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(About the 1976 Rome Internationals) I didn't dedicate that victory to my father, my mother, my wife, or my son. I dedicated it to myself, and that's it!

— Adriano Panatta

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Source: Quoted in Pietro Farro, ‘'Il tennis è un grattacielo: storie in punta di racchetta’' (Tennis is a skyscraper: stories at the tip of the racket), Effepi Libri, 2005, p. 85. ISBN 88-6002-001-8.
Source quality: Secondhand citation Quoted from another book or article rather than from the original.

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