Not a line in her Instagram account “Camila Giorgi official” where she still presents herself as an “athlete and pro tennis player”. Not a press conference, and not even a word to the Federation (with which the tennis player had broken up in 2016, denying herself the Fed Cup, and then mending the relationship a couple of years later) taken by surprise by the silent farewell. Camila Giorgi, 32 years old, who knows if at the suggestion of her cumbersome and omnipresent coach father, the Argentinian Sergio, veteran of the Falklands war, has decided to end her career quietly, without a word: as of yesterday she is a former tennis player as stated in the list of the International Tennis Integrity Agency which contains the names of tennis players who have retired and are therefore no longer available to carry out anti-doping tests.
Camila is still in the WTA ranking, at number 116, and her name will probably be archived in the update of May 20th, at the end of the Italian Internationals for which the athlete from Macerata was not registered. She hadn’t played since last March 23 when she had only managed two games against world number one Iga Swiatek and left the scene with the best ranking of 26 in the world obtained in 2018 and with six and a half million dollars won in her career. Its exclusive business will now be fashion, with its “Giomila” brand founded by the parents of the champion Sergio, who controls the company 100%, and by her mother, the fashion designer Claudia Gabriella Fullone, who has always also designed sexy outfits that Camila wore. A company for which Giorgi is a model and testimonial and to which, between fashion shows and sexy photos on her social media, she now dedicated a lot of her time, to the detriment of tennis.
There remain the four titles among which the Canada Open stands out three years ago, which made her the second Italian in history, after Flavia Pennetta, to win a WTA 1000. A talent that was a little wasted or at least not exploited to the fullest, that of Camila, who was Italy’s number 1 for 236 weeks and for five consecutive seasons. She reached the quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2018, the quarter-finals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, the round of 16 at Roland Garros 2022 and at the US Open 2013. Camila, who with her tennis full of power and little tactics, wasted opportunities notable players, she will be able to tell her grandchildren that she beat top players such as Maria Sharapova, Victoria Azarenka, Iga Swiatek, Aryna Sabalenka to name a few. All top tennis players, what she could have been too.