Italy followed up their 2-0 score on Saturday with two more victories on Sunday to beat the United States 4-0 in the Fed Cup final and claim their second Fed Cup title.

On Saturday Italian Flavia Pennetta beat American Alexa Glatch 6-3 6-1, and Francesca Schiavone overcame Melanie Oudin 7-6(2) 6-2. The decisive victory came on Sunday when Pennetta earned an insurmountable 3-0 lead by defeating Oudin 7-5 6-2 in front of home crowd on the clay courts of the Circolo del Tennis Rocco Polimeni.

The doubles rubber was played, and even the world No.1 in doubles Liezel Huber couldn't help the Unites States win at least one match. Huber and Vania King lost to Sara Errani and Roberta Vinci 4-6 6-3 11-9.

Italy had also won Fed Cup title in 2006. (photo via Fed Cup)

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Let’s put Justine Henins’s comeback aside for a moment, and shift our attention to a piece of off-court news.

Italian No.1 Flavia Pennetta hit a runway in Milan to present creations from Pin-Up Stars' Spring/Summer 2010 women's collection.

The world No.10 Flavia certainly deserves more exposure. (via HCFoo's Tennis Blog)

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Flavia Pennetta and Caroline Wozniacki, who seems to be the most popular player for the Sony Ericsson stunts, kick started the Pilot Pen Tennis tournament by playing tennis on a historic American football stadium.

The largest tennis court in the world was laid out inside the Yale Bowl and Wozniacki and Pennetta ran tennis balls down the football field.

"If only all tennis courts were as large as the one at Yale Bowl today, then all of our balls will be sure to go in," said the world No.9 Wozniacki after the extraordinary match.

This is the third stunt created by Sony Ericsson this summer. Last week Ana Ivanovic and Caroline Wozniacki stopped traffic to play in one Toronto street, while Kim Clijsters and Elena Dementieva played in the middle of a fountain. (source: Sony Ericsson WTA Tour)

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World No.1 Dinara Safina of Russia ended Flavia Pennetta’s 15-match winning streak in just 56 minutes, defeating the Italian 6-2 6-0 in the semifinals of the Western & Southern Financial Group Women’s Open.

Pennetta, who will on Monday become the first Italian Top 10 women's tennis player, looked a little bit worn-out playing against Safina who was on fire, hitting winner after winner. Safina retained her perfect record against Pennetta, having won all their seven meetings.

In her eighth final of the 2009 season Safina will face the winner of the semifinal between fourth seed Elena Dementieva and fifth seed Jelena Jankovic. (photo: Life.com)

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Flavia Pennetta will enter the Top 10 for the first time when the new Sony Ericsson WTA Tour rankings are released on Monday, and will become the first Italian tennis player to achieve the feat.

The 27-year-old Pennetta is expecting a "crazy" reaction in her native Italy when she returns home next month.

"It's a dream come true," said Pennetta, currently ranked 12th, while her career-high has been No.11 so far. "I always hoped to be one of the best players in the world and now I'm there so it's crazy."

"I have only spoken with my mum so far. I've already received I don't know how many SMS's so I think it's going to be crazy," Pennetta added.

Pennetta is now on a 15-match winning streak, having won back-to-back tournaments in Palermo and Los Angeles and then having reached the semifinals in Cincinnati (where she'll face top-ranked Dinara Safina). (source: Reuters, photo: Ralf Reinecke)

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