jueves, 2 de abril de 2009

Tribute to my dear friend the journalist and tireless traveller italian Marco Ortolani

Marco Orlolani in the International of Beach Tennis in Las Palmas


I want to dedicate this article to ( "to" and not "for", "para" y no "por" :-) ) this lover of beach tennis, Marco Ortolani. I met him last year on December in Prague on the first International of Beach Tennis (BT). In fact we were going to play together in the double men but his unfortunately flue avoided it.

He is 41 years old ( I´m sorry Marco because now the women know the true ) and he is from Ravenna in the Adriatic´s Sea. His nickname is " The traveller " because he travells around the World seeing beach tennis competitions and he gives us updated news referred to BT.

My first impression was that he was so professional about what he writed through internet in his website http://www.ortoline.it/ concerned to BT. The time always gives or not the right. In this case the time confirmed me this first impression.

We again coincidence in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the First International of BT in Las Canteras´s beach on 14-15 March and once more he has been still most professional with 3 articles about this tournament and one of them only about stadistics. Incredible his job!. Thanks a lot.
Oce more with the time he has improved his way of doing his job. Congratulations! Besides he kept his word in Prague that it was that in the next tournament to do something more difficult, writing and playing at same time. He played with Jose Perdomo in Las Palmas. You reached your task, congratulations again!
I am brave to saying that he is one of the persons that has more knowledge aboput BT. He has a computer in his brain.
I encourage all the lovers of BT that of reading his webpage http://www.ortoline.it/ to see the quality of his articles. He has just done a fantastic interview to the champions Alex Mingozzi and Matteo Marighella that I recommend you in reading it. Besides he does other interviews to BT players, public, organizers, ...
I hope to meet you again this summer in some tournament in Italy or perhaps at somewhere around the world as Bermudas islands, Aruba island, Reunion Island, Brazil, Japan, Polland,.... I wish you the best luck , a warm hug from your canary friend,
Nino

2 comentarios:

Anónimo dijo...

Connmovido hasta lagrimas. Gracias para (o por? no se...) todo!
El Viajero

Anónimo dijo...

Gracias a ti por todo ( ya ves que es por y no para, :-)
No me extraña tu conmoción hasta las lágrimas pues sé que eres una persona sensible, se nota en tu estilo a la hora de escribir tus artículos, lo cuidadoso y detallista que eres con todo, y con las personas que entrevistas,... me alegra saber que te ha gustado o bien que te ha emocionado.
Hasta pronto.
Nino.