The Masters
‘Er Francia’ shines in Paris: Nicola Pietrangeli becomes Slam champion
24 July 2025
Gianni Clerici was perhaps the world’s greatest expert on Nicola Pietrangeli, so much so that he once even refused to write his biography, as he himself said. He knew him so well that he could discuss every single technical gesture…
25 May 1976: “Panatta, miraculously saved”
24 July 2025
Can you imagine someone climbing to the top of the Madonnina, slipping, and from spire to spire, landing right on the church steps? Without a scratch, a bump, just a lot of fear and cold sweat? Do you say it’s…