ATP Roma, Sinner and Musetti cancel a wait of 41 years: the precedents of the Italian couples to the quarters

The victories of Jannik Sinner and Lorenzo Musetti respectively against Francisco Cerundolo and Daniil Medvedev were worth not only access to the quarterfinals of the Internationals of Rome, but also a place in the history of Italian tennis. In fact it was since 1984 that two Italians did not arrive both until this turn of the scoreboard in the tournament of the Capital, 41 years of waiting and only the fifth time in the Open era. But what had b…