Camila Giorgi leaves tennis

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Camila Giorgi leaves tennis

She hasn’t officially announced it, but her name, dated May 7, appears on the ITIA list, the list of retired tennis players: Camila Giorgi, 32 years old last Dec. 30, is leaving competitive tennis. She played her last official match last March in the second round of the WTA in Miami, losing with a double 6-1 to Polish world number 1 Iga Swiatek.

Camila è the great incomplete of Italian tennis, endowed with immense potential but who did not è go further than world number 26, touched on October 22, 2018, and winner in her career of only four WTA major circuit tournaments; one on the ’grass in ’s-Hertogenbosch in 2015, one indoor in Linz in 2018, one on cement in Merida last year and one, the most important, in the ’Canadian Open on cement in Montreal in 2021, her only win in a 1000, when she defeated Czech Karolina Pliskova in the final.

She has also lost six finals, while in Grand Slam tournaments, in which she has a record of 45 matches won and 46 lost, her best result was the quarterfinals at Wimbledon in 2018, when she succumbed in three sets to Serena Williams after winning the first. At Roland Garros and the US Open è she reached the round of 16 once, while at the Australian Open five times in the round of 16.

She was a member of the Fed Cup team, the current Billie Jean King Cup, from 2014 to 2016, in 2019 and then from 2021 to 2023. In addition, she collected 17 wins over tennis players ranked among the top ten at that time. She finally won, from 2009 to 2012, five tournaments on the ITF circuit, in which she made her debut in’August 2006 at the age of 14. She leaves as world number 116 and a tally, in 2024, of 3 wins and 6 losses.

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