"But if it is truly impossible to avoid making a choice or a ranking, then I would suggest abolishing all discussion about the number of wins, Slams, or the length of this or that tennis “reign,” and instead opening a folder and putting in it all the names of the innovators, those tennis players who were inevitably champions and who pushed tennis toward the future. They are the builders of our sport, and when discussing history or supremacy, we need to refer to them in order to better understand what came before and what came after. (p. 5)"
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Adriano Panatta
Adriano Panatta (born 1950) is a retired Italian professional tennis player. He won the French Open in 1976, becoming the first Italian man in the Open Era to win a major singles title. Panatta was also the only player ever to defeat Björn Borg at Roland Garros, doing so twice.
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