Camila Giorgi She last played tennis at the Miami Masters 1000, a few weeks ago, where she was eliminated at the hands of the number 1 of the WTA Iga Swiatek. The 32-year-old Italian tennis player, daughter of a former Malvinas combatant and with a strong connection to Argentina, did not appear publicly again and since this Monday she appeared among the inactive players according to the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA). The curious thing is that this “frees” her from any type of investigation by the ITIA, which ensures ethics, anti-corruption and transparency among professional tennis players. Hence, some theories.
Giorgi reached the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 2018. (@camila_giorgi_official)
According to Italian media, since WTA have wanted to contact Giorgi after the surprising decision was known and they could not find her or her relatives. The newspaper Corriere della Sera wrote: “Amazed, the WTA He looked for her to ask her for a comment, finding disconnected phones (his, his father’s, his brothers Leandro and Amadeus’s), a vague and cryptic message (Camila will not reveal anything about herself until Roland Garros, perhaps) and the echo of an indiscretion that would have rushed her abroad due to problems in Italy.” The theory that has become relevant has to do with the following: the Vicenza Prosecutor’s Office is carrying out an investigation into the tennis player because they suspect that she has falsified vaccination documents against COVID-19 in order to play in tournaments. Although she said she was “calm” and had been vaccinated, her enigmatic silence does not seem to clarify things any further.
At the same time, it has been a long time since Giorgi She has been demonstrating particular behavior on social media for an elite tennis player. The Italian, who won 4 titles WTA and was 26th in the world in 2018, he has not uploaded a photo related to tennis since January 2023. And in the last sixteen months he has only shown on his Instagram profile, where he has 730 thousand followers, the clothing of his new clothing brand called “Gomila”. He emerged as a promising talent and reached the last 16 of Wimbledon at age 21, but in later years he failed to explode as expected. Although there are few certainties about it and he is surrounded by mystery, his farewell to tennis seems imminent. Did he run away because he had something to hide? We will have to wait to know.
A link with Argentina and the Falkland Islands
Sergio Giorgi was born in La Plata and when he was 19 years old, while he was going to eat a barbecue with his family, he found out that he had to fight for his Argentina against England in the Falkland Islands War. “I thought I was going on vacation, to see a new place. ‘Nothing is going to happen,’ we said. And then it happened,” he explained a few years ago about that experience. Once the war ended, he began to study, got a scholarship, settled in Italy and raised his family there.
The last photo of the player on Instagram. (Photo: @camila_giorgi_official)
He had four children: Antonela, Leandro, Camila and Amadeus. The eldest died in a traffic accident, in a deeper pain than what Sergio had experienced in 1982: “Worse things happened to me, like the death of my eldest daughter (Antonela, in a traffic accident in Paris). The war became nothing next to the latter. You can’t stay blocked by what happened 30 years ago. Life goes on. Once the conflict was over, in ’82, everything was over,” he reflected some time ago. In addition to being a father, Sergio Giorgi served as a coach for his daughter Camila since she was a teenager. He has a strong personality and the women’s circuit has never been able to avoid his presence. With an “anti-system” outlook, he has always fought for justice and equity in a sport that he considers only benefits “the top 20.”
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With his father Sergio, former Malvinas combatant. (Photo: @camila_giorgi_official)
Camila grew up speaking Spanish with her parents, but Italian with her siblings. Her mother designed the clothes with which she competed in the WTA and from sponsors he only received rackets. His father was always very distrustful: “In my house I have a lot of rejected contracts. Last year, after Camila’s good Wimbledon tournament, they came to see me, but with contracts that were not useful. Now, the clothes that Camila wears are designed by my wife, they have no brand and are one of the best on the circuit,” Sergio said when her daughter was going through her peak. Camila Giorgi He has returned to Argentina sometimes to vacation and other times to train. In her last stay, in 2022, she had lunch with the media lawyer Carlos Maslatón and assured that Serena Williams was the best tennis player in history. Today, her future is as uncertain as her whereabouts, and no one knows what will happen to the Italian tennis player who speaks fluent Spanish.
2024-05-10 01:03:20
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