Amedeo Vittorio Tessitori (born 7 October 1994) is an Italian professional

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player for

Reyer Venezia S.S.P. Reyer Venezia Mestre, commonly known as Reyer Venezia or simply Reyer, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Venice, Veneto. The club currently plays in the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the highest tier of basketball in ...

of the Italian

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(LBA) and the Italian National Basketball.

Professional career

Tessitori was raised in the youth team of Virtus

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Basket, where he made his first team debut in the 2010–11 season playing in the Serie A Dilettanti. In March 2011, he was nominated MVP of the 2010-11 LNP Italian Cup, won by Virtus Siena. In the 2011–12 season, he averaged 13.5 points, 7.6 rebounds and 0.6 assist. On 17 September 2012, he was signed by

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, but he was loaned to Fulgor Libertas Forlì for the 2012–13 season, where averaged 7.7 points, 4.9 rebounds and 0.3 assist. Tessitori played for Sassari in the 2013–14 season, scoring 4.3 points, with 2 rebounds and 0.3 assists. In the 2014–15 season, Tessitori was signed by

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, where he averaged 3.0 points and 2.1 rebounds. While in the 2015–16 season, he moved to

Pallacanestro Cantù Pallacanestro Cantù, known for sponsorship reasons as Acqua S.Bernardo Cantù, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Cantù, Lombardy. On the European-wide club competition scene, Cantù is second to Real Madrid – again ...

, where he scored 2.2 points, 1 rebound and 0.2 assist. In the 2016–17 season, played for

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, in Serie A2, where he averaged 11.9 points, 5.9 rebounds and 0.7 assist, becoming one of the most prominent centers of the league. In the following, he even improved his averages, being able to score 14.7 points per games; he also collected 6.8 rebounds and 0.9 assist. In the 2018–19 season, he moved Universo Treviso Basket, with which he was promoted in

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, scoring 12.3 points and collecting 5.3 rebounds, with 1.1 assist. After an excellent 2019–20 season in the Italian Serie A, Tessitori signed a contract with

Virtus Bologna Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna, known for sponsorship reasons as Virtus Segafredo Bologna, is an Italian professional basketball club based in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna. The club was founded in 1929, which makes it the oldest club in Italy and one ...

on June 5, 2020. After having knocked out 3–0 both

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in the quarterfinals and

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in the semifinals, on 11 June 2021 Virtus defeated 4–0 its historic rival Olimpia Milano in the national finals, winning its 16th national title and the first one after twenty years. On 21 September, the team won its second Supercup, defeating Olimpia Milano 90–84. Moreover, after having ousted Lietkabelis,

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and

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in the first three rounds of the

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, on 11 May 2022, Virtus defeated Frutti Extra Bursaspor by 80–67 at the Segafredo Arena, winning its first EuroCup and qualifying for the EuroLeague after 14 years. However, despite having ended the regular season at the first place and having ousted 3–0 both Pesaro and

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in the first two rounds of playoffs, Virtus was defeated 4–2 in the national finals by Olimpia Milan. On 7 July 2022 he signed with

Reyer Venezia Mestre S.S.P. Reyer Venezia Mestre, commonly known as Reyer Venezia or simply Reyer, is an Italian professional basketball club that is based in Venice, Veneto. The club currently plays in the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), the highest tier of basketball in ...

of the Italian

(LBA).

National Team career

Junior Team

Tessitori played in the 2012 FIBA Europe Under-18 Championship, where he averaged 15.3 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.1 assists.

Senior Team

Tessitori represented the

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at the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup in China, where he averaged 6.4 points, 2.4 rebounds and 0.6 assists.

References

External links

Eurobasket.com profile

RealGM profile
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