Vittoria Paganetti, 17 year old from the Bari tennis club (in the photo with the coach Raffaele Gregolane and the athletic trainer Fabio Cirillo) enters the main draw of the Italian Internationals. She got the better of Beatrice Ricci (6-4 6-4) and, by virtue of this result, obtained a wild card for the final phase of the key event on red clay made in Italy.
«It is a great satisfaction for Puglia and for the entire tennis movement – comments Dodo Avisi, national vice president of Fitp – given that Rome is a tournament painted as almost a fifth slam. Vittoria, thus, follows in the wake of Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci. We are satisfied.”
The Apulian tennis player will take to the court between Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th May with the determination of an almost 18 year old living a dream experience. «We came here for two days of great challenges – adds Gordinene, technical manager of Amagon, tennis school at the Bari coach – and we achieved the result. Vittoria, in reality, believed in it from the beginning and for us it is a confirmation of the work done. We never forced her hand and regularly accompanied her on a path of regular and stimulating growth. Professionally speaking, it is a pride to follow a tennis player at the Foro Italico after seeing her play from the age of 5.”
