Overview
- Organizers confirmed the Internazionali BNL d’Italia will run at Rome’s Foro Italico from April 28 to May 17, with more than 220,000 tickets already sold.
- This year’s site expands to 21 courts across 20 hectares with a new 7,500-seat Grand Stand Arena, and work to roof Centrale is due to start after this edition for first use in 2028.
- FITP bought the ATP 250 event in Brussels to relocate it to northern Italy as the nation’s first professional grass tournament starting in 2028 in the second week of June.
- President Angelo Binaghi said he will pursue a government-backed feasibility study on turning Rome into a “fifth Grand Slam,” framing it as a long-term goal.
- With Italy’s men rising, Jannik Sinner is singled out as the leading hope to end the home drought in Rome’s men’s singles that dates to Adriano Panatta in 1976.