Flavia Pennetta (Italian pronunciation:[ˈflaːvjapenˈnetta]; born 25 February 1982) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She became Italy's first top-ten female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked world No. 1 in doubles, on 28 February 2011. She is a major champion, having won the 2011 Australian Open women's doubles title with Gisela Dulko, and the 2015 US Open singles title over childhood friend Roberta Vinci in the first all-Italian major final.[1]
Pennetta won ten other WTA singles titles, including the 2014 Indian Wells Open, where she defeated the top two seeds. She also was a mainstay in the Fed Cup team competition, helping Italy win four titles in 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2013. Her other highlights in doubles include winning the 2010 WTA Finals and finishing runner-up at the 2005 and 2014 US Open tournaments, partnering respectively with Elena Dementieva and Martina Hingis.
After winning the 2015 US Open, Pennetta announced she would retire at the end of the season, playing her last tournament at her WTA Finals singles debut. There, she defeated eventual champion Agnieszka Radwańska in the round-robin stage and retired with a top-ten singles ranking.
Pennetta was pronounced a Knight of Order of Merit of the Republic on 24 January 2007 by Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, then President of Italy.[2]
^MonrifNet. "Vinci-Pennetta da semifinale, la sfida delle ex bambine (Martucci). Pennetta-Vinci, due amiche da vent'anni e la partita della vita (Azzolini). Federer, un triste finale: la caduta libera di un genio (Semeraro). Ora fermati, Roger mio (Clerici) – Ubitennis". ubitennis.com.
^"Cavaliere Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana Sig.ra Flavia Pennetta".
FlaviaPennetta (Italian pronunciation: [ˈflaːvja penˈnetta]; born 25 February 1982) is an Italian former professional tennis player. She became Italy's...
of the main career statistics of professional Italian tennis player FlaviaPennetta (W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist;...
reached the quarterfinals at Hobart as the No. 6 seed and lost to FlaviaPennetta in three sets. She reached the third round at the Australian Open as...
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in the women's doubles event, but the pair lost to Gisela Dulko and FlaviaPennetta in the final. Azarenka then travelled to Israel to compete in Fed Cup...
teammate Alison Riske lost the decisive doubles match to Errani and FlaviaPennetta, which meant the United States was relegated to World Group II. It...
is the fourth Italian woman to reach the top 10 in singles, after FlaviaPennetta, Francesca Schiavone and Sara Errani. At 33 years and 4 days old, she...
achieved the world No. 1 ranking and won 17 WTA titles. Partnering with FlaviaPennetta, Dulko won the 2010 WTA Tour Championships and the 2011 Australian...
career singles match victory in the quarterfinals, beating world No. 18 FlaviaPennetta, and subsequently won the tournament with wins over Venus Williams...
Radwańska, and FlaviaPennetta. She then won all three of her round-robin matches and achieved 1st position in her group. Her win over Pennetta also marked...
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second round of the main draw, where she retired in her match against FlaviaPennetta due to an ankle injury. She received a qualifying wildcard into the...
sets. However, she lost to FlaviaPennetta in the third round. This was Stosur's fifth WTA Tour singles loss to Pennetta in her career. She dropped to...
straight sets. She also won the doubles title there, partnering with FlaviaPennetta. Kirilenko also won in Barcelona, defeating Martinez-Sanchez for her...
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advancing to the fourth round without dropping a set. After defeating FlaviaPennetta in the round of 16 in three sets, she lost to eventual champion Francesca...
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