Lea Pericoli sporting a Victorian lace tennis outfit by Teddy Tinling at Wimbledon in 1970
Lea Pericoli, Italian tennis star of the Fifties and 60s, has died aged 89.
Considered considered one of her nation’s prime gamers, she reached the final 16 of the French Open twice and the Wimbledon championships thrice.
Pericoli, who was born on 22 March 1935 in Milan, later grew to become a preferred tv presenter and journalist, nevertheless it was contest outfits adorned with feather and fur that made her an icon.
“She was a bit like the mother to all of us,” Angelo Binaghi, president of the Italian Tennis and Padel Federation, instructed native media.
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Enjoying a forehand return to María Josefa de Riba of Spain throughout their Ladies’s Singles Second Spherical match on the Wimbledon Garden Tennis Championship on 21 June 1955 on the All England Garden Tennis and Croquet Membership in Wimbledon, London, England. María Josefa de Riba gained the match
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Carrying a tennis costume trimmed with feathers, designed by British sportswear designer Teddy Tinling on 23 June 1964.
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Pictured holding an umbrella on a court docket in the course of the 1965 Wimbledon Championships on 23 June 1965
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Serving to Billie Jean Moffitt of the US throughout their Ladies’s Singles Quarter Remaining match on the third version of the Federation Cup on sixteenth January 1965 on the Kooyong Garden Tennis Membership in Melbourne, Australia. Billie Jean Moffitt gained the match 6 – 1, 6 – 2
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Posing in a feathered outfit on court docket within the UK, 23 June 1968
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Pericoli (left) and Carol Kalogeropoulos of Greece, modeling Dacron outfits by inling at a press preview of the designer’s new tennis put on assortment on the Belvedere Restaurant in Holland Park, London, 22 June 1970. Percoli is sporting a flaring shift costume with fantastic pleated trim and gold and pearl decorations. Kalogeropoulos wears a bare-midriff-effect outfit of see-through mini costume, protecting a lace half-slip and bra, and silver guipure shorts
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Attending the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters 2019 in Monaco
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