On Friday, Feb. 23, in the evocative setting of Palazzo Pianetti in Jesi, an event entitled. Pallacord and beyond. The wonderful case of Jesi. During the evening, celebratory lectures for the 10-year anniversary of “Jesi European City of Sport” will be presented, as well as the book of balette, which will crown a project that began in 2013 with the discovery in Mantua of six leather spheres (quite similar to those found in 1936 in Jesi), the ancestors of today’s tennis balls. Among the evening’s guests will be Francesco Rognoni, a professor of English and American literature at the Brescia and Milan campuses of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, as well as a proponent of the arrival of the Gianni Clerici Fund in Cattolica. The Como journalist and writer, always extremely involved in tennis affairs, had christened the “Club delle Balette” in 2019.