Corrado Borroni (born 6 May 1973) is a former professional
tennis
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player from Italy.
Biography
Borroni, who comes from
Milan
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, began playing tennis at the age of five and turned professional in 1991.
A right-handed player, Borroni is most noted for his performance on debut at the
1995 Italian Open (Rome Masters), where he made the third round as a qualifier. In the opening round he upset world number nine
Yevgeny Kafelnikov
Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Kafelnikov ( rus, Евгений Александрович Кафельников, , jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj ˈkafʲɪlʲnʲɪkəf, a=Ru-Yevgeny-Kafelnikov.ogg; born 18 February 1974) is a Russian former world No. 1 tennis p ...
, who was ranked over 400 places ahead of him. He then beat
Roberto Carretero
Roberto Carretero Díaz (born 30 August 1975) is a Spanish former professional tennis player. He won one singles title, the 1996 Hamburg AMS.
Tennis career
Carretero, a former junior French Open Champion, shocked the tennis world by winning t ...
in the second round, before his run was ended by
Stefan Edberg
Stefan Bengt Edberg (; born 19 January 1966) is a Swedish former professional tennis player. A major proponent of the serve-and-volley style of tennis, he won six Grand Slam singles titles and three Grand Slam men's doubles titles between 1985 ...
. When he made it through qualifying at the same tournament in 1996, he again came up against Kafelnikov in the first round and was beaten in three sets.
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1973 births
Living people
Italian male tennis players
Tennis players from Milan