Lea Pericoli, who has died aged 89, was a top-flight Italian tennis player better remembered for enlivening the circuit in ...

Italian tennis star and style icon Lea Pericoli has died at the age of 89, the Italian Tennis Federation announced on Friday.

Lea Pericoli, Italian tennis star of the 1950s and 60s, has died aged 89. Regarded as one of her country's top players, she ...

Lea Pericoli was one of the most popular Italian tennis players of the 1950s and 1960s, but her fame was not limited to the ...

Pericoli also represented Italy in Billie Jean King Cup – known at the time as Fed Cup – and made her debut in the competition's inaugural year of 1963. She won 15 of the 30 matches she contested in ...

Rafael Nadal has led tributes from around the tennis world after Italian great Lea Pericoli died aged 89 in Milan. The former ...

Lea Pericoli, the 'lady of tennis', has left us, passing away at the age of 89. She was one of the first women to narrate ...

Tennis legends Chris Evert, Rafael Nadal, and Jannik Sinner unite to honor the late Italian tennis icon Lea Pericoli. Known ...

Lea Pericoli’s furious father ordered her to tone down her outfits, but by the 1960s attitudes had relaxed, and she turned out in increasingly avant-garde Tinling outfits, testing Wimbledon’s ...