Taken from the Official ATP Tour website
Extract from ATP Insider – 9 May 2002

TOURNAMENT TALES
IN ROME…Italy’s DAVIDE SANGUINETTI was a guest on the Buona Domenica show on Canale 5 with popular Italian presenter Maurizio Costanzo on Sunday afternoon. At the end of his appearance, Sanguinetti presented Costanzo with a racquet and invited him to play tennis. … MARAT SAFIN fought his way through the crowds to sign autographs at La Gazzetta dello Sport stand, where there were hundreds of fans chanting his name as they waited for him to arrive. … Players practicing at the Due Ponti Club donated items to the Tennis for Africa charity. The ‘Tennis Day Africa’ was organized to raise funds to build schools and hospitals in Sierra Leone, Mozambique and Guinea Bussau. Players taking part included DAVIDE SANGUINETTI, MOSE NAVARRA, MARK PHILIPPOUSSIS, JAMES BLAKE, FEDERICO LUZZI, HICHAM ARAZI, THOMAS JOHANSSON, ALBERT PORTAS, SEBASTIEN GROSJEAN, JUAN CARLOS FERRERO and ALBERT COSTA.

Young Guns Walk in Gladiator’s Footsteps
Roddick, Blake take Italian History 101

On the eve of the Tennis Masters Roma, American stars James Blake and Andy Roddick enjoyed a sightseeing tour of some of Romeís most famous landmarks. Followed by camera crews and photographers, Blake and Roddick visited the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon and went inside the famous Coliseum. Both players were blown away by its magnitude.

“This is the coolest thing Iíve ever seen – itís definitely worth going inside,” said Roddick, with Blake adding: “Iíd seen it in the movie [Gladiator] but to see it in real life is even better.”

Earlier Sunday, top seed Lleyton Hewitt and defending champion Juan Carlos Ferrero traded shots in a special tennis match outside the famous Spanish Steps.