Special for the 70th anniversary of Guillermo Vilas, together with Gabriela Sabatini. Photo: Clarin Archive.
William Vila celebrates his 70th birthday and countless personalities from the world of sport, as well as from other fields, have taken the time to greet him through social networks.
Among them, the Instagram account of the Buenos Aires grass tennis club, where the man from Mar del Plata was eight times champion, prepared a video for him which contains the presence of important personalities from the tennis world. Between them, Gabriela Sabatini.
“Hi Guillermo, I wanted to wish you a happy birthday. Happy 70th”, Gaby’s greeting began.
“You know how much I admire you, how much I adore you. You have marked the way for us in this beautiful sport. I always carry you in my heart. I send you a huge kiss, I love you very much “, he concluded.
In the same video appeared another of the great Argentine tennis players of all time, Norma Baylon, who became among the top five players in the world in the 1960s.
“I met Guillermo at an awards ceremony at a Championship of the Republic that I won. I don’t remember if he was in the year 62 ‘or 63’, in the official garage. He would have been 10 or 12 years old,” he said. recalled him four times in the quarter-finals of the Grand Slam tournament.
Then he added: “I admire his tenacity in training, in improving his tennis and, above all, that, Thanks to him, tennis took the momentum it had later and led it to become such a popular sport. “
Audience Phiang Vilas, Guillermo’s daughter, for her father’s 70th birthday.
“Tenacity” was a word that Paraguayan also used Vittorio Pecciwhich he also highlighted “His perseverance, the claw he put into it and how he enjoyed playing tennis day after day.”
Pecci and Vilas met 14 times on the professional circuit, with a favorable record for Argentina’s 11-3, including the finals in Washington 1979 and Mar del Plata 1981, while Guaraní especially remember their victory in the quarter-finals of Roland Garros 1979.
Source: Clarin