lorenzo sonego

Lorenzo Sonego is an Italian tennis pro who has won two ATP Tour titles as well as several ATP Challenger and ITF Futures titles. Since debuting in the ATP World Rankings in 2014, he has risen up the pecking order every year and is now established as a Top 40 player. On the way there, as well as winning titles, he has reached the fourth rounds of Wimbledon and the French Open and beaten world-number-one Novak Djokovic.

Sonego was born in Turin, Italy, in 1995. A talented tennis player and footballer as a child, he got as far as playing for Serie A side Torino’s youth academy but ultimately decided to pursue a career in tennis. He turned professional in 2013 and made his ATP Tour debut three years later. Just over a year later, he won his first ATP Challenger title. In 2019, he hit a new high when he reached the quarter-final of the Monte Carlo Masters, having been knocked out in the first qualifying round the previous year. That performance, among others, helped him leap into the ATP Top 100 for the first time.

2020 proved a significant year for Sonego as he reached the fourth round of the French Open for the first time. In his third-round match against Taylor Fritz, the pair achieved the longest tie-break in the tournament’s history, which Sonego ultimately won. Later that year, he entered the 2020 Erste Bank Open as a lucky loser and came up against Novak Djokovic and proceeded to beat him in straight sets.