3 min learnUp to date: Apr 15, 2026 01:33 AM IST
The ATP Finals. The Davis Cup Finals. And now a Wimbledon tuneup on grass courts that might be performed on the soccer pitch inside Milan’s San Siro stadium.
Led by top-ranked Jannik Sinner, who received Wimbledon final 12 months, the Italian tennis motion retains on including new occasions.
The Italian Tennis and Padel Federation has bought the rights for a 250-level ATP Tour event in Brussels that’s held in October, federation president Angelo Binaghi introduced Tuesday.
The occasion might be held every June beginning in 2028.
“There’s nonetheless time to resolve the place to play it,” Binaghi stated. “For local weather causes, it’s going to most likely be held in northern Italy.”
Binaghi famous that the Madrid Open is introducing observe courts inside Actual Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium, so the San Siro might be an choice: “For as soon as, we wouldn’t be the primary to do it.”
Italy beforehand hosted a WTA event on grass in Gaiba from 2022-24. The federation can be internet hosting the ATP Finals, presently in Turin, via 2030 and the Davis Cup Finals in Bologna via subsequent 12 months.
Sinner and Paolini
In the meantime, the federation is getting ready to host the Italian Open subsequent month.
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After Sinner beat Carlos Alcaraz within the Monte Carlo Masters closing on Sunday, organizers are optimistic that he may turn out to be the primary Italian man to say the singles title on the Foro Italico since Adriano Panatta 50 years in the past.
“We’ve acquired to try to win the boys’s singles. The time is correct,” Binaghi stated on the event presentation, noting that Italy has three different gamers ranked within the prime 25: No. 9 Lorenzo Musetti, No. 16 Flavio Cobolli and No. 21 Luciano Darderi.
Alcaraz beat Sinner in final 12 months’s Rome closing in Sinner’s first event again from a three-month doping ban; whereas Jasmine Paolini earned Italy the titles in each ladies’s singles and doubles (with companion Sara Errani).
Retractable roof
Work on a retractable roof for Campo Centrale is slated to start out instantly after this 12 months’s Italian Open and be prepared for the 2028 version.
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Capability for the revised stadium will enhance from 10,500 to 12,400 for tennis; and extra for different sports activities equivalent to basketball.
fifth Slam
Binaghi additionally stated he nonetheless hopes to make the Italian Open a fifth Grand Slam to affix the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open as the game’s greatest tournaments.
Binaghi first raised the concept final 12 months — which might upend a century of tennis historical past. His federation is enthusiastic about buying the license for the Madrid Open, which instantly precedes Rome within the tennis calendar. The thought is that by eliminating Madrid and making Rome greater it may represent a fifth Slam.
“I give it some thought on daily basis,” Binaghi stated. “There’s solely a short window once we can obtain this. … Italy would profit from it for 100 years. It’s our dream.”