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Italian tennis icon Nicola Pietrangeli dies aged 92

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Former Italian tennis player Nicola Pietrangeli poses at the ATP Rome Open tennis tournament at Foro Italico in Rome on May 11, 2022. [AFP]

Nicola Pietrangeli, a two-time winner of the French Open, has died at the age of 92, Italy's tennis federation announced yesterday.

"Italian tennis is mourning an icon. Nicola Pietrangeli, the only Italian inducted into the World Tennis Hall of Fame, has died," said the FITP.

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