Profile

I was born in Latina on 28-06-1981.
I am 182 cm high and I weight 65 kg.
I live at Cavalese in Trentino.

I began my tennis activities at the age of 5, playing in the tennis court of the family hotel.

My first teacher was Alfredo Sartori (the father of Massimo Sartori, currently the coach of Andreas Seppi, the great hope of Caldaro), who taught me to play during the summer seasons.

Up to the age of 11 I practiced other sports, including cross-country skiing (2nd place in the Trofeo Topolino and 2nd place in the Minimarcialonga), mountain skiing, swimming and cross-country running.

I later chose to play only tennis.
Between the ages of 9 and 11 I began to train at the tennis club of Rovereto with Maestro Graziano Risi.

At the age of 12 I was called to the Centro Tecnico of Latina. I later moved to Verona where I trained for 1 year at the Centro Tecnico Scaligero with Maestro Mariano Vantini.

At the age of 13 I was called back to the Centro Tecnico of Latina where I remained for 2 years, training with Maestri Magnelli e Di Domenico.

In October 1995 to Cavalese and I began to train at the Centro Tecnico of Bolzano with Maestro Manuel Gasbarri, where I remained until March 2002.

In May 2002 I moved to Rome to train with Claudio Pistolesi and the athletics coach Marco Panichi.

I recently moved to the Circolo Villa Aurelia of Roma where I train with Maestro Giampaolo Coppo and also continue to work with my athletics coach Marco Panichi.