Lucia Bronzetti: How One Italian Tennis Player Became a Geopolitical Football in a Burning World
Lucia Bronzetti and the Beautiful Futility of Chasing Yellow Balls By our man in the cheap seats, Rome–Madrid–Melbourne circuit The planet is busy immolating itself—Arctic on clearance, democracies running end-of-season sales—yet for two hours on a Thursday afternoon in Rome, 3,000 otherwise sane Italians squeezed into Campo Centrale to watch 23-year-old Lucia Bronzetti swipe a…