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Italian Open Internazionali d'Italia | |||||||||
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Tournament information | |||||||||
Event name | Italian Open | ||||||||
Founded | 1930 | ||||||||
Location | Rome Italy | ||||||||
Venue | Foro Italico | ||||||||
Surface | Clay (outdoors) | ||||||||
Website | internazionalibnlditalia.com | ||||||||
Current champions (2023) | |||||||||
Men's singles | Daniil Medvedev | ||||||||
Women's singles | Elena Rybakina | ||||||||
Men's doubles | Hugo Nys Jan Zieliński | ||||||||
Women's doubles | Storm Hunter Elise Mertens | ||||||||
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The Italian Open (Italian : Internazionali d'Italia) is an annual professional tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. It is played on clay courts at the Foro Italico, and is held during the second week of May. The tournament is part of the ATP Masters 1000 events on the ATP Tour and part of the WTA 1000 events on the WTA Tour. The two events were combined in 2011. Rafael Nadal has won the men's singles title a record ten times.
The Italian tennis championship was first held in 1930 in Milan at the Tennis Club and was initiated by Count Alberto Bonacossa. [1] The singles events at the tournament were won by Bill Tilden and Lilí Álvarez. The championships were held in Milan until 1934. The next year, 1935, the event moved to the Foro Italico in Rome. No edition was held between 1936 and 1949. The competition resumed in 1950. In 1961 the tournament was held in Turin at the Sporting Club. It has had various naming incarnations through the years including: the Italian International Championships, [2] the Rome Masters, and the BNL d'Italia for sponsorship reasons.
The Italian Open became "open" to professional players in 1969. Between 1972 and 1989 it was a premier tournament of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour and was part of the Grand Prix Super Series top tier events. In 1990 it became an ATP Championship Series Single Week tournament, which included the nine most prestigious tournaments of the preceding Grand Prix tennis circuit. It has remained part of this category of events until today, that has changed names several times since, to be now known as the ATP Tour Masters 1000 events.
In June 2022 ATP announced some changes to the ATP calendar for the coming year. The ATP Masters 1000 event in Rome along with those in Shanghai and in Madrid would now be held over two weeks starting in 2023, thus becoming 12 day events just like the Masters 1000 events in Indian Wells and Miami. [3]
In 1979 the women's event was held two weeks before the men's event. The women's event was played in Perugia from 1980 though 1984 and in Taranto in 1985. No women's event was held in 1986 [lower-alpha 1] and it moved back to Rome again in 1987 where it has remained. [4]
The tournament is held at the Foro Italico tennis center, which is an extensive area with a total of 14 clay surface tennis courts, nine of which are used for the Italian Open tournament and the rest for training purposes. There are currently three stadium courts: the main one, Stadio Centrale, was rebuilt for the 2010 tournament and has a capacity of 10,400 spectators. [5] The other grounds are the Stadio Pietrangeli (formerly Pallacorda, 3,500 seats [6] ) and the Grand Stand Arena.
Source: The Tennis Base [7]
Most titles | Rafael Nadal | 10 |
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Most finals | Rafael Nadal | 12 |
Novak Djokovic | ||
Most runner-ups | Novak Djokovic | 6 |
Most consecutive titles | Rafael Nadal (2005–2007) | 3 |
Most consecutive finals | Rafael Nadal (2009–2014) | 6 |
Most matches played | Novak Djokovic | 78 |
Most matches won | Rafael Nadal | 69 |
Most consecutive matches won | Rafael Nadal | 17 |
Most editions played | Nicola Pietrangeli | 22 |
Best winning % | Rod Laver | 93.75% |
Björn Borg | ||
Youngest champion | Björn Borg | 17y, 11m, 2d (1974) |
Oldest champion | Bill Tilden | 38y, 2m, 18d (1930) |
Longest final | |||||
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2006 (57 games) | |||||
Rafael Nadal | 60 | 77 | 6 | 2 | 77 |
Roger Federer | 77 | 65 | 4 | 6 | 65 |
Shortest final | |||||
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2013 (16 games) | |||||
Rafael Nadal | 6 | 6 | |||
Roger Federer | 1 | 3 |
Most titles | Chris Evert | 5 |
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Most finals | Chris Evert | 7 |
Most runner-ups | Lucia Valerio | 4 |
/ Martina Navratilova | ||
Most consecutive titles | Conchita Martínez (1993–1996) | 4 |
Most consecutive finals | Conchita Martínez (1993–1997) | 5 |
Most consecutive runner-ups | Lucia Valerio (1934, 1935) | 2 |
Lesley Turner (1963, 1964) | ||
Martina Navratilova (1974, 1975) | ||
Virginia Ruzici (1980, 1981) | ||
Monica Seles (1991, 1992) | ||
Amélie Mauresmo (2000, 2001) | ||
Simona Halep (2017, 2018) | ||
Karolína Plíšková (2020, 2021) | ||
Most matches played | Conchita Martínez | 53 |
Serena Williams | ||
Most matches won | Conchita Martínez | 44 |
Serena Williams | ||
Most consecutive matches won (not skipped events) | Conchita Martínez | 24 |
Most editions played | Lea Pericoli | 20 |
Best winning % (minimum of 20 matches played) | Chris Evert (36-3) | 92.31% |
Margaret Court (24-2) | ||
Undefeated at this tournament (minimum of 1 title) | Doris Hart | (7–0) (1951, 1953) |
Althea Gibson | (5–0) (1956) | |
Tracy Austin | (5–0) (1979) | |
Lilí Álvarez | (4–0) (1930) | |
Helen Jacobs | (4–0) (1934) | |
Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling | (4–0) (1935) |
1962 (36 games) | |||||
Margaret Court | 8 | 5 | 6 | ||
Maria Bueno | 6 | 7 | 4 |
2021 (12 games) | |||||
Iga Świątek | 6 | 6 | |||
Karolína Plíšková | 0 | 0 |
Individual | Team | |||
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Most titles | Virginia Wade | 4 | Thelma Coyne Long Mary Hawton | 2 |
Paola Suárez Virginia Ruano Pascual | ||||
Hsieh Su-wei Peng Shuai | ||||
Most finals | Thelma Coyne Long | 5 | Silvana Lazzarino Lea Pericoli | 5 |
Silvana Lazzarino | ||||
Lea Pericoli | ||||
Virginia Wade | ||||
Virginia Ruzici | ||||
Martina Hingis | ||||
Most runner-ups | Silvana Lazzarino | 5 | Silvana Lazzarino Lea Pericoli | 5 |
Lea Pericoli | ||||
Most consecutive titles | Olga Morozova (1972, 1973, 1974) | 3 | Thelma Coyne Long Mary Hawton (1956, 1957) | 2 |
/ Monica Seles (1990, 1991, 1992) | Gigi Fernández Natasha Zvereva (1994, 1995) | |||
Most consecutive finals | Silvana Lazzarino (1962–1965) | 4 | Silvana Lazzarino Lea Pericoli (1962–1965) | 4 |
Lea Pericoli (1962–1965) | ||||
Most consecutive runner-ups | Silvana Lazzarino (1962–1965) | 4 | Silvana Lazzarino Lea Pericoli (1962–1965) | 4 |
Lea Pericoli (1962–1965) |
1956 (40 games) | |||||
Thelma Coyne Long Mary Hawton | 6 | 6 | 9 | ||
Darlene Hard Angela Buxton | 4 | 8 | 7 |
1957 (14 games) | |||||
Thelma Coyne Long Mary Bevis Hawton | 6 | 6 | |||
Rosa Reyes Yola Ramírez | 1 | 1 |
2001 (14 games) | |||||
Cara Black Elena Likhovtseva | 6 | 6 | |||
Paola Suárez Patricia Tarabini | 1 | 1 |
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