The harsh accusation against the Italian tennis player Camila Giorgi, daughter of an Argentine ex-combatant from Malvinas

Tennis is going through its last days of rest. Very soon, starting this Thursday, it will resume official activity with the inaugural performance of the United Cup, which will be held in three cities in Australia, in Sydney, Brisbane and Perth from December 29 to January 8. But meanwhile, this sport is shocked by the news that the Italian Camila Giorgi was accused of falsifying vaccination certificates against coronavirusafter investigation.

The last name of the tennis player No. 67 in the world ranking, 30 years old and daughter of an Argentine, veteran of the Falklands Warappears on a list of clients of a doctor who provided false documents that allowed the bearer to travel to countries that required vaccines, without being inoculated against Covid, according to the Italian newspaper Vicenza newspaper.

The investigation that the Vicenza City Prosecutor’s Office has been carrying out for months already led to the arrest of three people, in February. Those detained for the crime of ideological fraud, as a result of alleged irregularities in the procedure for obtaining the “Green Pass”the immunization passport, were the doctors Daniela Grillone Tecioiu y Erich Volker Goepel, y Andrew Giacoppopartner of Volker Goepel.

All three were released pending trial as they were deemed not to be a flight risk. In recent days, a list of the beneficiaries of these manipulated passports has been made public, including Giorgi and the singer Madame (Francesca Calearo, 20 years old). The ANSA agency assured that the player was never a patient of the suspected doctors, the hypothesis that the researchers are handling is that she went to these professionals to obtain the certificate without being immunized.

Giorgi, winner of three titles WTA (‘s-Hertogenbosch 2015, Linz 2018 and the WTA 1000 in Montreal 2021) and who came to occupy the 26th step of the ranking in October 2018, played several tournaments in this 2022 that he would have missed if, as suspected, he did not I was vaccinated against Covid. The Italian started the season at the Australian Openwhere he reached the third round and said goodbye to the local Ashleigh Bartyat that time number one in the world and later winner of the title.

At that time, the oceanic country required its foreign visitors to present their vaccination certificate and their own Novak Djokovic, champion in 2021, could not play the tournament because he was not inoculated (he was deported after days of great tension and after the visa with which he had entered Melbourne was revoked). Already in the second half of the year, Giorgi appeared in several competitions in the United States, another country that required the “health passport” and that also denied Djokovic entry.

The player born in Macerata played in Saint Joseph, California, in early August (lost in debut). After the WTA 1000 in Toronto (she reached the round of 16), she was present at the WTA 1000 of Cincinnati (lost in the first round) and closed his season in the US Open (said goodbye in the second wheel). For all these appointments he had to present a vaccination certificate which, according to the Vicenza investigation, it would be false. The investigation documents were also presented to the authorities of the Italian Tennis Federationso that they can take the measures they deem appropriate.

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