Adriano Panatta

Italian Born 1950 183 cm Right handed
Head to heads vs Bjorn Borg (16)vs Manuel Orantes (16)vs Ilie Nastase (13)vs Jimmy Connors (11)vs Vitas Gerulaitis (10)vs Corrado Barazzutti (10)

Match log

1983

KitzbuhelClay, July
R64LHans Dieter Beutel4-6 4-6
Davis Cup WG QF: ITA vs ARGClay, July
RRLGuillermo Vilas2-6 2-6 1-6
Brescia CH, challengerClay, June
R32LNey Keller3-6 0-3 RET
VeniceClay, June
QFLBernard Fritz3-6 1-6
R16WPender Murphy6-3 6-1
R32WJean Marc Piacentile6-3 6-3
RomeClay, May
R64LPablo Arraya5-7 0-6
FlorenceClay, May
R32LEddie Dibbs2-6 6-4 3-6
MilanCarpet, March
R32LTim Mayotte6-7 3-6
NancyHard, March
R32LWojtek Fibak2-6 1-6

1982

StockholmHard, November
R16LErick Iskersky4-6 1-6
R32WHans Simonsson7-5 6-3
R64WUlf Pettersson7-6 6-1
Paris IndoorHard, October
QFLBill Scanlon0-6 3-6
R16WMel Purcell6-2 6-4
R32WJoao Soares6-2 6-3
ViennaHard, October
R16LBrian Gottfried1-6 4-6
R32WPer Hjertquist7-6 6-4
BaselHard, October
R32LChip Hooper6-7 5-7
BarcelonaClay, October
R64LPablo Arraya6-7 4-6
GenevaClay, September
R32LVitas Gerulaitis4-6 6-2 1-6
PalermoClay, September
R32LJuan Avendano2-6 5-7
Knokke CH, challengerClay, August
R16LHaroon Ismail1-6 2-6
R32WRoberto Vizcaino6-3 6-2
San Benedetto CH, challengerClay, July
R16LMassimo Zampieri3-6 5-7
R32WTrevor Allan6-1 6-3
Davis Cup WG QF: ITA vs NZLClay, July
RRLRussell Simpson6-4 3-6 7-5 4-6 2-6
VeniceClay, June
R16LSteve Krulevitz3-6 6-3 1-6
R32WFernando Luna6-2 6-1
Roland GarrosClay, May
R64LWojtek Fibak4-6 1-6 3-6
R128WPascal Portes3-6 7-6 6-4 7-5
RomeClay, May
R64LBruce Manson6-2 2-6 4-6
FlorenceClay, May
R16LStefan Simonsson7-5 4-6 1-6
R32WMark Vines2-6 6-2 6-0
DusseldorfClay, May
RRLPaul Mcnamee3-6 6-2 2-6
RRWAlejandro Ganzabal6-4 6-7 7-6
RRWThierry Tulasne7-6 6-1
Bari CH, challengerClay, April
R16LZeljko Franulovic2-6 4-6
R32WGianni Marchetti6-4 6-2
Monte CarloClay, April
R16LBjorn Borg2-6 6-3 4-6
R32WPaul Mcnamee1-6 6-2 7-5
MilanCarpet, March
R32LKevin Curren3-6 6-3 1-6
Davis Cup WG R1: ITA vs GBRClay, March
RRLBuster C Mottram7-5 5-7 3-6 4-6
RRWRichard Lewis8-6 6-4 6-2
La QuintaHard, February
R64LJeff Borowiak6-7 4-6

1981

BolognaCarpet, November
R32LJiri Granat2-6 6-4 3-6
Paris IndoorHard, October
R32LRichard Lewis3-6 3-6
BarcelonaClay, October
QFLIvan Lendl3-6 6-3 2-6
R16WCorrado Barazzutti6-4 6-3
R32WRoland Stadler6-1 6-3
R64WGeorges Goven6-3 7-6

Adriano Panatta

Eleven match points down to Kim Warwick in his opening match in Rome in 1976, Adriano Panatta saved them all, then won the title. Three weeks later he claimed his 1 major at Roland Garros, closing out Harold Solomon in a fourth-set tiebreak after beating Bjorn Borg in the quarterfinal. No other man ever beat Borg in Paris; Panatta did it twice, having also stopped him there in 1973. That December he won two singles and the doubles as Italy lifted its first Davis Cup in Santiago, where he talked Paolo Bertolucci into wearing red shirts in Pinochet's Chile.

The son of the caretaker at Rome's Tennis Club Parioli, born in 1950, Panatta learned on the club's clay and never played it conventionally: serve and volley, drop shots, improvisation on the slowest surface. He reached world No. 4 in August 1976 and gathered 11 career titles. After retiring he captained Italy's Davis Cup team, directed the Rome tournament, raced rally cars and speedboats, and runs a tennis club in Treviso.