Number 1 in Italy for 14 years between 1959 and 1976all-time record, and number 2 four more times (1960, 1961, 1962 and 1973). He played 29 matches for the national team, with a record of eight wins in singles and six in doubles.
On the international circuit She won in Crans Montana in 1954, Istanbul in 1958, Bastad and Lesa in 1960, Santa Fe in 1961, Palermo and Lesa in 1962, Genoa in 1968, Cairo in 1969 and Roma Canottieri in 1970. .She was a finalist in Messina in 1950. , Athens in 1958, Sao Paulo and Santiago in 1961, Moscow in 1966 and 4 times (1967, 1970, 1972 and 1973) in Cairo.
In doubles, among his greatest successes are the victories he obtained in Monte Carlo in 1964, 1965 and 1966, Bastad in 1960, Gstaad in 1974 and 1975.
Garlic Italian international She was a semi-finalist in 1967, reached the semi-finals 4 times (1959, 1962, 1969 and 1971) and the round of 16 8 times (1953, 1955, 1960, 1963, 1964, 1965 and 19). She played five doubles finals with Silvana Lazzarino (from 1962 to 1965 and in 1967). With her, he founded the Italian team in London in 1963.
His life was an adventure, which began in Addis Ababa, where his father moved the family after the Ethiopian War. He was the one who gave her the first racket. A long love affair with tennis began and continued in Kenya, where she was sent to study, and then around the world. At 17, while on vacation in Versiglia where his father Paolo Bertolucci was teaching, he realizes that his love can be something else and he chooses tennis as a career. “Whoever tries to be a champion is fighting a constant war: it’s a very educational sport that has taught me a lot,” he said. In the same spirit she gave defying prejudice, and she beat two tumors: uterine carcinoma in 1973 and breast cancer in 2012.
President Angelo Binaghi and the entire Italian tennis movement include his family with respect in this time of great pain.
2024-10-04 10:08:03
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