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This article was published September 11, 2015 at 18:36.
The last change is the 12 September 2015 at 11:54.
NEW YORK – Two Italian, Roberta Vinci and Flavia Pennetta will be played today, Saturday, September 12, the final of the US Open tennis tournament in New York. For us it is a unique sporting event in history, so that the Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has decided to take a plane to seeing the final live and to pay tribute to these two girls who gave us suddenly energy and confidence. Renzi start ‘at 9.30 this morning, arrive at JFK at 14.30 local, just in time to run at Flushing Meadow, the Arthur Ashe center court where the 15 hours American, the Italian nine hours, you will play’ the final. Then immediately after the game to return home.
In fact, it had never happened that two Italian athletes arrived together in a final of a Grand Slam tournament. For Vinci and Pennetta was not even ever get to an end of major tournaments. Each played his game, but that of Vinci was a miracle, concentration, tenacity and grit: no one imagined that Roberta, born in 1983, number 43 in the world rankings, could beat yesterday afternoon in the semifinals of the US Open at the number one World Serena Williams in the house, Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York: 2-6 6-4 6-4! There even she hoped: “This morning when I woke up I said to myself, playing quiet not think that the other side is Serena, enjoy the game and the moment. Certainly I thought I could win. ” Not thought bookmakers, who paid his win 300 to 1.
And in a few hoped Flavia Pennetta, born in 1982, number 26 in the charts, yesterday morning could beat the world number two, the Romanian Simona Halep. Instead these ultrentenni won both, have won these two Italian girls, the first born in Taranto, the second in Brindisi, leaving the audience astonished and Williams, who was looking for a grand slam history, destroyed. With them also he won the Puglia, won the Italian courts and, let’s face it, with the pride that we have passed with success in a city ‘impossible, we also won a little’ all of us.
The game of Pennetta was easier, it won 6-1 6-3 against Halep. Win one of the most difficult and tense for the size of the opponent. And in fact, the start is difficult, the American won 6 to 2 September 1 Williams was aiming to reach a historic group of three women in the epic of the courts had awarded the four major tournaments of the tennis world, Maureen Connolly, Margaret Court and Steffi Graf, the only women to win the four major international tournaments in a season.
At Williams he missed only New York for the Grand Slam, and yesterday was to be the game easier. When we saw her play Tuesday night in another great match against her sister Serena, the audience was sparked by his side. As it was yesterday after September 1 But at the end of a long exchange of endless 18 rebounds in the third game it was awarded the point Vinci. Who shouted for joy and you and ‘to the public pointing to herself, as if to say you understand it or not there are too? Great emotions, great show and great unforgettable day. Now the appointment is in a few hours to 21 (15 in New York) for a historic all-Italian final. It had never happened, and who knows if ever happen again. Do you think that in the last four matches in which he played CONRO Williams, the Vinci had never even won a set.
It went very well also to Lavazza, the first Italian brand to have chosen to sponsor the US Open in offering coffee rivers Hundreds of thousands of people. Lavazza has followed a path of cultural and sporting image not imagine that there could be this victory. And without being able to imagine that in these US Open, however, things went the winner was an Italian, the two playmates Puglia if the play to the last ball and you just have to wish both. We just have to ask whether the final will go ‘to look at the game even Donald Trump we had encountered at the stadium a few days ago and told us: “I love Italy and Italians.”
The triumph of Italian did overshadow the men’s tournament, where yesterday they played the semi-finals: two games without history, won easily over defending champion Djokovic Cilic with a humiliating 6-0 6-1 6-2 and Federer on compatriot Wawrinka 6-4 6-3 6-1. Sunday’s final, weather permitting. But before the stage is reserved for our girls.
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