Federazione Italiana Tennis e Padel (FITP)

The tennis federation in Italy · Italian Tennis and Padel Federation

The FITP is Italy's single national governing body for both tennis and padel (renamed from FIT to reflect this in recent years), and it also runs beach tennis and pickleball. Its site organises clubs ('circoli'), tennis schools and teachers, each searchable and filterable by discipline (tennis, padel, beach tennis, pickleball), alongside a club-affiliation guide. It runs national and regional championships, individual and youth team rankings and a player search, veterans' and wheelchair competitions, live scoring, and Italy's Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup teams; registration (tesseramento) is handled through a dedicated portal.

Getting a licence

A licence is needed to play official tennis competitions in Italy.

Registration ('tesseramento') is done online through a dedicated portal (tesseramento.fitp.it), normally via an affiliated club; price and exact steps were not shown on the pages checked.

The licence page

Competitions and rankings

This federation also governs: Padel, Pickleball.

From the federation’s own website and its international federation, checked in September 2026.

Tennis clubs in Italy → 130 clubs Where to buy a tennis racket in Italy → 11 shops sell tennis equipment in Italy: specialist shops, sports chains and online stores.

The other racket-sport federations in Italy

Padel · FITP Pickleball · FITP Squash · FIGS Badminton · FIBa Table tennis · FITeT

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