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Italian Open: Start date, past winners, history & more

The Italian Open serves as the last WTA and ATP 1000 event of the clay court season in Rome.

Alexander Zverev was the men's Italian Open champion in 2024, beating Nicolas Jarry in the final, whilst Iga Swiatek was the winner of the women's event.

Italian Open Dates

The 2025 Italian Open will take place between 7th May and 18th May 2025.

Italian Open Venue

The clay-court event will once again take place at the Foro Italico - an iconic sports complex on the slopes of Monte Mario in Rome, Italy.

The venue opened back in 1932 and has two iconic courts with a capacity of more than 10,000.

Italian Open History

Having been founded back in 1930, the Italian Open remains one of the staples of the tennis calendar.

The event began in Milan before moving to Rome's Foro Italico in 1935 and it was formerly part of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour but became a combined ATP and WTA event back in 2011.

And more recently in 2023, the length of the Italian Open was extended to 12 days like other ATP Masters 1000 events such as the Miami Open and Indian Wells.

Italian Open Past Winners

There have been numerous big-name winners of the Italian Open in the Open era and in the men's event Rafael Nadal remains the most successful player with 10 titles to his name.

The veteran Spaniard last won the outdoor clay-court tournament back in 2021 with Djokovic collecting his sixth title in 2022.

There was a surprise at last year's men's tournament with Medvedev winning the event for the first time following a 7-5 7-5 defeat of Holger Rune in the final.

Other previous winners of the men's tournament include Murray and Alexander Zverev, who were champions in 2016 and 2017 respectively.

Bjorn Borg is the youngest-ever winner of the men's Italian Open, having been just 17 years, 11 months and two days old when he prevailed in 1974.

Chris Evert holds the record for most title wins (5) and most final appearances (7) in the women's event - her last title triumph came in 1982.

Since then, a handful of other players have gone on to win the women's Italian Open on more than one occasion, including Maria Sharapova, Serena Williams (4 titles), Elina Svitolina and Swiatek.

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