ATV Tennis Open

The ATV Tennis Open reaches its fifteenth edition this year. The first tournament, worth $10,000, kicked off 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 field of participation: the Belgian Caroline Maes won, but there were two future top-10 and Slam finalists in Sara Errani and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (at the time fifteen years old), 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 in the draw was Alizè Cornet, who the following year would reach the final at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia, almost making it into the top ten in the world. 2008 was the year of success for Tathiana Garbin, current captain of the Billie Jean King Cup (Italian women’s national team), and the first time at the Antico Tiro a Volo for the then sixteen-year-old Camila Giorgi. In 2015, Martina Trevisan, recent semifinalist at Roland Garros 2022, triumphed. The 2018 final is history: competing for the title were the very young Dayana Yastremska and Anastasia Potapova, who a few months earlier had faced each other in the Wimbledon Junior final, while the 2019 final saw Sara Errani return to success after a ride as difficult as it was exciting. The 2022 edition saw the triumph of the young Tara Wurth, who, starting from the qualifications, 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.