“Thank you Rome, it was a very nice trip, it’s over here, I have not yet retired, I will play until the end of the year”he said after his defeat 6-2, 6-3 against the British Jaco Fearnley. “As with everything, there is a start, there is an end”continued the Italian Fabio Fognini, who shares the life of the former player Flavia Pennetta, victorious of the US open in 2015.
“I think you can remember me as a guy who did things with passion, who sometimes, even a lot, deceived but who has always apologized”estimated Fognini, known as much for his genius and blood blows on the courts.
Fognini, now 107th in the world, has won nine titles in his career, including the Masters 1000 in Monte-Carlo in 2019.
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-His best result in Rome is his quarter -final reached in 2018. The previous year, he had beaten the Scottish Andy Murray, then 1 world, on the clay earth, “One of the three strongest moments in my career “He said.
Before the hatching of the Berrettini, Sinner and Musetti, he had given back colors to Italian tennis by becoming in Roland-Garros in 2011 the first Italian to reach a quarter of the final of a Grand Chelem tournament since 1998.
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In 2014, he also led Italy to the semi-final of the Davis Cup, where she had undergone the law of Switzerland of Roger Federer and Stan Wawrinka. However, he did not participate in the victorious campaigns of 2023 and 2024. “The Davis Cup, it represented everything for me, but I will always have this open injury”he regretted.
