How Italy is Quietly Producing the Best Tennis Players in the World...

[@stefanodisperati4561]

As Italian, I like to think that also having a TV Channel (Super Tennis) totally free and totally dedicated to tennis has made tennis much more popular over the last two decades among the youngsters in Italy. Italy is the only Country on Earth which has a TV Channel like this and that, around 20 years ago, has launched this project of making the Tennis Tournaments available to everybody for free: nobody talks about this unique situation but, to me, it has been a very important factor which has propelled the growth of the Italian Tennis. The influence of this kind of free media deserves to be studied more.

[@federicocapriotti2180]

E poi c'hanno tolto tutte le partite perchè devono privatizzare tutto fra poco pure l'ossigeno

[@trevisrobotie924]

Ao, stasera alle 18 e 45 c'è Sinner/ Alcaraz

[@edoardonuvolone9392]

da una parte sicuramente aiuta, soprattutto negli ultimi due anni visto che c'erano gli us open in diretta, però c'è da dire che tendenzialmente chi guarda supertennis è proprio un appassionato perché al massimo si trovano dei 250

[@stefanodisperati4561]

@@edoardonuvolone9392 Nell’ultimo anno sì; ma, a partire dal 2006/07 fino a pochissimo tempo fa, Super Tennis aveva l’esclusiva anche per tutti i 500. Spesso, ad esempio, Barcellona ha visto protagonista uno come Nadal; A Basilea Federer vinceva quasi sempre, giocando finali di altissimo livello, ad esempio contro Nole, Rafa, Del Potro: insomma partite degne di una finale Slam. Senza contare che durante tutti l’anno trasmettevano le finali Slam più belle della Storia del Tennis.

[@domenicocatalfamo6503]

​@@edoardonuvolone9392 a partire da questo gennaio sì. Però negli anni scorsi si vedevano Coppa Davis, 250, 500 e il miglior incontro della giornata in differita dei 1000

[@manuel7102]

As an italian, I'm particularly proud of recent results we achieved in tennis because it really is one of the few cases where we came to excellence thanks to a structured program and across the board investments rather than relying on a few passionate and talented but unsopported people

[@joshuaduarte4505]

Italian rugby union for example

[@Ithilion]

*Unbearable

[@matteocornaggia561]

Voi siete matti

[@walter_the_danger]

one of the few cases?...do you even know what you're talking about?

[@sleepyjoe8256]

@@walter_the_dangerI don’t even think hes Italian bahahahahhahaa

[@sebastianocassarino8410]

I’m 25 years old guy born and raised in Italy (Sicily) and I remember vividly when a tennis training court with three complete and functional pitches opened right outside my small village. I was 7 or 8 at that time and we suddenly had the opportunity to train, paying very reasonable money, with professional FITP trainers and compete in national level tournaments, all of this in a remote and small town (not even 2.000 people) of one of the poorest regions of Italy. We’ve been working on tennis development since the beginning of the century and I’m glad things finally started to work out fine for our movement!🎉

[@DeanGwin]

that's awesome to hear man! Thank you for sharing

[@babagigio-tr6vu]

I'm Italian and this is one of the best tennis videos on KZbin I've ever seen. The quality of research you did is astonishing, you spoke about many things I didn't know either. And as I said, I'm Italian. Big congrats for your amazing job

[@francesco153]

Italy's dominating everywhere - atp finals in both men's singles with sinner and doubles with bolelli vavassori - wta finals in both women's singles with paolini and doubles with errani/paolini

[@anseinueseima408]

Paolini dominates? What a joke

[@francescojsb]

@@anseinueseima408 "dominating everywhere" is actually excessive, only in the ATP singles Italy has the number 1, however it has happened very few times in the history of tennis that in all 4 Finals (ATP and WTA singles and doubles) there were exponents of the same nation (and with all 4 members of the doubles from the same nation)

[@francesco153]

@@anseinueseima408 She is not dominating but this season has won 1 masters 1000 in singles, won 1 masters 1000 in doubles, made 2 grand slam finals in singles, won gold in women's double at the olympics.

[@anseinueseima408]

@@francesco153 Yes. Dominate can only be used to describe someone who's winning left and right, defeating everyone in his/her way. Paolini is not one of them.

[@TrichecoDeiTrichechi]

@@anseinueseima408 ntucul

[@pierdomenicosommati443]

As an Italian who has watched and played tennis from almost 35 years, watching at Italian male players struggling to hit the top 20 ranking for such a huge amount of time, I'm still wondering how such an unbelievable change could've been possible! I still can't believe that this happened for real, and that now the dominant n. 1 player is an Italian guy!

[@gablan1468]

Forza Italia! Amore dalla Bulgaria 🇧🇬 ♥️ 🇮🇹

[@riccardorusso7162]

Forza Dimitrov!! con Amore dall'Italia!! 😁

[@sleepyjoe8256]

@@gablan1468 grande fratello Tracio ❤️

[@alberto19761]

You said it right, Super Tennis' role was and will be crucial

[@solinvictus1234]

Great players born from great coaches. People like Diokovic, Raonic, Ljubisic, Sharapova, Gasquet was trained by an Italian coach Riccardo Piatti. That was the one that growed Sinner in his prime, at 15-17 y/o Sinner was training on the Piatti tennis center in Italy with Raonic, Diokovic and Sharapova...to say.

[@dzailibu]

Giving Piatti credit for Đoković 😂😂😂

[@MsRoy523]

fix your english buddy, growed is not a word 😂

[@solinvictus1234]

@MsRoy523 I can fix it without any issue. But i'm pretty sure you can't speak 4 language (without using google translate) 🤣

[@sallycar3114]

​@@solinvictus1234 bravo, diglielo

[@mikethebeginner]

A superior presentation, as is becoming usual for this excellent channel.

[@dionisioag3741]

16:53 Jannik Sinner is the number 1 in the ATP ranking, Matteo Berrettini is the number 1 of women's desires 😊😅😂

[@StudioNuvolari-i4n]

I wonder If they'd like to switch those rankings, even for one week!

[@TimelyAdventure]

@@StudioNuvolari-i4nSinner is doing ok with Kalinskaya though

[@Vic-E.]

​@@StudioNuvolari-i4nsinner would not agree

[@simplymilla]

So true ❤

[@antoniobranciforti8314]

😂😂😂😂

[@piehimself]

I may be biased (i’m italian) but this is excellent..very well researched. Bravo 💪🏼

[@danielaf1487]

Watching this video, I have to say I did notice that tennis is taken very seriously in the sports club here in Rome where I take my two teenage kids to their Tae Kwon Do classes. Several classmates of both my son and daughter play tennis with great passion and in general, the tournaments held at the sports club are a big deal. As a middle aged woman, this emphasis on tennis is something I never noticed while I was growing up here in Italy. It seems things have changed indeed!

[@gablan1468]

It is not even that quiet anymore... Darderi, Cobolli, Nardi, Berrettini, Sinner, Musetti, Arnaldi, Sonego, these are the ones that I can name straight off the top of my head. I'm sure I'm missing someone. All of these guys are young and hungry, and they know how to play.

[@rugbyfan8879]

In Italy you can find tennis court everywhere and a lot of people can play tennis...

[@j_9129]

Amazon video. As an italian I love the research you put in mentioning our newspapers and other stuff.

[@Andy_XT]

I had been waiting for half a century when I could say: Yes! Finally!

[@roccociccone597]

The Italian football federation could learn a thing or two from our tennis federation... I didn't really follow tennis up until recently, but it is awesome to see Italy do so well in a sport for once.

[@giovannimoriggi5833]

For once?! Italy is great in a lot of sports

[@walter_the_danger]

@@roccociccone597 lol "for once" il classico italiano che parla a vanvera per il gusto di lamentarsi.... vinciamo medaglie olimpiche con la pala e hai pure il coraggio di insinuare che per "una volta" siamo bravi in uno sport...abbiamo eccellenze in una marea di discipline, genio

[@skyjuke2006]

FORZA MAGICO JANNIK. È una sofferenza seguire tutti i suoi match (sono tanti), ma poi ci dà spesso una grande gioia.

[@andreasankara]

match noiosi più che non mai, non ti perdi nulla

[@Benito-on2we]

i giochi praticati con racchette fanno parte della cultura atletica italiana, che è spiegata bene nel libro dello storico Antonio Scaino, pubblicato in epoca rinascimentale: in tale libro viene descritto l'antico gioco tradizionale italiano della PALLACORDA, che gli anglofoni definiscono REAL TENNIS e che viene tuttora praticato in United Kingdom. Poi nel secolo scorso giocatori italiani hanno ideato il TENNIS SU SABBIA, che gli anglofoni definiscono BEACH TENNIS

[@alessioquaglino4529]

I am italian and I discovered my love of tennis only last year in the UK, for once I am proud of my country, thank you for doing this!

[@alessandrom7181]

"For once i'm proud of my country"..mavacagher te e tutti i comunistelli anti-italiani come te..🤦

[@eliasgordon89]

Very well reserearched. Thank you!

[@domenico9992]

What an amazing research job you did with this video

[@webrevolution.]

I have no analytics for your channel but I absolutely sure that way over 50% of your viewers on this video in particular are Italians. And they opened this video to feel proud and feel some pet talk, cause that's how Italian people like it.

[@tommasogiancaterino8188]

Nothing wrong with being proud of your country when it does something good and it innovates on the international level!

[@webrevolution.]

@@tommasogiancaterino8188 I agree with that. I didn't say it's something wrong. I just said that the viewers in my opinion are heavily squeued towards Italy. Because people generally like to get pet talks and likely many other viewers don't care as much to watch a video which is heavily focused on a specific country they don't care about. But it's just a guess. I might be wrong. I do not have access to the analytics of the channel.

[@tommasogiancaterino8188]

@ I don’t disagree with you, I didn’t quite see the point of the comment. It felt like a critique or a jab, that’s it 👌🏼love from Italy 🇮🇹

[@ilpuro]

Congrats on the analysis. Really appreciated

[@alemassa6632]

A very good analysis, congrats.

[@francescojsb]

9:10 Federico Cinà is pronounced "cheenà" (not seena) with the accent on the final A and a short double E, if anyone is curious to see him at 8 years old just watch the videos or photos of the 2015 US Open, more precisely the women's semifinal between Serena Williams and Roberta Vinci and the final between the two Italians, you can see him in Vinci's box since his father Francesco was Roberta's coach.

[@namenlos2578]

Well, Cinà's name was not the only one mis-pronounced here. All names were incredibly mis-pronounced (typical american habit)

[@trakkadda]

To be fair no nation in the world has today 4 players like Buffon, Maldini, Cannavaro and Totti.

[@scss1983]

amazing analysis with the key points highlighted, for sure we are also having a golden generation because talents like musetti are natural and not built. I think we all agree in italy that super tennis tv has been the best thing that cuold have happened to our country in terms of sport visibility... Before STtv, you could have seen on national tv only the Davis cup, nothing else...

[@JSEITSONEN]

Very good points out there ! You´ve done your homework !

[@marvindent6654]

It was an excellent update on the Italian Tennis Federation. Quite different than associations in how they operate and how they function. The former, is in fact, a ministerial post of the government with strict enforcement of certification requirements for its coaches. It is also egalitarian in its support of players and coaches. It contributes to varying games styles. Nothing remotely comparable to that approach exists in countries overseen by associations. It is a classic example of socialism versus capitalism. Aviation and Tennis are two areas in plan sight for everyone to evaluate.

[@alessandrobarone5413]

The best is yet to come for Italy. In few years there will be 3 italians in top 12. Sinner, Alcaraz, Rune, Mansik, Shelton, Draper, Musetti, Fonseca, Cobolli, Fils, Shang, Landaluce

[@karlitop7497]

A big yes to that solo Jasmine Paolini video !

[@Israel_estine_EDU]

Great insides! Great video 👌

[@ladystarlightnyc]

Super interesting and top quality video!

[@antonellaliaci2486]

Cina' s father and coach was Roberta Vinci's coach. That helps!

[@vladyslavdiumin4124]

It's a fantastic video🎉🎉🎉❤❤ you're really dig deep into the system of Italian tennis and how well it performs nowadays🎉❤❤

[@giancarlopetignano2850]

I love "Courtside Tennis" because these videos are really interesting and professional, thank you. I agree, Italy has many Italian top players. But as an Italian, I feel a bit disappointed that almost all of them DON'T live in Italy. The only Italian top players that live in Italy are Cobolli, Darderi, Vavassori and Paolini. That's the only thing that disappoints me (and some Italian fans, too). Aside from that, I agree and they're amazing players that can achieve a lot in the next years.

[@davidviner5783]

Tax.

[@giancarlopetignano2850]

@@davidviner5783 they're millionaires, it would be the same for them even if they lived in Italy. I mean, they can live wherever they want.. but if they lived in Italy we would appreciate them much more

[@Onyxraye]

Most of the best footballers do not live in their country of birth. It means nothing

[@giancarlopetignano2850]

@@Onyxraye well, it does mean for Italians because there's widespread patriotism here. Football is also a different sport and in most cases you're forced to live in another country. In tennis it's not always necessary, not for italian players because we have the tennis academies here I'm not saying we disrespect an Italian player just because they don't live in Italy. But we prefer players who live with us, especially if they're top players

[@StudioNuvolari-i4n]

​@@giancarlopetignano2850 as an Italian I have a different opinion. I honestly don't care where they live at this stage of their career. They don't spend much time in Italy during their professional career (3-4 weeks per year? 5, at max?), I don't see why they should be forced to pay taxes in Italy. When they retire and If they decide to open a company, live and work in Italy on a consistent base, then it's a different story.

[@inezgraer5482]

Love it! Refreshingly welcome!❤

[@youknowitshecate]

5:18 "much older berrettini" was foul he's only 28

[@nhilun0000]

0:54 Andy Murray’s voice: “Male Grand Slam Champion”

[@ahmadadjie3587]

Im waiting for u to make video about shanghai and six slam

[@jlab5284]

Fognini has left the chat 😅

[@davidviner5783]

Giorgi left the country.

[@bluekirbyrocks]

I mean he just lost to a 17 year old so it's probably good to not mention him.

[@stefanogagliano6067]

Fognini is a clown

[@StudioNuvolari-i4n]

Respect for Fabio, a tremendous player ✌🏼

[@solinvictus1234]

Fognini was technically very strong. But he didn't had the head of a Champion sadly.

[@Aliceteacup]

Sinner has won 7 titles in 2024 not 6: AO, Miami, Rotterdam, Halle, Cincinnati, USO, Shanghai.

[@francescojsb]

He spoke about hardcourt titles, Halle is on grass

[@Aliceteacup]

@@francescojsb👍

[@robertlonghi7949]

Italy has done the same with swimming. They are now a top swimming nation coming from nowhere.

[@marcozz5464]

Not really nowhere, we used to have some really good swimmers. Meaby not the wole team was that good but with really great peek. Pellegrini was a double world record holder and an inspirations for a lot of swimmers, even from abroad like sarah sjostrom. Magnini won a lot of world medals, scozzoli some world medals and a lot of european golds, in the early 00s fioravante won 2 golds in the same olimpic. And rosolino was one of the best with a olimpic goald and a lot of battles with ian thorpe with medals in 200 free. This are the biggest name i remamber, but in the past 30 years we have some world level athlet in swimming. Now the moovment is surly really strong, we are under just a few nations, but not really coming from nowhere. UK is now and in the past 10 years top level, and they come from almost nothing. I thik they did a good program for London 2012, and in the following years started florish

[@adeliomoro2069]

With volleyball too , long before tennis and swimming

[@antoniobranciforti8314]

Anche con Pallavolo e Atletica.

[@sleepyjoe8256]

mortacci tua impedito

[@SoniaGelli-y2o]

Complessivamente basta guardare quante medaglie vinciamo alle olimpiadi

[@peymanrastegar915]

Very nice work thanks

[@Aman1nFull]

I wouldn't say France dominated tennis. You need to win grand slams for that, not just have a bunch of players in the ATP 100.

[@thetasteofwater918]

They were all inspired by the GOAT Fognini

[@alessandrodesantis13]

Perfect video

[@TommyLorusso-rt6sf]

3 years ago Supertennis had all 500 Atp of the year

[@jn9907a]

Big fan of the channel. I have to offer that there hasn't been an American Grand Slam winner in over 20 years welcomes amending or caveat. That is specific to the Men's tour. All too often, accomplishment of WTA players get branded as "Greatest Female" or "Most of any woman". Accomplishment of ATP players get branded as "Greatest or Best in Tennis" not "Greatest Male", for example. I appreciate and love the video and keen analysis (as always). Your content is some of the best around. I'm hypersensitive to Americans who have won Grand Slams in the last 20ish years: Coco, Sloane, Serena, Venus, Lindsay, Sofia. Lots of S's but I digress.

[@simoz78]

Of course they should be branded that way. The greatest female/woman is barely top 500 of men

[@oliverorchard6774]

I want their to be a video on the Eastern European dominance of Tennis since the 1990s. It would be interesting to understand how nations in Eastern Europe produced such great players.

[@trolley4388]

Quietly producing? I don’t think so. There’s a tennis club next to my house, and they shout and curse all day long. In fact, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind my fellow countrymen that they could also produce tennis players in a quieter manner, if you please.

[@flaviobarruffo9672]

Italians do it better because Fabio Fognini is an idol and an inspiration for future generation!

[@samuelerogo3440]

Tldr: they put money in long-term projects. Who would've guessed it

[@asbestomolesto]

Long story short, I strongly believe that FINALLY they switched training players 100% of the time on clay court only, to train A LOT on fast cement courts. FINALLY!!!

[@VH07654]

Great video with plenty of insights. I wonder if Spain is then falling behind in investing in tennis? or are they keeping up with the various initiatives made in Italy?

[@pietrociompi5883]

To prove this point even more (if it was even needed) both male and female team Italy were elected world champ this week ❤

[@yeetsauceyi9471]

Bro left out Cobolli in the thumbnail 😂😂😂

[@maxdgr]

Spot on 👍🇮🇹👊

[@martinsenoner8186]

Supertennis is the only linear Tv i watsch (today the final of the 6 Kings Slam)

[@esihlesaunders6023]

On that note, please say something about Jasmine Paolini

[@helloeveryone0123]

i wish my parents were as supportive as these people helping those kids. im a sporty kid, but im forced not to play any sports because "you can get injured"

[@AnthonyGaming69420]

As an Italian were just good

[@Robe-d.L]

You forgot Switzerland that dominated tennis from 2005

[@alessandroludovicostresa860]

E vedrete fra 15 anni cosa succederà nel mondo del padel...

[@AlessandroArnulfo]

bravo 👏

[@luisburgos2245]

More of Noah playing tennis.

[@llolanf3650]

And as soon as they are successful and can pay back the investment they move to Monaco and pay no taxes to the system that supported them

[@AbraXas-bi9ux]

just like all other European players

[@catarticontrary]

Just as you would do if you had a chance and for work you travel 90% of the time… Sinner does not live in Italy, and make enough money to live whenever he likes, namely Monaco. While you’re poor and cry on KZbin. Get over yourself

[@marisalombardi385]

Berrettini: sexiest man alive ❤

[@amafirenze-vi1uh]

Super Italian team.

[@Cristianodoc]

Non dimenticate la pasta

[@jkmertz7140]

se te la dimentichi si scuoce

[@antoniosann]

I blame it on the football

[@ProvinoProvetto]

I didn' t catch the " sucker punch " joke

[@koolklem7889]

"French dominated tennis" ? In the 20's maybe 😅

[@mendrikaJ]

Is Flavio Cobolli on the thumbnail ?

[@francescojsb]

No, he isn't

[@paolomedri6791]

​@@francescojsb yes, he is. Top right.

[@JohnRome-xn7hx]

I must have missed the french dominance 🤔

[@emmanuelokosun7624]

Dude… Tsonga, Monfils, Gasquet, and Gilles Simon were all top 10 players at some point and they won plenty titles in arguably the most competitive era. Compared to many other countries, they were quite a dominant force even if not on some of the other countries’ level.

[@JohnRome-xn7hx]

​@@emmanuelokosun7624 mate, they won an astounding 0 grand slams... i don't know how many master 1000? Did they win the Davis Cup? "Dominance" has a meaning and it simply doesn't fit with french results over the last 20 years.

[@emmanuelokosun7624]

@@JohnRome-xn7hxI agree lol 😅

[@lorenzop3982]

​@@JohnRome-xn7hx they won only one 1000 thanks to Tsonga

[@arialvarezzzzz]

Look at the prime minister! Iykyk

[@nicolepallaresferrer6187]

I'm going to take note from Murray and say the US has not produced a MALE grand slam winner in 23 years.

[@Dudu10ototoso]

Bro left cobboli 😂😂😂😂 he is the second with more potential to get high rank .. the first is musetti

[@andreabrambati4285]

Incredibile, qualcosa che funziona!

[@agm2531]

Spain 🇪🇸

[@TheRoccaccio]

Fabio Fognini the best Italian player

[@elz6550]

Just a note, you mispronounced all the names. Except Sinner.

[@andreagv3]

Thank you Courtside Tennis for focusing on Italian tennis with this well edited and researched video. Can you make a stronger effort to pronounce player's names right? You absolutely butchered 90% of the player's names! It's respectful if you're pronouncing a foreigners' name to do some research, and get it right. It shows you care about the athlete, the country, and the sport if you put some work into it. I know that Italian is not your first language, but some mistakes are so basic they could be easily corrected. For example you keep on pronouncing "Schiavone" as "Sssshavone" when it's pretty basic in Italian, the combination "CH" makes a "K" sound, so the name should be pronounced more like "Skiavone". You can easily see it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iaSnknmwa8qVna8 Also, you completely destroy Michelangelo Dell'Edera's name by putting the stress at the end of the name, when in Italian the stress (unless explicitly indicated by an accent) is always on the first or second syllable. It makes your content more appreciated and professional if you also focus on getting people's names right. You can do better!! Cheers!

[@andreamantovani5354]

Salaries are so low compared to living costs, basically the same as 20 years ago, that choosing a tennis career even as a coach, doesn't represent a career risk at all. That's the reason of this rise

[@conilmionomecripto]

Because finally Italians start dislike soccer.

[@Tepes1980]

Don't worry, give us a couple of decades and, since now we have success, we'll get complacent, stop consistently developing the new generations and we'll be back to being irrelevant. It's how it usually works for us Italians.

[@nonindividual]

😂

[@Jhjhjj675]

We are not yet dominating but all the haters crying 😂😂😂😂 as an Italian I LOVET IT….keep crying losers 😂😂😂😂

[@susanbachelder9521]

Love this report on the Italians - they have an intense program that served them well, and that I am sure the Chinese have now distributed throughout the PRC. Just a matter of a season or two and they will be lightning hot - I mean Triple Z and BU??????? the Shangs??? these kids are good and just need some seasoning. The Asian tournaments will no longer be easy pickings for the Europeans any more. mark my words.......

[@MaheshMahesh-hp3fz]

But what about Russia. Russian players dominant both ATP AND WTA PLAYERS

[@jimincos]

female italians win billie jean cup so italian wta is better

[@kingqueen-qg9db]

There is an element in Italy that everyone ignores (for fear it is really real): the falling birth rate. In Italy there are very few children, the lowest percentage in the world. --------What does this have to do with tennis? Quickly explained: in the baby boom years, every small town could form one or even two football teams. Where the best athletes naturally converged as it was a popular sport. ========================================== Then with the decline in birth rates the towns and cities emptied of children, and a phenomenon was born: many football teams merged together because they did not have enough players to form a football team. ======== So many children/young people became ‘isolated’ and moved to sports where the number of participants in the team from 15 like football became 1. ==========================Tennis has thus become widespread, which in any case enjoys great popularity in Italy among adults and the elderly, and facilities for playing can be found everywhere. But the sociological factor must always be kept in mind when it comes to sport. NB: the best Italian tennis players come from the central and northern regions of Italy, where sports facilities are much more widespread. PS: the Italians have not quite understood this, but by the end of this century their population will be reduced by half. As a people they are doomed to extinction. The demographic decline that began 40 years ago has become a more serious biological factor than a pandemic like the Black Death. The accumulated delay is so serious that there is no possibility of remedying it.

[@noway3847]

Meno male che ce lo spieghi tu😂

[@YuriAchermann]

ATP CEO, Chairman and most of the board are Italians...

[@djfunkychicken]

Serbia has only 6 million people Serbian government doesn't even provide any funding or assistance to players. Yet in the past 20 years: World #1 in mens singles (Djokovic) #8 Tipsarevic #12 Troicki World #1 in men's doubles (Zimonjic) World #1 in women's singles (Ana Ivanovic) #18 Jankovic

[@gabriele5719]

So what exactly your point is?

[@sleepyjoe8256]

@@djfunkychicken you would look brilliant under italian dominance

[@flaviomanderioli643]

Fortunately, sports are not always dominated by same protagonists. Nice to see others having a chance. Go Italy!!!!!!

[@scottross8578]

We have to stop saying the U.S. hasn't produced a grand slam champion in 21 years. Yes, they have. They just haven't been in singles and they haven't had testicles.

[@Bear-ow9gy]

Exactly, men's singles is the only serious contest

[@MrMarkfenwick]

USA was dominating 10 years ago??? With who???

[@giacomocarmo492]

Forza Milan forza sinner

[@fabrizioriva1281]

Not quite: there is just Sinner, the other lot is business as usual

[@jimincos]

ensomma

[@abl1699]

True

[@jimincos]

@@abl1699 bronze medal man singles this year and berrettini won a lot of titles to this year and cobolli is getting stronger