Italian tennis star Flavia Pennetta has been a Grand Slam-champion in both singles and doubles. She was Italy's first top-ten female singles player on 17 August 2009 and the first Italian to be ranked world No. 1 in doubles on 28 February 2011. In 2015 she became a Grand Slam singles champion, beating her childhood friend Roberta Vinci in the first all-Italian Grand Slam final.
Pennetta won ten other WTA singles titles, including the 2014 Indian Wells Masters, in which she defeated the top two seeds. She also was a mainstay in the Fed Cup team competition, helping to win four titles for her home country. Her highlights in doubles include winning the 2010 WTA Finals and the 2011 Australian Open with partner Gisela Dulko, and reaching the 2005 and 2014 US Open finals, partnering respectively with Elena Dementieva and Martina Hingis.
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