The Davis Cup of tennis and the Turin Film Festival are taking place in Turin where a special of A team (aired from May on Sky), a docu-series by Domenico Procacci (founder of Fandango) that takes us between 1976 and 1980 together with four players who have made tennis history: Adriano Panatta, Corrado Barazzutti, Paolo Bertolucci e Tonino Zugarelli.
In five years they reach the final of four times Davis Cup, winning in 1976 against the dictator’s Chile Pinochet. Around that triumph a real political case was created, followed by the finals in 1977 against Australia, in 1979 against the USA and in 1980 against Czechoslovakia. In short, Italy was the team to beat. 45 years have passed and no one has managed to match the feat of the magnificent four.
Tonino Zugarelli, Corrado Barazzutti, Paolo Bertolucci, Adriano Panatta.
Now Jannik Sinner, Lorenzo Sleepy and Fabio Fognini «They could succeed in the enterprise», words of Adriano Panatta, «we are among the top four teams in the world». Even if the Davis Cup at that time it was very different (the rules changed in 2019) from today’s tournament: “I would remove Davis’s name”, says Panatta, it looks more like a Facchinetti cup “.
Beyond the technicalities there is an Italian team at the highest levels. And the results can be seen: Sinner and Matteo Berrettini close the year in the world top ten. It had never happened before. «We have four, five very strong players», Panatta tells us on the phone, «the conditions are good to do well, you have to wait a little time to win what we have won. They can do it and they also have a chance to outdo us».
Jannik Sinner «Has great chances. I said that he was among the top 10 players in the world a year and a half ago “, underlines the former champion,”for me it can easily place in the top five, must improve the service. Berrettini, if he is physically well, has shown what he is capable of doing, Sonego is a solid player and hard to beat, Lorenzo Musetti is an up and coming young man with a varied game that bodes well, while Fognini he is a super-player who is winning less at the moment ».
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The men’s team «has yet to reach the levels of the women’s team they won with Sara Errani, Flavia Pennetta, Roberta Vinci e Francesca Schiavone due slam e diverse Fed Cup», Panatta.
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