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Tennis like a novel: goodbye to the great Gianni Clerici

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Tennis like a novel: goodbye to the great Gianni Clerici

The journalist and writer Gianni Clerici passed away at the age of 91 in Bellagio. He was first a professional tennis player but then above all a chronicler and commentator for Il Giorno and then for Repubblica as well as a prolific author of novels, short stories and plays.

Born in Como in 1930, he had won two Italian junior doubles titles paired with Fausto Gardini and a De Galea cup in Vichy in 1950 and participated as a singles player in Wimbledon (1953) and Roland Garros (1954) without ever exceeding the first round. However, he has also become famous for the general public thanks to his commentary of the great tournaments paired with Rino Tommasi.

His cutting irony, sense of humor, literary quotes and deep knowledge of the sport he has always loved have made him the greatest Italian tennis journalist.

Together with Tommasi Clerici he told live some of the most spectacular matches in the history of tennis, with champions like Sampras, Federer, Djokovic and that Nadal who just yesterday celebrated his fourteenth Roland Garros.

The Clerici-Tommasi formula was immediately successful and appreciated by the public: on the one hand the almost maniacal precision of Tommasi in compiling the match statistics with his “red circle” points, on the other hand the always original comments of Clerici full of never banal anecdotes and cultured quotations.

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