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Italian tennis star Camila Giorgi who reached the Wimbledon quarter finals is targeted by sexist trolls who say her raunchy lingerie snaps make her look more like a ‘porn star than an athlete’
- Camila Giorgi, from Italy, is set to compete at the Australian Open next month
- The 29-year-old shared snaps in lingerie on Instagram during the festive period
- Professional tennis player’s saucy snaps have divided fans across social media
Tennis star Camila Giorgi has been targeted by sexist trolls after sharing a series of racy lingerie snaps on social media – with critics accusing her of looking like a ‘porn star’ rather than an athlete.
The professional player, 29, from Italy, who reached the Wimbledon quarter finals in 2018 and is set to play in the Australian Open next month, was once ranked number 26 in the world and boasts over 308,000 followers on Instagram.
She recently posted ‘sensual’ photos of herself posing in lacy underwear on the social media platform, but was met with a barrage of criticism including one commenter who wrote: ‘Come on! You are gorgeous but do you really need to expose your body in public to boost your confidence?’
Another wrote: ‘From a tennis player to a porn actress on a set.’
Camila Giorgi, 29, (pictured) from Italy, has divided fans after sharing a series of photographs on Instagram dressed in raunchy lingerie
The tennis player posted a series of photographs wearing racy red lingerie on Christmas Eve
The professional tennis player (pictured) posted a snap wearing a white corset and matching stockings, days after sharing photographs wearing a red lingerie set
The tennis player posted a series of photographs wearing racy red lingerie on Christmas Eve.
She continued the theme on New Year’s Day, sharing a snap wearing a white corset and matching stockings, captioned: ‘Happy New Year #2021 #NewBeginning.’
A flood of comments on the recent photographs questioned the move towards posting more alluring snaps.
One person wrote: ‘Lovely Camila, does this mean your tennis career is over?’
Camila Giorgi pictured competing at Wimbeldon in 2018, after winning her third round match against Katerina Siniakova of the Czech Republic
A flood of comments on the recent photographs questioned the move towards posting more alluring snaps
A stream of responses to the photographs questioned if Camila is still pursing her tennis career
‘Now every photo more and more sensual, what happened?’ another asked.
Italian journalist Stefano Cagelli penned an article for Tennis Fever about Camila’s photographs, explaining she is a good tennis player but hasn’t particularly ‘matured’ with age.
He wrote: ‘Far be it from us to do useless and anachronistic moralisms, everyone is free to do with their life (and therefore their social showcases) what they believe.
‘But we would like to use the words that Maria Sharapova said a few days ago to talk about her last months on the courts: “I kept getting noticed, but not for my tennis. Then I realized that it was right to stop”.
‘Here, if we were in Camila Giorgi’s place, we would begin to wonder if her goal is still to improve her tennis or if she has something else in mind. Nothing wrong with that, of course.’
