Raffaella Reggi
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Raffaella Reggi is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

) is a former professional tennis
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 player from Italy, known for her fiery on-court personality, expressiveness and gesticulations.

Reggi won the mixed doubles title at the US Open
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The US Open, formally the United States Open Tennis Championships, is a hardcourt tennis tournament which is the modern iteration of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, the U.S. National Championship, which for men's singles was first contested in 1881...

 in 1986, partnering Sergio Casal
Sergio Casal
Sergio Casal Martínez is a former professional tennis player from Spain. During his career, he won three Grand Slam doubles titles, as well as the men's doubles Silver Medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics....

. She was a singles quarter-finalist at the French Open in 1987, and reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 13 in 1988. One of the highlights of her career was winning the Italian Open
Rome Masters
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 in 1985.

In 1985 she became the first Italian woman to win the Rome Masters
Rome Masters
The Italian Open is an annual tennis tournament held in Rome, Italy. It is the most prestigious red clay tennis tournament in the world after the French Open, with the men's competition being an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event on the Association of Tennis Professionals tour, and the women's...

 since Annelies Ullstein-Bossi won in 1950. The two remain the only Italian women to reach the singles final of Italy's top tennis tournament since World War II
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Mixed doubles: 1 (1 title)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents Score
Winner 1986 US Open Hard   Sergio Casal
Sergio Casal
Sergio Casal Martínez is a former professional tennis player from Spain. During his career, he won three Grand Slam doubles titles, as well as the men's doubles Silver Medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics....

  Martina Navrátilová
  Peter Fleming
6–4, 6–4
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