Internazionali BNL d'Italia 2026, where to watch and live stream

The Internazionali BNL d'Italia runs in Rome, Italy from 6–17 May, played on slow red clay. Bounces sit higher than on any other tour surface and rallies run longer, which suits heavy topspin and punishes flat hitters. It is a Masters 1000 / WTA 1000, the tier directly below the Slams and mandatory for the world top thirty outside of injury. The singles champion takes 1,000 ranking points, plus a prize pool that sits second only to the Slams.

First held in 1930, played at Foro Italico, Rome. The 2026 edition has wrapped. The full results sit below; the recap and the 2027 dates are above.

Carlos Alcaraz defends the men's title · Jasmine Paolini defends the women's title.

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The Foro Italico sits in a bowl below Monte Mario in northern Rome, ringed by stone pines whose long shadows fall across the back court of the Pietrangeli through the late afternoon. Elevation is low, humidity climbs through the day, and the clay holds water longer than in Madrid: by the second set of a 4pm match the ball is heavier, the bounce is sitting up at shoulder height, and the courts are playing measurably slower than they did at noon. Rome’s spring weather pattern is unusual for a clay 1000, with short violent thunderstorms rolling in off the Lazio hills and clearing again inside an hour, which is why scheduling here is more disrupted than at any other Masters.

The combined ATP and WTA tournament is best-of-three for the men, the second mandatory 1000 of the swing, and the last serious tune-up before Roland Garros. Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz played out the 2025 men’s final on a humid Sunday evening, with Alcaraz winning in three. Jasmine Paolini takes the women’s title back as defending champion. The surface rewards the heavy topspin baseliner more than any other clay event on the calendar: the slower courts plus the higher bounce mean that flat first-strike tennis simply does not work past the third round, while the player who can stay in the rally an extra shot is usually still upright on Sunday.