Nicola Pietrangeli

Nicola Pietrangeli was an Italian tennis player, born in Tunis in 1933 and raised in Rome from his early teens, who became one of the greatest champions in Italian tennis. He won the French Championships singles title at Roland Garros in 1959 and 1960 and lost the final in 1961 and 1964, and he also took the men's doubles title in 1959 with Orlando Sirola and the mixed doubles in 1958. He won the Italian Open in 1957 and 1961 and reached the Wimbledon semifinals in 1960. He played a record 164 rubbers for Italy in the Davis Cup, winning a record 120, and later captained the Italian side that won the cup in 1976. He entered the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1986.