Tennis in Italy is governed by the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation and is the 6th sport, with 1,298,000 people, by number of practitioners.^[1]

History

Five Italian players have won Grand Slam tournaments: Nicola Pietrangeli (1959 and 1960 French Championships), Adriano Panatta (1976 French Open), Francesca Schiavone (2010 French Open), Flavia Pennetta (2015 US Open) and Jannik Sinner (2024 Australian Open).

The men's national team won the Davis Cup two times (1976 and 2023) and the women's national team won the Fed Cup four times (2006, 2009, 2010, and 2013).

Women's tennis in particular has seen tremendous successes in the 21st century, with the advent of Francesca Schiavone, Sara Errani, Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci. All four of these women reached the top 10 of the WTA rankings in both singles and doubles (with Schiavone and Errani reaching the top 5 in singles and Pennetta, Errani and Vinci reaching No 1 in doubles), and reached Grand Slam finals in both disciplines. Schiavone and Pennetta won singles Grand Slam titles, while Pennetta, Errani and Vinci won doubles Grand Slam titles, with Errani and Vinci achieving the Career Grand Slam in doubles as a pair. They were also responsible for Italy's 4 Fed Cup victories as members of the national Fed Cup team.

Players best singles ranking

In this table only those who have reached the top 20 in the world singles ranking.

Updated on 6 June 2024. Data refer to the Open Era (from 1968).^[2]

Men

Women

Grand slam best singles results

Men

Ten Italian tennis players played at least the semi-final in a Grand Slam tournament.^[3]

Women

Nine Italian female tennis players have reached at least the semifinals of a Grand Slam singles tournament.^[4][5]

All tournament winners in Open Era

Male

As of 23 June 2024, 91 tournaments have been won by 28 Italian tennis players in the major circuit.

Female

As of 30 July 2023, 78 tournaments have been won by 21 Italian tennis players in the major circuit.