Fabio Fognini, very harsh attack against Filippo Volandri

Fabio Fognini during the new episode of the Rai program “Belve” hosted by Francesca Fagnani took a pebble off his shoe. In fact, in particular, he revealed a backstory related to the captain of Italy’s Davis Cup, starting with the’last nonconvocation before his farewell to played tennis (and the’beginning of his new adventure in Ballando con le Stelle): “On the very day I had announced at Wimbledon my retirement, I was at dinner and at the next table was him,Volandri: he greeted us but didn&#8217t have the courage to say anything to me, not even a career compliment”.

Andrea Gussoni

“He didn&#8220t tell me anything. Nothing was made clear to me. I haven&#8217t had a confrontation with anybody, I think that&#8217s the most ridiculous thing. Being a man requires confrontations, sometimes even with different opinions. Whyhas he excluded me? Ask him. That&#8217s how it was, I didn&#8217t accept it and I&#8217ll never accept it”. Fognini also told of suffering from panic attacks: “I have never been so bad. The first time it happened at Roland Garros”. And again: “I could have earned much more, but for the attitudes I had some fines came. The biggest one? At the US Open, from 96 thousand euros”.

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Filippo Volandri has not responded for now but on Monday expressed his condolences for the death of Nicola Pietrangeli: “Today our tennis loses a giant. Nicola Pietrangeli was the first idol and the first real reference point for anyone who loved the sport. For those of us who wear or have worn the blue jersey, he was never just a great champion of the past. From the wry joke to the most serious advice, he always had the right way to make you think and to remind you what it means to represent Italy. He was free, direct, authentic: that’s why he was unique,” the Livorno native added, in a post on Instagram.