The 32-year-old Italian of Argentine descent was listed as “retired” in WTA records, but she did not make any announcement in this regard nor can anyone locate her. The European press has several strange hypotheses about her whereabouts.
Camila Giorgi, retired in the middle of a mystery (Al Bello/Getty Images)
Her name may sound familiar because, although she is Italian, she has Argentine ancestry from her father and coach, a former combatant in the Malvinas War. Camila Giorgi, she is a tennis player who was not having the greatest moment of her career but, at 32 years old, she still had something to resurface with her record of four WTA titles, the last one obtained a little over a year ago. . But surprisingly, this May 7, she began to appear as retired in official records, and her vain attempts to locate her and her silence on her networks unleashed a series of hypotheses in Europe about her disappearance.
The former number 26 in the world rankings (today she was 116, but in January she had reached 68) played her last match on the circuit on March 23, losing a double 6-1 with world number 1 Iga Swiatek in Miami Open. Then, silence. “No one has seen her or knows anything about her,” said La Gazzetta dello Sport. In addition, there was a change of phone number and those who searched for her lately could not even deliver her messages. Nor was there any luck in trying to talk to her father Sergio de ella, her brother Amadeus de ella, who managed the press, or her mother Claudia de ella, who promoted her career in the world of fashion.
This is precisely where her hypothetical reappearance in a new role could come from: Camila had already been promoting her new clothing brand, Giomila, and in fact her posts on Facebook since January made reference to her role as a model and not as an athlete. On Instagram, her posts were of the same tenor until seven weeks ago, when she wrote “random places” next to a photo of her in a bar. Again, outside the courts.
Another point that gave rise to suspicion was the consequent inclusion of Giorgi on the list of retired players of the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA), an organization that investigates doping and betting, so the Italian is marginalized, for example, from surprise controls. But nothing seems to have to do with this issue, according to the Gazzetta: “There is no record of failed tests or positive ones for Camila Giorgi.”
Tathiana Garbin, captain of the Fed Cup team, stated for her part: “I haven’t seen her or heard from her in months,” although she said that at the time she told her about a foot injury. The Corriere della Sera went further when it spoke of the “echo of an indiscretion that would have rushed her abroad due to problems in Italy.”
The fake vaccination theory
In Vicenza, an investigation is underway into the office of a doctor who, during the Covid-19 pandemic, provided false vaccination certificates for those who did not want to be injected but needed that document to carry out their activities. And in that case she raised the name of Camila and her family, causing media attention. For now, Justice has 25 defendants.
Last year, in dialogue with Corriere della Sera, Giorgi rejected such accusations: “The ongoing investigations are about the doctor from Vicenza, who mentioned names of famous people to cover her back, not about me. I am vaccinated in several places: vaccinated and calm, otherwise I would not have been able to play in recent months, as I have done. For me this story is over.”
Will it be in Argentina?
In that same interview in January 2023, Giorgi had spoken wonders about her father’s country and had not ruled out residing here, just after staying away from the circuit for a while: “I disappeared from tennis for three or four months, first to treat my fasciitis.” plant, then for the trip to my father’s country. In Argentina it was an extraordinary adventure, an important trip that reconnected me with my roots. I saw friends, relatives, family gathered. For once I was a tourist.” And last July, in dialogue with journalist Danny Miche, he confessed: “I told my father: ‘I want to live here.’ Hopefully it will be soon. “I am Italian, but I could never get very used to Europe.”
News is awaited to reveal the mystery.
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