2015 US Open Women's Singles Final - Italy's Flavia Pennetta Defeats Roberta Vinci to win title Saturday Sep 12,2015

 

The two Italian women, Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci, both beyond 30 and supposedly beyond their primes, had defied all prognostications and advanced to the final of the US Open, making it the first all-Italian women’s title match in Grand Slam history.

The occasional Italian flag, il Tricolore, was spotted along the grounds of the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. A pair of fans wore matching green, white and red T-shirts that boasted: ITALY WINS! FLAVIA PENNETTA, ROBERTA VINCI, US OPEN 2015

Italy rules at the U.S. Open tennis championships on Saturday when childhood friends and Fed Cup team mates Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci play for the women's title in the last grand slam of the year 2015

Born about 70 kilometers (43 miles) apart in southern Italy -- Vinci in Taranto and Pennetta in Brindisi -- they have battled close to even head-to-head, with the 33-year-old Pennetta holding a 5-4 edge, including a U.S. quarter-final win in 2013 

Flavia Pennetta claimed a first grand slam singles title with a 7-6(4) 6-2 win over Roberta Vinci in an improbable all-Italian U.S. Open final on Saturday to cap an extraordinary fortnight packed with upsets.

 

Flavia Pennetta(33)becomes the fourth oldest grand slam winner in the Open Era and joins 2010 French Open champion Francesca Schiavone as the only Italian women to win a major title 

Flavia Pennetta's path to the final included two huge hurdles which she cleared with confidence in taking down Czech fifth seed Petra Kvitova in the QF's and Romanian second seed Simona Halep in the SF's