Protagonists

There are a lot of players who swang their racquets at the Lemon Bowl Babolat and became later professional players of the most important international circuits: the worlds ex number 1  Jelena Jankovic won the Lemon Bowl in 1997, Nastia Miskina in 1994, Ivan Ljubicic and Mario Ancic in 1995 when Igor Andreev and Dimitry Tursunov participated as well. The star Anna Kournikova enlightened the Lemon Bowl 1992 when she won only 9 years old the cup for the competition 12& under, Yanko Tipsarevic and Emanuelle Gagliardi complete the panorama of the foreign top players.
Of course also Italian champions are among the players who competed on the courts of the Lemon Bowl: Federico Luzzi (1992), Katia Piccolini (1986), Gloria Pizzichini (1989) and a lot others (Mara Santangelo, Uros Vico, Stefano Galvani, Vincenzo Santopadre). Even if not all of them  won the cup they began their tennis career with the Lemon Bowl.

Young talents

Amongst the players of the last editions there are promising Italian boys and girls who already have started an international career and we are looking forward to  see them climbing the international rankings. At the moment the player who seems to be only at a step from the world’s elite is Camilla Giorgi (her best ranking is 31). She came out at the Lemon Bowl 2001. Gianluigi Quinzi (2006), Martina Zerulo (2008) and the little Samuele Ramazzotti (2009) won the Lemon Cup. Borna Coric lost the final u10 nel 2006 against Quinzi. Ana Konjuh triumphed at the 12&under and Anatassia Grymalska (2005) at the 16&Under.

Clubs

The tournament was born at the Pisana Tennis Club where the participants played every year from 1995 to 2004. Since 2005 the event is taking place in 4 Roman clubs in the quarter Acilia-Casal Palocco:

The New Penta 2000, main club of the tournament, with 12 clay outdoor  courts and 3 synthetic grass indoor courts;

The Eschilo1 with 6 clay outdoor, 3 hard outdoor;

The Eschilo 2 with  4 clay outdoor  courts, 3 hard outdoor courts and 2 hard indoor courts;

The Polisportiva Palocco with 4 clay outdoor  courts, 2 hard outdoor courts and 2 hard indoor courts
The Sporting Club Infernetto with 3 clay outdoor courts.

Altogether there are 34 outdoor and 7 indoor courts.

Media

Every year the Roman press follows  the tournament as well as the specialized press. In the section “press coverage”, you can find all articles, which appear and appeared in the newspapers and in the web. There is also a daily space with all the news of the tournament  on the portal of the Italian Tennis Federation. Supertennis, the television channel of the Italian Federation, reports daily on the manifestation in the news and at the end of the tournament they show with several repetitions a coverage with all results.