Mumbai, April 18 -- Tennis loves its breakthrough faces rising to overnight stardom, but here's a tale of perseverance through persistent grind and career, nay, life-challenging obstacles. Tennis loves narratives of two poster boys sharing a private jet to fly into an event, but here's a tale of a journeyman who once hopped in a rental car and drove over 1,000km to make it to a Grand Slam as a late replacement. Tennis loves Alcaraz and Sinner, but here's a tale of Marco Trungelliti that is just as extraordinary. At 36, after spending half his career as one of thousands of pros slugging it out in the unrelenting lower rungs, Trungelliti became the oldest debutant in ATP's top 100 rankings in the Open Era. He achieved this after featuring in ...