4 (24 August 1976)
Australian open
1R ( 1969 )
French open
W ( 1976 )
Wimbledon
QF ( 1979 )
Us open
4R ( 1978 )
Tour finals
RR ( 1975 )
Wct finals
QF ( 1977 )
Davis cup
W ( 1976 )

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Tennis
Team
_Retired Tennis
Position
Tennis Player
Nationality
Italy

via TheSportsDB

~5 min read

Encyclopedic overview

Adriano Panatta (born 9 July 1950) is an Italian former professional tennis player. He won the 1976 French Open, becoming the first Italian man in the Open Era to win a major singles title. That year, Panatta also led Italy to the Davis Cup crown, and he reached his career-high ranking of world No. 4 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Panatta was the only player ever to defeat Björn Borg at the French Open, doing so twice.

From 2018 to 2021, he was a regular guest of the RAI sport broadcast Quelli che... il Calcio.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adriano Panatta” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.