Italian Tennis and Padel Federation (FITP) invited Papa Friday LEO XIVselected on Thursday as alternatively of FranciscoTo go to Masters and WTA 1,000 contests in Rome after his tennis fans.
The American with citizenship in Peruvian Robert Francis PrevostThe New Pope Leo Xiv, is a fan confined to tennis.
“I consider myself an amateur tennis player. Since I left Peru, I have little occasion to do it so I really want to go back to track. My new job (Cardinal) has not left me much free time for it,” he said in an Augustian order interview, at the Augustinian Order portal.
A curiosity that Fitp took the opportunity to invite the new Pontiff to the Italic Forum where until May 18 the Italian beat Earth Tournament was disputed and where the Italian Jannik SinnerNumber 1 in the world, reappears after a 3 -month penalty for its positive at Clostebol in Indian Wells 2024.
“I wrote a letter to the pope to invite the Masters and WTA 1,000 from Rome. If you could come to this edition I would not know, it seemed to me, but the one who knew: the miracles were also going on in life,” the President said, said Angelo BinaghiIn a press release provided by the federation itself.
“Pope Leo Xiv is a great tennis fan and for us it’s a pride. Also the fact that we have a new Fitp chief at an ancient Augustine Convent, in Rome. We are changing. I want to say not one, but two coincidences,” he added.
Source: La Verdad
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