The Mysterious Disappearance of Tennis Star Camila Giorgi

Camila Giorgi, 32, is a tennis player who has never won a Grand Slam tournament but still has a certain level of fame in her sport. Because she is considered an idiosyncratic personality. She rarely or never interacts with colleagues. She is usually accompanied by her Argentinian father Sergio as a trainer, whose quirkiness is reminiscent of the star roles of the actor Pierre Richard and who has often been in the headlines himself, for example for tax offenses. On her Instagram channel, she rarely if ever posts photos related to tennis, but often to very often those related to lingerie and bikinis. She gives interviews sparingly and when she does, only brief ones. In 2018, Giorgi sat in the press conference room at Wimbledon, the most hallowed venue in her industry, and admitted: “I don’t follow tennis, women’s tennis.”

That might sound bizarre for someone who makes his living in this sport. But the sentence suited her. She just ticks differently and undoubtedly enriches the professional tour in her own way, and not insignificantly, by the way, with good tennis. Four title wins on the WTA Tour are evidence of this. In 2018, in her best season, when she reached the quarterfinals at Wimbledon, she was ranked 26th in the world. She can hit it, even though she’s only 1.68 meters tall.

Open detailed viewFour titles, around six million euros in prize money: Camila Giorgi was a solid player for many years and was in the main draw at Grand Slams more than 40 times. (Photo: Sydney Low/Newscom World/Imago)

For some time now, everything in Camila Giorgi’s life no longer seems harmless and strange, but rather mysterious and opaque, to the extent that the judiciary has been interested in her for a long time. In mid-July, Giorgi has to appear before the examining judge in Vicenza for a preliminary hearing and answer. She is said to have traveled around the tennis world with a fake vaccination certificate during the corona pandemic. At that time, for example, when entering Melbourne for the Australian Open, there was a requirement that everyone had to show that they had been given a vaccine against the virus.

At the 2023 Australian Open, Giorgi first faced public questions about the allegations after her doctor claimed that she, Giorgi, had requested a fake vaccination certificate, according to Italian media reports. At this once again memorable press conference, Giorgi assured that she had been vaccinated, but she repeatedly avoided the question of whether she had been vaccinated against the coronavirus. To this day there is a need for clarification, although the Giorgi file has been enriched with a second accusation: the Italian from Macerata in the Marche is said to owe her home country taxes, almost half a million euros, according to the report Gazzetta dello Sport reported. There is supposedly even an enforcement order, that’s how far the case has progressed. Her parents and her two brothers also had tax “gaps,” it was said. In her career, Giorgi earned around six million euros in prize money.

She played her last match on March 23rd at the tournament in Miami – Camila Giorgi lost 1:6, 1:6 against Iga Swiatek

However, you cannot ask Giorgi, and the Italian authorities are apparently unable to do so either. Because she ended her career head over heels – and literally disappeared. The WTA, which has the contact details of its players, was also reportedly unable to reach her. So tennis and the judiciary even ask themselves: Where is Camila Giorgi anyway?

It is speculated that she is in San Diego and that she has a second home on the California coast. She was also in the USA when she played her last match. On March 23rd she lost 1:6, 1:6 against world number one Iga Swiatek from Poland at the tournament in Miami; In the world rankings she is still ranked 116th. The latest mystery surrounding her person picked up steam almost a week ago when a British journalist noticed that Giorgi was now listed as “retired” on the International Tennis Integrity Agency’s homepage. He posted this message on X; The ITIA is an agency that monitors the behavior of professionals on behalf of the tennis institutions and sanctions misconduct such as betting fraud or doping.

“I am grateful for your wonderful love,” Giorgi shares on Instagram

Three days after the experts were astonished to learn that Giorgi had not officially communicated the end of his career, the woman who had gone into hiding came forward via Instagram. “I am happy to formally announce my retirement from tennis. I am grateful for your wonderful love and support over so many years,” she said. She did not comment on the allegations, she only wrote nebulously: “There are many inaccurate rumors about my future plans” and she looks forward to “providing more information.” She concluded by saying, “With much love, Camila.”

But even the two heart emojis that she put at the end of her short explanation should not prevent the guesswork from continuing. It is said that Giorgi has now changed her phone number. Meanwhile, the Tennis Channel, the industry’s leading television station in the USA, promised to stay tuned to the topic. After all, the Giorgi case has the potential to become “the wildest tennis story of 2024.”

2024-05-13 14:41:32
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