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Tennis, Bologna will host the Davis Cup Finals group for the next five years

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Tennis, Bologna will host the Davis Cup Finals group for the next five years

BOLOGNA. The Unipol Arena in Bologna will host, from 16 to 18 September, one of the four groups of the Davis Cup Finals 2022, from which two of the eight participants in the Final 8 of the event will come out, scheduled instead with the classic draw formula with quarter-finals, semifinals. and final in one place (we are talking about a Gulf country, Abu Dhabi or Dubai). The news had been anticipated by The print. Bologna will host Davis’ “Italian” group for the next five years, provided of course that Italy qualifies.

The other three venues chosen by the International Federation and Kosmos Tennis – the investment group headed by Gerard Pique who pushed for the reform of the Cup – are Hamburg (Germany), Glasgow (Great Britain) and Malaga (Spain). Davis therefore returns to Bologna 46 years after the historic match with Yugoslavia which in 1976 opened the doors to the march of Panatta, Bertolucci, Barazzutti and Zugarelli towards the conquest of the first and for now only Italian salad bowl (out of seven played finals).

In that edition, on the fields of the Bologna coach the Azzurri, promoted to the main draw of the European zone by the victory over Poland in the preliminary round in Florence, left no chance for Franulovic and Pilic, winning all the 5 matches foreseen at the time by the format. There were two successes by Corrado Barazzutti and three by Adriano Panatta, who played the two singles and the double alongside Paolo Bertolucci just a week before triumphing at the Foro Italico in the Internazionali d’Italia.

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Panatta & Co, led by Nicola Pietrangeli and Mario Belardinelli, later overtook even Sweden and Great Britain, reaching the inter-zone finals in which they first defeated Australia in Rome and then, in the final proper, Chile in the historic and highly contested trip to Santiago. In total, Italy played five Davis Cup matches in Bologna, winning them all.

“This assignment confirms us as a leader in the world of tennis as organizers of major events,” said Fit president Angelo Binaghi at the presentation press conference. «We have to thank the Undersecretary with responsibility for sport, Valentina Vezzali, and the territory in the person of the president of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Bonaccini, for supporting and helping us. This event represents a great opportunity for our country not only in terms of induced activities for what it will bring to the territory but also in sporting terms for our team. In fact, it comes at an extraordinary moment for Italian tennis, in particular for men, perhaps the best ever in our history. We have two players in the top 10, and we had 9 in the top 100 at some point last season. I think it is the happiest choice we could have made because Bologna with its centrality in the transport network of our country can allow all fans from all Italian regions to access this event in the easiest way possible. An event that, we must tell ourselves, we want to win in the next five years. I believe that all the conditions are in place to be able to reach this prestigious goal ». Italy qualified for the group of the 2022 Finals by beating Slovakia in Bratislava 3-2 in the qualifiers, in the absence of the blue number 1 Matteo Berrettini, who had already had to give up the group and the round of 16 played last November in Turin. Bologna could be an opportunity to see the blue “squadron” together for the first time aiming at winning the Cup.

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THE DAVIS CUP IN BOLOGNA: ALL THE BACKGROUND

May 8-10, 1937, Central Coastal Field, land
Italy b. Monaco 5-0, 2nd round in the European zone

Vanni Canepele b. Gaston Medecin 60 61 60, Giorgio De Stefani b. Vladimir Landau 62 60 63, Ferruccio Quintavalle-Valentino Taroni b. Vladimir Landau-Gaston Doctor 61 63 63, Vanni Canepele b. Vladimir Landau 60 64 61, Giorgio De Stefani b. Gaston Medecin 61 75 75

13-15 June 1952, Virtus Tennis, clay
Italy b. Great Britain 4-1, European zone quarterfinals

Rolando Del Bello (Ita) b. Tony Mottram 86 62 62, Fausto Gardini (Ita) b. Geoffrey Paish 62 63 63, Tony Mottram-Geoffrey Paish (Gbr) b. Gianni Cucelli-Marcello Del Bello 63 61 68 62, Fausto Gardini (Ita) b. Tony Mottram 46 46 63 61 60, Rolando Del Bello (Ita) b. Goeffrey Paish 63 64 62

June 2-4, 1956, Tennis Club, clay
Italy b. Denmark 4-1, European zone quarterfinals

Kurt Nielsen (Den) b. Giuseppe Merlo 97 16 63 64, Nicola Pietrangeli (Ita) b. Torben Ulrich 46 62 61 60, Nicola Pietrangeli-Orlando Sirola (Ita) b. Kurt Nielsen-Torben Ulrich 64 62 36 63, Giuseppe Merlo (Ita) b Torben Ulrich 60 64 62, Nicola Pietrangeli (Ita) b Kurt Nielsen 86 64 46 26 64

April 28-30, 1966, Tennis Club, clay
Italy b. Soviet Union 4-1, 1st round European zone B.

Nicola Pietrangeli (Ita) b. Tomas Lejus 61 63 61, Sergio Tacchini (Ita) b. Aleksandr Ivanov 57 64 64 62, Tomas Lejus-Sergei Likhachev (USSR) b. Gaetano Di Maso-Giordano Majoli 75 60 63, Sergio Tacchini (Ita) b. Tomas Lejus 61 63 62, Nicola Pietrangeli (Ita) b. Aleksamdr Ivanov 63 61 64

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May 21-23, 1976, Tennis Club, clay
Italy b. Yugoslavia 5-0, European zone quarter B

Corrado Barazzutti b. Zeljko Franulovic 61 75 64, Adriano Panatta b. Nikki Pilic 63 64 63, Paolo Bertolucci-Adriano Panatta b. Zeljko Franulovic-Nikki Pilic 62 97 75, Adriano Panatta b. Zeljko Franulovic 61 61 63, Corrado Barazzutti b. Nikki Pilic 60 64 64

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