Thathappenedin 1978, when the ITFbannedtheunconventional “spaghetti stringing” used thepreviousyear by Romania's Ilie Nastase to double the amount oftopspinonhis groundstrokes.
In 2011, it launched a global "Why I Love Romania" poster campaign, trumpeting the achievements of famous Romanians such as tennis player Ilie Nastase, gymnast Nadia Comanenci and scientist Nicolae Paulescu, who discovered insulin.