In the last episode of TennisManiabroadcast on the channel OA Sport Youtube, Dario Puppo (Eurosport journalist) highlighted various themes. The first is related to the withdrawal of Camila Giorgi. The Marche native, in a very particular way, decided not to directly communicate the decision to say goodbye to tennis, but everything was made known by the list of International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) which involves the presence of Camila in this regard.
“I have never seen something like this, there is this organization that takes into account withdrawals, as well as anti-doping procedures, which indirectly broke the news. It is one of the most curious things I remember and from a certain point of view it may be representative of how much tennis ended up in the background in her interests, given that she had passions for art and fashion.“, Puppo said.
“Camila then didn’t want to be trained by others because she was fine with that dimension with her father Sergio. It’s true that when I saw her play with the Italy shirt, also given the relationship she had with Tathian Garbin, she played in a slightly more sensible manner. If I think of the smile at Indian Wells in the press conference, announcing something surprising in the coming weeks, I didn’t imagine it could be this, who knows…“, Puppo added.
Then speaking about Luciano Darderi and Flavio Cobolli, the Eurosport commentator expressed interesting assessments: “I really like the Italian-Argentinian for the way he experiences the match and involves the public. As a way of playing he reminds me of the current ATP president, Andrea Gaudenzi, perhaps with more power on the forehand side. Cobolli is making a wonderful journey and he surprises me with the great maturity in his statements. Having a coach/former player pope (Stefano Cobolli, ed.) is a positive aspect. Let’s remember that Flavio could have played football, saying “No” to Bruno Conti“.
On Matteo Arnaldi, Puppo’s idea is the following: “I was struck by reading that he declared, regarding Sinner, that he felt capable of soaring, because anyone can become no.1. Secondly, I have not yet seen the version of the second part of 2023 that had impressed me”. To completion, the colleague concluded on Sinner: “Based on what we know and the fact that he chose to go to the Juventus medical centre, a facility where he had already been in the past, I have the feeling that Jannik will play in Paris“.
