NY Times · Sep 13, 2015
'Build a Mount Rushmore' for Pennetta and Vinci
ROME — Italy should build a Mount Rushmore-like monument for U.S. Open finalists Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci.
That was the suggestion Sunday from the Gazzetta dello Sport, Italy's leading sports newspaper.
Under a front-page headline of "We're the champions," a Gazzetta editorial described Pennetta and Vinci as "the little but great tennis players for whom the world now envies us."
Pennetta's victory over Vinci in the first all-Italian Grand Slam final Saturday continued to top the headlines in Italy.
A member of the regional government in Puglia, the southern region where both players come from, suggested that they be named world ambassadors for Puglia.