Camila Giorgi could go to trial after claims she forged a COVID-19 vaccination passport have seen her charged back home in Italy.
A doctor was under investigation back in January for supplying false certificates and fake vaccines and Giorgi was long listed in a list of people implicated by an Italian newspaper.
She said that she had visited the doctor but denied any wrongdoing. But now as per Corriere Del Veneto, an inquiry was set up and she was listed with 25 names who have now been charged by the deputy prosecutor with forgery to obtain the certificate.
At the time back in January in particular, she protested her innocence with her father sitting at the back of her Australian Open press conference simply shaking his head in disbelief surrounding no questions about tennis.
This after she had just defeated Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-0, 6-1 while the allegations swirled.
"I just did all my vaccination in different places, so the trouble is hers, not me," she said. "So with that, I'm very calm. Of course, if not, I couldn't come here and play this tennis, I think."
None of the family 'effectively vaccinated'
On if she had them in Italy, she also said: "Once. The other vaccination, I did it in different kind of places, so it's what I'm trying to explain," she added.
Further tweets from January said that the pretrial hearing noted that the doctor accused confirmed that no one of the Giorgi family 'was effectively vaccinated'.
But it now seems those claims could be catching up with her heading into the US Open in a country that only just reduced its mandates surrounding the pandemic.
Despite her protestation, she could now have to answer those claims in a court back in Italy.