The new US Open champion’s retirement,after her victory over Roberta Vinci, completed a anecdote which could bear been written in HollywoodFlavia Pennetta, and having spent much of her tennis career just off Main Street,will finish it in the games slowly rising powerhouse, China, or as the reigning and retiring US Open champion.
It promises to be a curiously low-key exit after the drama of the finest hour-and-a-half of a career that properly began at the age of 17 when she won the French Open girls doubles with her close friend Roberta Vinci in 1999 and rose to a glorious peak here on Saturday,when she beat the rain by four minutes and her compatriot by 7-6 (7-4), 6-2 in the first all-Italian grand slam final.
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Source: theguardian.com