Giuseppe "Beppe" Merlo (11 October 1927 – 17 July 2019) was an Italian tennis player.
Merlo reached the semifinals of
French Championships in
1955
Events January
* January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama.
* January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut.
* January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...
(losing to
Sven Davidson) and
1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim ...
(losing to
Lew Hoad). In the final of
Rome in 1955, Merlo led 2 sets to 1 and had 2 match points against
Fausto Gardini, but minutes later had to retire with cramps. Merlo lost in the Italian Open final again in 1957 (to
Nicola Pietrangeli).
His other career highlights include winning the
Reggio Calabria International
The Reggio Calabria International or Internazionale di Reggio Calabria was a men's and women's international clay court tennis tournament founded in 1959. It was played at the ASD "Rocco Polimeni" Tennis Club, Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy. Th ...
tournament four times (1959–60, 1963, 1967)
He retired from competitive tennis in 1969 when he was 41 years old. He was 91 at the time of his death in July 2019.
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1927 births
2019 deaths
Sportspeople from Merano
Italian male tennis players
20th-century Italian people
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