Orlando Sirola was an Italian tennis player, born on 30 April 1928 in Fiume, today the Croatian city of Rijeka, and died on 13 November 1995. He only began playing tennis at the age of 22. In 1958 he won the singles title at the Bavarian Tennis Championships in Munich after a five-set victory in the final against Luis Ayala. His best Grand Slam singles result was at Roland Garros in 1960, where he beat the number one seed Barry MacKay in the quarterfinals to reach the semifinals, and he won the Roland Garros doubles title in 1959 with Nicola Pietrangeli. He was a member of the Italian teams that finished runners-up to Australia in the Davis Cup in 1960 and 1961.
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