Italy, the world powerhouse of tennis

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Italy, today, reigns in the world of tennis. When Jannik Sinner announced he would not play in the Davis Cup finals and Lorenzo Musetti withdrew at the last minute, many Italians believed that the dream of retaining the title was fading. However, the team ended up showing that they could be equally strong, even without their main figures.

Because if the best weapon Spain showed in this Davis Cup was the unity of the group, Italy's is equally or even more potent because those connections and links are much more established. They managed to make a player who was having a forgettable year due to injuries like Matteo Berrettini win all three of his matches in these finals without dropping a set, adding up to eleven consecutive victories in this competition.

Italy dominates the Davis Cup, the Billie Jean King Cup, and has a compatriot in the most important office of the ATP

Or Flavio Cobolli, who had never been called up to the 'azzurra' team before, and although he performs well on grass, reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals, and on clay, where he won the ATP titles in Bucharest and Hamburg, his familiarity with indoor hard courts had been, until now, unsatisfactory. Until he arrived in Bologna, where he leaves with a masterclass on how to manage key moments, saving seven match points in the semifinals against Zizou Bergs, and coming back from a 1-6 deficit against Jaume Munar to seal the deal for Italy.

And if either of these two faltered, Filippo Volandri had the wildcard of the always challenging Lorenzo Sonego. While if everything had to be decided in the doubles, there was confidence in having two experts like Andrea Vavassori and Simone Bolelli. This is the full repertoire that Italy has when it cannot rely on Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Musetti.

In addition to the aforementioned players, Italy boasts three more players in the top 100, Luciano Darderi (26th), Matteo Arnaldi (62nd), Mattia Bellucci (74th), and this year witnessed the retirement of one of the most virtuous players of recent times: Fabio Fognini. This is the result of doing things right within the Italian federation and their commitment to the development of their players from the start.

The Italian Federation holds one of the most prestigious Masters 1000, like the one in Rome, and will again host its sixth edition of the ATP Finals in Turin in 2026, while in the ATP offices, the president is also of Italian nationality like Andrea Gaudenzi.

If Italian tennis did not have enough showcase, last September the Italian team secured their second consecutive Billie Jean King Cup with Jasmine Paolini as the main star, currently ranking number eight in the WTA, Sara Errani as the most reliable veteran in doubles, and Tyra Grant emerging as the great talent still to be fully polished.

The reality is what it is, while women's tennis has seen more consistent presence with players like Roberta Vinci, Flavia Penetta, or Francesca Schiavone, men's tennis was lacking role models.

First there was Fognini, followed by Berrettini, and now Sinner has uncorked the potential of a generation of Italians who promise to make headlines for many years. If all of them have very promising individual careers, their unity as a team in the Davis Cup makes them a potential candidate to win future editions. They show that even without their top two players, they can still be strong contenders.

The evidence of Italy's dominance is more than apparent; now it remains to be seen how long this tennis empire will last and if it will ever risk collapsing like a house of cards. But, as of today, the reality reveals an irrefutable fact: tennis 'speaks' Italian.
 

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