Cobolli inaugurates the field dedicated to Pietrangeli at Tc Parioli: “He was a special person”

Everyone wants him, everyone is looking for him and he, more or less, tries to be found. Always. Flavio Cobolli certainly couldn’t miss this evening’s Sports Festival at Tc Parioli, the Roman club where he grew up, also because the event is particularly important. In the presence of his sons Marco and Filippo, the vice-president of Parioli Roberto de Lieto announced that court number 4 of the Tennis Club will be named after Nicola Pietrangeli. “Dad would have been happy, he took his first steps as a tennis player here,” said Filippo. And Marco: “I imagine him climbing over the wall of the old Parioli to go and play football at Rondinella”. Marco also revealed a background story: after the email immediately following the death of the tennis legend, this morning the Pietrangeli family also received a letter signed by Roger Federer: “He talks about dad as an important symbol and vehicle for Italian tennis and beyond. He always remembers him with great pleasure, especially when he came and had the opportunity to meet him at the Rome Internationals”.