{"id":2600,"date":"2025-12-01T10:39:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=2600"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:39:52","slug":"nicola-pietrangeli-italys-two-time-french-open-winner-dies-aged-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=2600","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Pietrangeli: Italy&#8217;s two-time French Open winner dies aged 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Italian tennis great Nicola Pietrangeli, a two-time French Open champion, has died at the age of 92.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Pietrangeli became the first Italian to win a Grand Slam singles title with his first triumph at Roland Garros in 1959 and retained the trophy a year later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With 48 career titles, Pietrangeli was widely considered the country&#8217;s greatest ever player until the emergence of current world number two and four-time major winner Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Italian tennis is mourning an icon. Nicola Pietrangeli, the only Italian inducted into the World Tennis Hall of Fame, has died,&#8221; the Italian Tennis Federation (FITP) confirmed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In addition to his two French Open successes, Pietrangeli also finished runner-up in Paris in 1961 and 1964.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He played a record 164 matches at the Davis Cup for Italy, winning 120, and led his country to its first title in 1976.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers of the Italian Open, where he was a two-time winner, said: &#8220;It is with deep sadness that we say goodbye to Nicola Pietrangeli, a true legend of Italian tennis&#8230; Ciao, Nicola.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian tennis great Nicola Pietrangeli, a two-time French Open champion, has died at the age of 92. Pietrangeli became the first Italian to win a Grand Slam singles title with his first triumph at Roland Garros in 1959 and retained the trophy a year later. With 48 career titles, Pietrangeli was widely considered the country&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}