Tennis star and style icon Lea Pericoli has passed away

Lea Pericoli, the Italian tennis star of the 1950s and 60s, has died at the age of 89.

Considered one of her country’s top tennis players, she twice reached the last 16 of the French Open and won Wimbledon three times.

Pericoli, born on March 22, 1935 in Milan, later became a famous television presenter and journalist, but it was her competition costumes decorated with feathers and fur that made her an icon. statue.

“She is a bit like the mother of all of us,” Angelo Binaghi, president of the Italian Padel and Tennis Federation, told local media.