ATV Tennis Open

The ATV Tennis Open reaches its fourteenth edition this year. The first tournament, worth $10,000, began in 2005, with the Italian Romina Oprandi winning the title. The leap in quality came in 2007, when the prize money was raised to $100,000 in an edition with a stellar participation field: the Belgian Caroline Maes won, but there were two future top-10 and Slam finalists such as Sara Errani and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova(fifteen years old at the time), as well as Mirjana Lucic and Kristen Flipkens, who would reach the semifinals in the following years, respectively, at the Australian Open and Wimbledon; Also on the scoreboard was Alizè Cornet, who the following year would reach the final at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, coming close to a place among the top ten in the world. 2008 is the year of the success of Tathiana Garbin, current captain of the Billie Jean King Cup (Italian women’s national team), and of the first time at the Antico Tiro a Volo of the then sixteen-year-old Camila Giorgi. In 2015, Martina Trevisan, recent semi-finalist at Roland Garros 2022, triumphed. The 2018 final is history: the very young Dayana Yastremska and Anastasia Potapova are competing for the title, having faced each other in the Junior Wimbledon final a few months earlier, while the 2019 final saw Sara Errani return to success after a ride as difficult as it is exciting. The 2022 edition saw the triumph of the young Tara Wurth, who, starting from the qualifiers, reached the final by beating the top seed Chloe Paquet. The last edition of 2023 saw the triumph of the Spanish Jéssica Bouzas Maneiro who prevailed against the Cypriot Raluca Georgiana Serban.