President: Angelo Binaghi
Secretary: Massimo Verdina
Indirizzo:Stadio Olimpico - Curva Nord, 00135 Roma RM, Italia
TEL:06 98372205
Url:www.fitp.it
Email:segreteria@fitp.it
History of FITP
Costitution
The first Italian club, the Bordighera Lawn Tennis Club, was founded by some English residents in 1878. The first entirely Italian association was founded in Turin in 1880. The first organisation was established in Rome, on 16 April 1894, with the name of the Italian Lawn Tennis Federation. It dissolved a few years later (1898). The organisation was re-established in Florence, on 16 May 1910, with the same name. The Italian team took part at the Davis Cup for the first time in 1922. In 1930 the first Italian Internationals were played in Milan. In 1933 the word "lawn" was removed and the name was changed to the Italian Tennis Federation (FIT), which still remains now. The Federation is listed in Law no. 426 of 16/02/1946.
The sixtieth National Assembly of Federtennis, meeting in Florence on October 16, 2022, decided to change the name: from January 1, 2023, Fit became the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation (FITP).
Denomination
From 1895 to 1933, Federazione Italiana Lawn Tennis (FILT or “Italian Federation of Lawn Tennis”), later Federazione Italiana Tennis (FIT or “Italian Tennis Federation”). From 2023 Italian Tennis and Padel Federation (FITP).
Federal Office
From 1895 to 1899 in Rome, Florence in 1910, from 1913 to 1928 in Genoa, from 1929 to 1943 in Rome, from 1946 to 1956 in Milan and in Rome since 1956.
First National Championships
1895 (Men), 1913 (women).
First appearance at the Olympic Games
1920 Anversa.
Presidents
1910 Marchese Piero Antinori
1913 - 1927 Beppe Croce
1928 Hon. Augusto Turati
1929 - 1938 Alessandro Lessona
1939 Attilio Fontan
1940 - 1941 Erberto Vasellia
1943 Giorgio de' Stefani (regent)
1944 Riccardo Sabbadini (regent CONI)
1949 - 1956 Aldo Tolusso
1958 - 1969 Giorgio de' Stefani
1969 - 1973 Luigi Orsini
1973 - 1976 Giorgio Neri
1976 - 1988 Paolo Galgani
1988 - 1989 Mario Pescante (commissioner)
1989 - 1998 Paolo Galgani
1998 - 2000 Francesco Ricci Bitti
2000 - 2000 Gianguido Sacchi Morsiani (commissioner)
2000 - 2000 Luigi Tronchetti Provera (commissioner)
2000 - Angelo Binaghi
Secretaries
1920 - 1927 Mario Codebò
1927 - 1930 Gaspare Cataldo
1931 - 1936 Luigi Orsini
1936 - 1943 Enrico Piccardo
1944 Gino Mario Cini
1945 Enrico Piccardo (acting)
1948 - 1957 Enrico Piccardo
1958 - 1973 Franco De Crais
1973 - 1977 Gianfranco Cameli
1978 - 1997 Giuliano Annibali
1997 - 1999 Claudio Santini
1999 - 2000 Gianfranco Carabelli
2000 - 2002 Mario Orienti
2002 - 2003 Enrica Cersini
2003 - 2005 Felicetta Rossitto
2006 - Massimo Verdina