US EditionNicola Pietrangeli, Italy's Most Accomplished Tennis Player Before Jannik Sinner, Dies at 92
Pietrangeli won two French Open titles and holds records for 164 Davis Cup matches played, shaping Italian tennis as a cultural and sporting icon, the federation said.
- On Monday, the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation announced that Nicola Pietrangeli, the Italian tennis legend, died at 92 after declining health following a hip fracture in December 2024; he was hospitalized at Gemelli hospital, Rome, and the cause was not immediately known.
- Pietrangeli's career included two French Open singles titles, 48 overall titles, and a record 164 Davis Cup matches with 120 wins, earning his 1986 induction into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
- In a famous episode, Nicola Pietrangeli won the 1960 Roland Garros final on blood-soaked feet against Luis Ayala, earning a modest USD 150 prize while his movie-star looks popularized tennis in Italy.
- Officials announced funeral arrangements, noting a chapel of rest will open on Wednesday, December 3, and the funeral will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Church of Santa Maria della Gran Madre di Dio, with tributes led by Meloni and others.
- Seen as a founding figure, Nicola Pietrangeli was called `the father of our tennis movement` by the Italian Tennis Federation and witnessed Jannik Sinner, with four majors, lead recent Davis Cup titles including last month in Bologna.
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Nicola Pietrangeli, one of the greatest figures in Italian tennis, died in Rome at the age of 92.
He was the first Italian player to win a Grand Slam and the first captain to lead his country to win a Davis Cup
He was the first blue to conquer a Slam at the Roland Garros in 1959. Then in 1976, as a non-player captain, he led the team with Bertolucci and Panatta who gave us Davis. Father was in prison in Tunis, but he had a field: as a child he discovered the game. The legend of white gestures. The patriarch of tennis. The first Italian to win a slam, the Roland Garros of Paris in 1959, bissed the following year. He left with his charisma, his irony and…
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By ANDREW DAMPF ROME (AP) — Nicola Pietrangeli, the Italian tennis champion of the 1950s and 1960s whose records were recently surpassed by Jannik Sinner, but who remains the player with the most Davis Cup wins of all time, has died. He was 92. The Italian Tennis and Padel Federation announced Pietrangeli's death on Monday, without providing a cause. The federation noted that Pietrangeli is the only Italian player to have been inducted into the …
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