Four women were important in the life of the great tennis champion

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A life full of love

There were four important women in Nicola Pietrangeli’s life: his wife Susanna, whom he met when he was 21, his relationship with Licia Colò, then Lorenza, and finally Paola, his last love. The champion said that the well-known TV presenter of nature programs was his greatest regret: “I was hurt, I thought it would be the definitive relationship.”

He never considered himself a playboy, believing it to be a label that others had given him when he was young. Until the last moments of his life, he always insisted that he had never betrayed any of these four important women in his life. “Once, you can’t even call it betrayal. In Monte Carlo, I found myself in a room with an ex of mine, and I even fell asleep,” he said on the eve of his 90th birthday in an interview with La Repubblica. “I think a man can betray even without getting involved,” he added.

In the last years of his life, he never felt alone, as he could count on the affection of his three children, Marco, Giorgio (a former surfer who died on July 4), and Filippo, whom he had with his wife Susanna, and his grandchildren. Love was an important part of his life, from the first kiss he always remembered, given to a maid who worked for a lady in the building on Via delle Carrozze, where he lived with his family in 1946. Until late in life, when he candidly admitted to using Viagra: “But it’s better not to tell women, they get offended and think you don’t find them attractive.” Despite everything, the four important women in his life all left him.