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Corrado Barazzutti (born 19 February 1953, in Udine) is an Italian former tennis player.
Barazzutti gained fame in 1971 by winning the Orange Bowl. The previous year he had been called to the Italy Davis Cup team, for which he would play a total of 44 matches. In 1976 he played for the only victorious Italian Davis Cup team.
In Grand Slam tournaments, his best results are the semi-finals he reached in 1977 at the US Open and in 1978 at the French Open; in both occasions he was beaten in straight sets, by Jimmy Connors and Björn Borg respectively. His best ranking was world number 7 in 1978. He won five career ATP tournaments.
Barazzutti is currently non-playing captain of the Italy Davis Cup team and the Italy Fed Cup team. Since Corrado Barazzutti is captain, the Fed Cup team of Italy won three times 2006, 2009 and 2010 this trophy.
External links
- Corrado Barazzutti at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Corrado Barazzutti at the Davis Cup
- (Italian) Officina del Tennis by Corrado Barazzutti
French Open boys' singles champions 1968 Phil Dent · 1969 Antonio Muñoz · 1970 Juan Herrera · 1971 Corrado Barazzutti · 1972 Buster Mottram · 1973 Víctor Pecci · 1974 Christophe Casa · 1975 Christophe Roger-Vasselin · 1976 Heinz Günthardt · 1977 John McEnroe · 1978 Ivan Lendl · 1979 Ramesh Krishnan · 1980 Henri Leconte · 1981 Mats Wilander · 1982 Tarik Benhabiles · 1983 Stefan Edberg · 1984 Kent Carlsson · 1985 Jaime Yzaga · 1986 Guillermo Pérez-Roldán · 1987 Guillermo Pérez-Roldán · 1988 Nicolás Pereira · 1989 Fabrice Santoro · 1990 Andrea Gaudenzi · 1991 Andriy Medvedev · 1992 Andrei Pavel · 1993 Roberto Carretero · 1994 Jacobo Díaz · 1995 Mariano Zabaleta · 1996 Alberto Martín · 1997 Daniel Elsner · 1998 Fernando González · 1999 Guillermo Coria · 2000 Paul-Henri Mathieu · 2001 Carlos Cuadrado · 2002 Richard Gasquet · 2003 Stanislas Wawrinka · 2004 Gaël Monfils · 2005 Marin Čilić · 2006 Martin Kližan · 2007 Vladimir Ignatic · 2008 Yang Tsung-hua · 2009 Daniel Berta · 2010 Agustín Velotti · 2011 Bjorn Fratangelo
Categories:- 1953 births
- Living people
- French Open junior champions
- Italian male tennis players
- People from Udine
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