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Kids and Team at Forte Village Resort: an incredible week of growth with Damiano Fiorucci and Top Players from the ITF 25K tournaments!
An experience of great sporting and human value has just come to an end for the I Tennis Foundation scholars, who spent an intense week of training and learning at the prestigious Forte Village Resort in Santa Margherita di Pula. An incredible location that hosted a new chapter of the Little Tennis Champions 2025–26 project,

A summer of growth, International Tennis Europe tournaments, and first achievements for the New Little Tennis Champions!
The summer of 2025 marked an extraordinary chapter for the 12 scholarship holders of the Little Tennis Champions program — young talents from Italy, Kosovo, Albania, and Montenegro! After an intensive week in Turin with top coaches Tartarini, Arbino, and Massari, the scholars started an international tour across France, Switzerland, Spain, and Albania, accompanied by

Alongside top coaches Tartarini and Arbino, the 12 new Little Tennis Champions from Italy, Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro were presented in Turin!
We have just experienced a special moment at the Circolo della Stampa Sporting in Turin, where the official presentation of the new edition of the Little Tennis Champions 2025–2026 program, promoted by the I Tennis Foundation, took place. In the presence of top coaches, partners, and institutions, the 12 young scholarship recipients were presented—six girls

Little Tennis Champions 2025–2026 for Italy, Albania, Kosovo & Montenegro: the 12 scholarship winners have been announced!
After intense days of selection on the field at three prestigious venues—the ITC-ILO United Nations Campus in Turin for Italy, the National Sport Park in Tirana for Albania and Kosovo, and the Tennis Club in Nikšić for Montenegro – the technical committee and board of directors of the I Tennis Foundation are pleased to announce

The second phase of selection for on-court trials in the four countries is underway! The names of those admitted
As mentioned in the previous news item, there was a high level of participation in the LTC 2025-26 for Italy, Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo selection process, with hundreds of young people from the four countries involved registering for the competition. We would like to thank all the families who took part, giving their children the

Many thanks to all candidates for participating in the LTC selection process and best of luck with your academic and tennis careers!
Just under a month after the launch of the call for applications, the first selection phase for the Little Tennis Champions 2025–26 programme for Italy, Albania, Kosovo, and Montenegro, the new edition of the I Tennis Foundation’s charitable scholarship programme, has officially come to an end. We would like to express our heartfelt thanks for

We are starting again with new recruits born in 2011 and 2012 from Italy, Albania, Montenegro, and Kosovo!
Turin, 6 June 2025 – Applications are now officially open for Little Tennis Champions 2025-2026 for Italy, Albania, Kosovo and Montenegro, the new charity scholarship programme promoted by I Tennis Foundation in collaboration with its partners for 12 new children born in 2011 and 2012. Beneficiaries will be selected based on their tennis potential and

Yokohama Europe is the new Main Partner of I Tennis Foundation and the Little Tennis Champions program
I Tennis Foundation proudly announces the beginning of its partnership with Yokohama Europe, which joins the Little Tennis Champions project as a Main Partner, strengthening the social impact and international flair of the initiative. Little Tennis Champions is a scholarship program that combines solidarity and education with an exclusively humanitarian goal: to offer young tennis

Concluded the third edition of the “Little Tennis Champions” program: many young talents supported thanks to Intesa Sanpaolo Assicurazioni and other project sponsors
With the end of the 2024-2025 season, the third edition of “Intesa Sanpaolo Assicurazioni Little Tennis Champions,” the tennis improvement scholarship program promoted by the charity I Tennis Foundation and designed to support promising young Italian tennis players from less affluent backgrounds through special training sessions, participation in international tournaments, and educational activities complementary to

I Tennis Foundation featured at 54th AIDP National Congress and talk-event with Boris Becker
On May 15, 16, and 17, 2025, I Tennis Foundation had the opportunity to participate in the 54th AIDP National Congress-promoted by AIDP-the Italian Association for Personnel Management-by taking part in both the central event and the Out-of-Congress activities, which featured outstanding guests. On Wednesday, May 15, within the talk “How to manage error: either

Special week in Rome for I Tennis Foundation scholars with Berrettini, Rybakina, Putintseva, Arbino and Massari!
The trip to Rome for the graduation ceremony on the occasion of I Tennis Foundation’s Charity Night 2025, for the fellows of the Intesa Sanpaolo Assicurazioni Little Tennis Champions program was filled with many other unforgettable experiences that enriched their sporting and training journey. From May 6 to 8, between Circolo Canottieri Aniene and Due

A night of stars and dreams with Simone Tartarini, Lucia Bronzetti, Flavio Cobolli, Mattia Bellucci and the talents of I Tennis Foundation
Rome, May 8, 2025 – A magical evening to celebrate a special project. At the Circolo Canottieri Aniene in Rome was staged, on the eve of the Masters 1000 on the red course of the Foro Italico, the award ceremony of Intesa Sanpaolo Assicurazioni Little Tennis Champions, the project created by I Tennis Foundation and
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Turin internship for our talents with Ivan Ljubicic and Gipo Arbino
The excitement was palpable under the Mole, where I Tennis Foundation scholars reunited on the

Interview with Ivan Ljubicic: “Happy to support I Tennis Campus: it’s my story”
An amazing career and a life made for movie screens of a figure whose intelligence

The extraordinary story of Lorenzo Sonego and Gipo Arbino on our social media
More than two ambassadors, they are two friends. Lorenzo Sonego and Gipo Arbino have embraced

The growth of young talent according to Ivan Ljubicic, Emilio Sanchez, Corrado Barazzutti and Gipo Arbino
The champions and coaches who support the non-profit academy I Tennis Campus talk about the

Interview with Rosario Rasizza, CEO of Openjobmetis, main sponsor of I Tennis Campus
When he began his professional adventure Pete Sampras sat on top of the world, something

The tale of Neila’s dreams and ambitions from Mostar
She is 13 years old, lives in Mostar, Bosnia Erzegovina, and has a boundless passion
