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Pietrangeli Persuaded
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) ROME.
The vice-president of the Italian Tennis Federation, Mr L. Orsini, said yesterday that he and other tennis officials had persuaded Italy’s No. 1 player, N. Pietrangeli, to give up the idea of turning professional.
Pietrangeli said last December that he had accepted professional terms and would change over after playing for Italy in the Davis Cup.
Mr Orsini said that the intervention of the Italian federation had been “most active, but discreet”
He added: “We spoke to him for a long time as old friends and we told him our ideas about his future as an athlete and as a man.”
There was also a proposal in the air to open a tennis school in Rome which Pietrangeli would run.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31082, 10 June 1966, Page 13
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