The harsh accusation against the Italian tennis player Camila Giorgi, daughter of a former Argentine fighter from the Malvinas

A few days before the start of the 2023 season – which will kick off on New Year’s Eve, in Australia, with the inaugural edition of the united cup-, tennis was shaken by the news that the Italian Camilla George was involved in an investigation into forging vaccination certificates against coronavirus.

The name of the number 67 in the world ranking, 30 years old and daughter of an Argentinean, veteran of the Falklands Warappears on a client list of a doctor who provided false documents that allowed the bearer to travel to countries requiring vaccines, without being inoculated against Covid, according to the Italian newspaper Vicenza newspaper.

The investigation that the Prosecutor of the Municipality of Vicenza has been carrying out for months has already led to the arrest of three people in February. Those detained for the crime of ideological fraud, following alleged irregularities in the procedure for obtaining the “Green Pass”the passport for vaccinations, were the doctors Daniela Grillone Tecioiu Y Erich Volker Goepel, Y Andrew Jamespartner of Volker Goepel.

All three were released pending trial as they were deemed not a flight risk. In recent days, a list of the beneficiaries of these manipulated passports has been made public, including Giorgi and the singer Lady (Francesca Calearo, 20 years old).

Even if the agency HANDLE He assured that the player has never been a patient of suspicious doctors, the hypothesis that the investigators are handling is that she went to those professionals to obtain the certificate without having been immunized.

Giorgi, winner of three titles WTA (‘s-Hertogenbosch 2015, Linz 2018 and the WTA 1000 in Montreal 2021) and who came to occupy the 26th step of the ranking in October 2018, played several tournaments in this 2022 which he would have lost if, as suspected, he had fact I have not been vaccinated against Covid.

The Italian started the season at Australian Openwhere he reached the third round and said his goodbyes to the venue Ashleigh Bartyat that time world number one and later title winner.

At that time, the oceanic country required its foreign visitors to present their vaccination certificate and their own Novak Djokovicchampion in 2021, he was unable to compete in the tournament because he was not vaccinated (he was expelled after days of great tension and after the visa with which he had entered Melbourne was revoked).

Already in the second half of the year Giorgi presented himself in various competitions in the United States, another country which requested a “health passport” and which also denied Djokovic entry.

He played the one born in Macerata Saint Joseph, California in early August (lost on debut). After the WTA 1000 in Toronto (he reached the round of 16), he was present at the Cincinnati WTA 1000 (lost in the first round) and finished his season in US Open (said goodbye in the second wheel).

For all these appointments he had to present a vaccination certificate which, according to the Vicenza investigation, it would be false.

The investigation documents were also presented to the authorities of the Italian Tennis Federationso that they can take the measures they deem appropriate.