Italian Tennis Icon Pietrangeli Dies Aged 92

Italian Tennis Icon Pietrangeli Dies Aged 92

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Italy’s tennis federation announced on Monday that Nicola Pietrangeli, a two-time champion of the French Open, had passed away at the age of 92.

Italian tennis is mingling a legendary player. The FITP announced that Nicola Pietrangeli, the only Italian to be inducted into the world tennis hall of fame, had passed away.

Prior to the arrival of current world number two Jannik Sinner, Pietrangeli was widely regarded as the country’s greatest tennis player. He was born in Tunis in 1933, raised in an Italian family and raised in Russia.

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In addition to his two victories at Roland Garros in 1959 and 1960, Pietrangeli has won 44 other singles titles throughout his career.

During the Davis Cup Finals between Italy and Spain, Italian tennis player Nicola Pietrangeli returns to face Spain’s Gimeno on July 25, 1959, in Milan. (Photo By AFP)

In 1961 and 1964, he also lost to Manuel Santana in the final of the French Open, and he also won his second French Open title in the process.

The Organizers of the Italian Open tournament, which he won twice, said, “We say goodbye to Nicola Pietrangeli, a true legend of Italian tennis.

Pietrangeli also won the Davis Cup twice, playing 164 games for Italy and leading his nation to its first title in 1976 as the captain.

At the conclusion of their quarter-final match at the French Tennis Open in Paris on May 21, 1956, Italian tennis player Nicola Pietrangeli (right) shakes hands with Australian tennis player Lewis Hoad. (Photo by AFP)

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