Corrado Borroni

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Corrado Borroni
Full nameCorrado Borroni
Country (sports)Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Born (1973-05-06) 6 May 1973 (age 45)
Bollate, Italy
Height6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$53,599
Singles
Career record2–3
Highest rankingNo. 196 (29 January 1996)
Doubles
Highest rankingNo. 460 (5 October 1992)

Corrado Borroni (born 6 May 1973) is a former professional tennis player from Italy.

Tennis ball sport with racket and net

Tennis is a racket sport that can be played individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game is to maneuver the ball in such a way that the opponent is not able to play a valid return. The player who is unable to return the ball will not gain a point, while the opposite player will.

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Biography

Borroni, who comes from Milan, began playing tennis at the age of five and turned professional in 1991.

Milan Italian city

Milan is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,372,810 while its metropolitan area has a population of 3,244,365. Its continuously built-up urban area has a population estimated to be about 5,270,000 over 1,891 square kilometres. The wider Milan metropolitan area, known as Greater Milan, is a polycentric metropolitan region that extends over central Lombardy and eastern Piedmont and which counts an estimated total population of 7.5 million, making it by far the largest metropolitan area in Italy and the 54th largest in the world. Milan served as capital of the Western Roman Empire from 286 to 402 and the Duchy of Milan during the medieval period and early modern age.

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References

  1. ↑ Roberts, John (18 May 1995). "Ivanisevic turns the tables on Medvedev". The Independent . Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  2. ↑ "ITF Tennis - Pro Circuit - Rome - 13 May - 19 May 1996". International Tennis Federation . Retrieved 6 April 2018.
Association of Tennis Professionals organization of professional male tennis players

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