Camila Giorgi has been accused of many things over the years. Predictability has never been one of them.
The 33 -year -old Italian, a former tennis player who reached a ranking of his career at number 26 in the world in 2018 before retiring last May, has a history of doing things in his own way.
Take the 2021 season of Giorgi, which began by publishing a series of lingerie photos on her Instagram account. It was a movement that caused a lot of talk in tennis circles. Giorgi had taken the eye of the ball? Was perhaps aligning a new career as a model?
Giorgi's eloquent riposte occurred later that year, when he defeated Karolina Pliskova, a former number 1 of the world that had reached the Wimbledon final the previous month, to win the Canada Open, one of the biggest events out of the Grand Slams.
It was the most significant victory of his career and seemed to mark a possible turning point, with Giorgi Temperating his infernal play style for leather to offer a controlled aggression performance. But not even the long -awaited capture of a title according to his talent seemed to alter Giorgi's declared preference for fashion about tennis.
“I really like sports, but I like fashion,” said Giorgi, whose mother Claudia Fullone is a designer. “(It is) an obsession that has happened to me since I was a child.”
Camila Giorgi, 33 years
Giorgi was accused of not paying the rent and eliminating the “half of the furniture” of a rented villa in Calenzano, near Florence last year. Since then he has denied the claims of an Italian television program.
When the Italian put a red satin dress to make a master class of the Christmas Eve desert on his Instagram channel last year, the video was seen 1.2 million times
However, in particular, Giorgi also had care to emphasize the same interview that his revealing social media publications were taken for some rare moments of inactivity in an exhausting out of season. Inevitably begged questions. How did Giorgi look and how did he want them to see her? High flight athlete? Dedicated fashionist? A little of both?
It is only an example of the contradictory nature of a player whose talent for bad kicks on the court was matched by his ability to catch observers.
Another came this week, when Giorgi appeared in Argentina Open, a male event in Buenos Aires, in a new role of reports.
As images appeared in his instagram story of Giorgi interviewing Argentine players Sebastian Baez and Guido Pella, there was a palpable sensation of surprise in many sectors.
Outside its activity on social networks, including a master class of the eve of Christmas, dressed in a red satin dress, which has been seen more than one million times, Giorgi has barely been seen since he retired without fanfare last year amid accusations of fiscal evasion and unpaid rent in his native Italy.
It was a curious business, with the owner of a Villa Giorgi and his family had been renting in Calenzano, a city on the outskirts of Florence, claiming that the sticks had unexpectedly increased with six months of outstanding rental and eliminated the valuable furniture of the furniture of furniture furniture. property.
Giorgi denied the accusations during an appearance in the Italian chat program Verissimo last October, describing the statements as ridiculous.
“The house had no furniture and we always pay the rent,” he said. 'The news made me laugh.'
After moving to the United States with his family, during which he was rarely seen beyond social networks, Giorgi has been seen interviewing players in Argentina Open this week
Giorgi's incursion into the world of modeling may have raised eyebrows in the tennis community, but peculiarities and controversies have long been the Italian presentation card
Giorgi has now returned to tennis as a reporter in Argentina Open in Buenos Aires
Giorgi also poured cold water to the suggestions that he had “fled” to the United States, “it was not an escape,” he insisted, “I moved to the United States permanently with my parents”, and said that his retirement simply coincided with the conclusion of A conclusion of a conclusion of a conclusion of a conclusion of a conclusion investigation by Guardia Di Finanza, an agency to apply the Italian law that deals with the financial crime.
She said that the alleged gaps in their tax statements were reduced to a lawyer with whom he no longer had deals.
The problems with the tax authorities? My family did not know about them, Giorgi said. “They were created by external people who handled me.”
It is said that the perception is nine tenths of the law, and the abrupt nature of the game of Giorgi of the game, without a doubt, did little to shine his public image. Even the WTA, the governing body of the female game, fought to corroborate the statements of his retirement after his name appeared in the list of retired players of the International Tennis Integrity Agency.
But there also Giorgi set up a robust defense, explaining that he left the sport because he was exhausted and simply “couldn't travel anymore.” He also said that a planned retirement announcement had been expelled from the water for the publication of the IIA list.
Everything made a conclusion full of agitated in a tennis race that began when Giorgi, who has two brothers, Leandro and Amadeus, Antonela, his younger sister, died tragically in a car accident in Paris in 2011, first picked up a shelf like five – years of age
However, for the followers of his career for a long time, the shock that accompanied the departure of Giorgi of the sport was simply so much water from the back of a duck. If the eyebrows were frown every time the Italian made an unforeseen movement over the years, Botox's bill would have been incalculable.
The peculiarities and controversies have long been the Giorgi presentation card from the beginning, when the private sponsors who said they had invested in their potential in the understanding that would be paid through their future profits transmitted their complaints in an article Posted by Sports Illustrated.
Giorgi is an active presence on Instagram, where he has accumulated 719,000 followers
Giorgi is seen in action in Roland Garros in 2022, when he caused controversy during his third round victory over Aryna Sabalenka when wearing a large sponsorship logo in her dress in her dress
Giorgi has cut a relaxed figure in Buenos Aires and seems to be enjoying his new mandate as a tennis reporter, even publishing an image of his online accreditation
Both Giorgi and his father Sergio, an Argentine of Italian descent who was also his coach, denied the accusations, which occurred only months after a striking race until the last 16 of the United States Open in 2013.
Pressing about the statements after defeating Maria Sharapova in Indian Wells the following spring, Giorgi replied: “I just want to talk about tennis, not this.” When he was given that, at the age of 22, he was no longer too young to be responsible for his actions, he suggested that his interrogator was being aggressive.
Sergio, meanwhile, who was recruited to fight in the Falklands War in 1982, attributed the accusations to the bitterness by a discontent coach who had housed ambitions to train his daughter.
There was also a small stir on the origin of the elegant white lacque He affirmed that the outfit was his work.
There were disputes with the Italian Federation, he says that Giorgi used a false Covid Vaccination certificate at the Australian Open in 2022, and another costume drama at the France Open of that year, where a third round victory over Aryna Sabalenka was eclipsed for a dispute over the size of the dispute. of a sponsor logo that is shown in her dress.
However, for experienced observers, the perennial fascination of Giorgi's career was itself could develop his natural power and athletics in an important title. His high-risk style and high reward was, ultimately, too unpredictable to boost seven consecutive victories in a fortnight of Grand-Slam, with its best result a quarter-final end in Wimbledon in 2018.
But as Giorgi embarks on a new chapter in the game, exchanging his racket for a microphone, he will always have that emotional afternoon in Toronto when everything joined Pliskova.
A naturally reserved character, Giorgi offered a rare indication of emotion when he turned to his father after victory, recognizing the culmination of “all the work we have been organizing during all these years.” His words offered an adequate summary of his career.
“I am very happy to have this gift,” Giorgi said. 'When you dedicate all your work, I think that one day comes beautiful things, you know?'