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Gianni Clerici Day III, April 16-17, 2026

The Call for Papers is now open for the international conference
Tennis in Literature and Film
organized by the Historical Collections Center
and the Department of Historical, Philological, and Social Sciences
at the Catholic University of Brescia.

Gianni Clerici Fund

A treasure for tennis lovers and beyond.
Books, magazines, posters, photographs — all this and much more
can be found in the archive of the renowned journalist and writer,
now preserved at the library of the Catholic University of Brescia.

Itineraries

Word from the ‘Little Scribe’

Today, July 24, 2025, Gianni Clerici would have turned 95. To honor his memory, we are publishing the beautiful tribute written in English by Alessandro Marinaro in 2022, shortly after his passi...

‘A Toast to Gianni!’

'Game, set, match. Jannik Sinner wins' Rino Tommasi in 1971 How wonderful it would have been to hear Gianni Clerici and Rino Tommasi commentate the first historic victory of an Italian at ...

The Predestined Sinner

On November 8, 2019, Gianni Clerici titled an article in Repubblica: “The Predestined Sinner: never seen an Italian so strong.” Jannik, a fresh eighteen-year-old, had just defeated Frances Tiafoe ...

Wimbledon 1960: Diary of a ‘giornatore’

Journalist or writer… writer or journalist… why choose? Welcome the ‘giornatore’! Gianni Clerici, despite those who thought they could pigeonhole him, decided not to split himself in two, but to...

News

ITF women's circuit

Kaja Juvan queen in the Castle

24 July 2025

The 2025 edition of the Internazionali Femminili di Brescia crowned Slovenian Kaja Juvan, who defeated Austrian Julia Grabher in a close final (7-6, 7-5). The Ljubljana native, formerly ranked No. Ranked 58th in the WTA rankings, she has climbed a…

ITF women's circuit

The posters of the Clerici Fund at the Internazionali in Castello

24 July 2025

The panel dedicated to Wimbledon From May 26 to June 1, the 16th edition of the Brescia Women's International Tennis Tournament will take place, organized in Castello by the Tennis Forza e Costanza 1911 Association, in collaboration with the Carolina…

ATP Tour

Cobolli-Darderi: The charge of 101

24 July 2025

Sunday, April 6, 2025, a day that will go down in Italian tennis history: at 3 p.m., Flavio Cobolli won the ATP 250 in Bucharest, defeating Argentina's Sebastián Báez with a double 6-4; three hours later, it was Luciano Darderi's…