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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

ITF J60 Menton: scholars battling it out in a top international tournament where Alessandra Fiorillo triumphs in doubles!
Beautiful experience for the boys in the ITF J60 under 18 tournament held April 19-26 at the Tennis Club de Menton, where Intesa Sanpaolo Assicurazioni Little Tennis Champions program scholar Alessandra Fiorillo authoritatively won the title in the women’s doubles paired with France’s Emma Wiesenfeld. For Fiorillo, this is her third success of the season

Matteo Gribaldo exploit in Croatia: semifinal in the ITF J300 U18 in Vrsar and entry into the top-300!
Matteo Gribaldo continues to make waves on the international youth circuit. The 2008 class from Montecatini, already the Italian Under 16 champion last December, began 2025 with a series of outstanding results that propel him directly into the top 300 of the ITF Under 18 rankings – 213 the new best ranking – thus marking

Under-18 ITF tournaments in Antalya: two doubles finals for Little Tennis Champions!
Young talents from the Intesa Sanpaolo Assicurazioni Little Tennis Champions program, sponsored by the charity I Tennis Foundation, recently took part in the under-18 ITF J100 and J60 tournaments in Antalya, Turkey, held March 10-23 at the Megasaray Tennis Academy. In particular, Matteo Gribaldo from Tuscany, the reigning under-16 Italian champion, distinguished himself by consecutively

I Tennis Foundation and Synergie: a partnership for the future of youth tennis
I Tennis Foundation, a charity committed to supporting young tennis talent, enthusiastically announces the start of its partnership with Synergie Italia, a leading employment agency in the human resources sector, as the Official Sponsor of the Intesa Sanpaolo Assicurazioni Little Tennis Champions scholarship program. The agreement represents an important step forward for the program, which

Former ATP No. 3 and Federer’s last coach Ljubicic: “ With I Tennis Foundation, special bond to help young talent.”
On the occasion of his 46th birthday, Ivan Ljubicic gave an exclusive interview in which between past, present and future he stressed the importance of the work done by I Tennis Foundation, the Italian charity of which he is an honorary member and supervisor. The former world No. 3 and Roger Federer’s last coach, who
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