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Adriano Panatta
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Adriano Panatta is an Italian tennis player and rally driver born in Rome in 1950. He competes right-handed and represents Italy in sport. His professional career began in 1969 and ended in 1983. During this period, he achieved a singles record of 369–225 and a doubles record of 233–152.
Panatta won the 1976 French Open men's singles title and the 1976 Davis Cup. He is a member of the Democratic Party and speaks Italian. He resides in Treviso and has three children. His sibling is Claudio Panatta.
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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
- Position
- Tennis Player
- Nationality
- Italy
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Adriano
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Rome
- Sibling
- Claudio Panatta
- Occupation
- rally driver
- Political party
- Democratic Party
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Sport
- tennis
- Country for sport
- Italy
- Mass
- 81
- Image
- Panatta 1976 Milano.jpg
- Height
- 183
- Number of children
- 3
- Residence
- Treviso
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1950-07-09
- handedness
- right-handedness
- doubles record
- 233–152
- playing hand
- right-handedness
- singles record
- 369–225
- Commons category
- Adriano Panatta
- competition won
- 1976 Davis Cup
- end of work period
- 1983-00-00
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
- social media followers
- 7220
- name in native language
- Adriano Panatta
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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.