Tennis

9 September 2020

FILA goes to Hollywood: The Firm

Movies about English working class’ anger are many and valuable: just think of Master Ken Loach’s entire filmography. Not mention the verve of Full Monty by Peter…
2 September 2020

Meet the designer: Pierluigi Rolando – 3

During the Seventies designer Pierluigi Rolando didn’t only reimagine tennis players’ looks, but also another great revolution by FILA: sponsorships. It was the beginning of an era…
19 August 2020

Courtside: Ray Giubilo

Can I turn on the fan? It’s so hot, in here As we video call Ray Giubilo, he istantly engages us with charming openness. Born in Adelaide,…
8 July 2020

Forty years later

Who knows if on July 5th, 1980, before getting on the tennis court, Björn Borg and John McEnroe read it, even in passing, or their concentration couldn’t…
15 June 2020

110: Silences and champions

People around me don’t talk that much. Pierluigi was reserved, as I already told you. He created me silently, the only sounds I could hear were the…
15 June 2020

110: A Birthday

That’s how it all began, do you remember? After one month, I can confirm it: sometimes it seems I’m just dreaming. And thinking back to all the…
1 April 2020

Time to win: meet Sofia Kenin

Who knows if he imagined they would become true, and that her daughter, now 21, could win the Australian Open. The youngest winner since Maria Sharapova, to…