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# 68 • SEPTEMBER 21 , 2015
wonderful sporting day experienced by
our country last September 12 when Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci played
againts each other in the final of the US
Open 2015. Pennetta won 7-6 / 6-2 but
the result was, after all, not that important: it was a day of celebration for Italian
sport - and not only, not blurred even by
the controversy over the rightful presence of the premier Renzi in the stands.
An outstanding and perhaps almost unique final, since both tennis players were
not among the main favorites for the title: at the beginning of the tournament
their odds for the final win were listed by
bookmakers between 200 and 300 to 1.
Despite this, with the typical perseverance and constancy of the Italians who find
themselves with their backs to the wall,
like two small ants Flavia and Roberta
have overturned the initial prediction
and came to a result that up to three weeks would be frankly unexpected.
For Flavia Pennetta this was the first
Grand Slam win in her career, but not the
first tournament: the player from Brindisi, currently in the top ten WTA, has won
4 times (2006, 2009, 2010, 2013) the Fed
Cup, the top competition in women's
tennis for national teams. A very mediatic character, Flavia, who has been several times at the center of the stage for
her love life: the unfortunate history with
Carlos Moya, from whom she was seduced and abandoned, and now the story
with her colleague and compatriot Fabio
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