{"id":318207,"date":"2025-12-01T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/318207\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T10:26:09","slug":"nicola-pietrangeli-italys-two-time-french-open-winner-dies-aged-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/318207\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Pietrangeli: Italy&#8217;s two-time French Open winner dies aged 92"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Italian tennis great Nicola Pietrangeli, a two-time French Open champion, has died at the age of 92.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Italian tennis great Nicola Pietrangeli, a two-time French Open champion, has died at the age of 92. Pietrangeli&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-318207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}