In the early 70's my mother and I had crushes on an Italian tennis
player named Adriano Panatta. I think we watched him play at
Wimbledon, but am not sure about that, and that's *all* I remember
about him.   The other day I ran across a postcard in an old scrapbook
with his picture on it, and it took me right back!  I'm interested in
information about his tennis career, and in any information that might
be available about him since he retired from competition.    It would
be fun to surprise my mother with both the old postcard and the
information.  Thanks!

Hi yreka and thanks for the question.  
Here is some information I was able to put together about Adriano
Panatta.
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Factual Information:

Name: Adriano Panatta
Birthdate: July 09, 1950
Birthplace: Rome, Italy 
Career Singles Titles: 5
Career Win-Loss Record: 228-145

Singles Titles 
1)	1975-11-06	Stockholm
2)	1976-05-23	Rome
3)	1976-05-31	Roland Garros at Paris
4)	1978-10-29	Tokyo
5)	1980-05-12	Florence


2002 He was Tournament Director at the “Tennis Masters Roma” from May
6-12,

2000 Federazione Italiana Tennis - Sport Director/Technical Director
Adriano Panatta
www.etatennis.com/sites/jubileepublication.pdf 

2000 “Adriano Panatta (ITA) a successful European junior player and
later European clay court professional in turn became a dominant
figure as captain and administrator of Italian Tennis”
www.etatennis.com/sites/jubileepublication.pdf

1969 – 1983 Career statistics :
http://www.tenniscorner.net/player.php?playerid=PAA010&tour=ATP

1980 “In 1980 Lendl, unbeaten in seven singles and three doubles, led
Czechoslovakia to its lone Davis Cup. Before an uproarious final crowd
in Prague, he anchored the 4-1 triumph over Italy. He won both his
singles, beating Corado Barazzutti, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1, 6-2, on the first
day. Then he and Tom Smid clinched with a stirring 3-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3,
6-4, doubles decision over Adriano Panatta and Paolo Bertolucci. “
http://www.tennisfame.org/enshrinees/ivan_lendl.html

1976: “Beating Harold Solomn and Eddie Dibbs, Adriano Panatta won the
French Open.”
http://www.sports-trivia.net/sportstrivia.html

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Pictures:

Recent picture:
http://masterroma.iol.it/download/zoom2.html

Google images of Adriano Panatta
http://images.google.com/images?q=+%22Adriano+Panatta%22&svnum=10&hl=pt&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&filter=0

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Adriano Panatta in the news:

"I couldn't believe it when I saw the entry list," thus Adriano
Panatta begun his speech on the women's tournament who will host the
top 10 of the world: “
http://www.masters-series.com/roma/news/allstar.asp

“Adriano Panatta, who had a fine run at the Italian Open the previous
week and is the only man to beat Borg in Paris “
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/features/cover/news/2001/05/15/french_flashback/

“Adriano Panatta, the former tennis star who was also coach of the
Italian national tennis team.”
http://www.archive.independent.com.mt/441/s2.html

“The director of the Italian Open, ex-tennis star Adriano Panatta,
tried to downplay concerns and assure fans that measures are being
taken.
"What does tennis have to do with soccer?" said Panatta, responding to
reporters' questions earlier this week. "In any case, we will take the
necessary precautions."
http://www.slam.ca/SlamTennisArchive/may13_soc.html


And to finish with, strangely enough on July 9th (his birth date) 1877

“On July 9, 1877, the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club begins
its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon, then an outer-suburb of
London. Twenty-one amateurs showed up to compete in the Gentlemen's
Singles tournament, the only event at the first Wimbledon. The winner
was to take home a 25-guinea trophy”


I hope the above information is of help to you.  If you need any
clarification donīt hesitate to ask.

Thank you for the question.

THX1138


Search Strategy:
"Adriano Panatta"
://www.google.com/search?hl=pt&ie=ISO-8859-1&as_qdr=all&q=+%22Adriano+Panatta%22&btnG=Pesquisa+Google&lr=lang_en


Also have a look in Google groups here:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%20%22Adriano%20Panatta%22&hl=pt&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&sa=N&tab=dg

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Clarification of Answer by thx1138-ga on 24 Jul 2002 12:32 PDT

Hi Again yreka, and thank you for the nice comments and rating.

Yes the Google image link is in Portuguese (I am in Brazil) sorry, I
forgot to switch to the English version of Google before I started my
research.  Anyway here is the English version of the same search:

http://images.google.com/images?q=+%22Adriano+Panatta%22&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&as_qdr=all&filter=0

Thanks for the question once again.

Best Regards

THX1138

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Request for Answer Clarification by yreka-ga on 24 Jul 2002 14:51 PDT

Oh! It wasn't a problem, thx1138, I simply thought it was cool! Thanks again.

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Clarification of Answer by thx1138-ga on 24 Jul 2002 15:30 PDT

No problem :)

Thanks again

THX1138

Thank you!  You did a lot of digging in a short amount of time, and
found some good references.  One for example, reminded me that it must
have been Wimbledon in 1972 when we were rooting for him (to no avail)
to beat Jimmy Connors!  And the piece of Wimbledon trivia was an
unexpected gem.  By the way...is that Portuguese on that Google images
page?