Potito Starace

16/04/2008

Potito Strarace three times Champion!

Already for the 3rd time in a row Potito Starace, ATP 36 and Nr. 1 in Italy, won his home challenger in Napoli in a very closed final against the Brasilian Marcos Daniel.In the US 100 000.- event Potito made it to the semifinal, where he beat the upcoming young Spanish player Pablo Andujar 6:4/6:1. In the final the Italian took the first set 6:4, the Brasilian Daniel (ATP 91) took the second also 6:4. In the final set, Daniel was 5:4 and matchpoint up, when Starace was able to play his best tennis and turned the match [click for more]

New record for Potito Starace: 27!

17/10/2007

Italy’s Number 1 tennis player Potito Starace has moved up this week to number 27.
Potito is now among the 10 best Italian players ever (Open Era), but he sees it as a good starting point, not as a goal. His team, made of coach Umberto Rianna and Stefano Baraldo will continue it’s work during 2008 at the Blue Team Academy in Arezzo. The contract has been renewed this week.
Umberto Rianna sees quite some potential left: “I think the key to move up another 10 spots lies in the improvements Potito will make on hard court”. [click for more]

30/07/2007

Potito's golden week

Potito Starace has just ended the best week of his career in the Austrian Alps. At the 650.000$ tournament of Kitzbühel, he reached the final in singles and won the doubles event with Luis Horna.
It was a thriller week, and Potito had to come back from set and match points down against both Mayer and Seppi. Even against Augustin Calleri, in the semifinal he had to face a set point for the Argentinan in the second set, but finally closed the match 6-4 7-5.
In the final s against Juan Monaco Potito probably paid for all the efforts of the week. After two spectacular sets 7-5 3-6, Potito's physical shape worsened, and Monaco broke int the seventh game to close 6-4.
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