A former student of the École normale supérieure and a graduate of Sciences Po Paris, David Brunat has been a member of several ministerial cabinets. Associate consultant at LPM Communications and novelist, he is the author of
Miscellanées du tennis
(Éditions Fetjaine) and contributes to the journal T
ennis Magazine.
For nearly a century since it was born, this national treasure has seen all the colors.
Carried on the baptismal font by the glorious Musketeers, he experienced the Great Depression of the 1930s, a world war which suspended all tennis activity within it, the feverish outbreak of May 68 which did not prevent the tournament from taking place - under the paving stones, the crushed brick!
-, some sporting and financial scandals, and more recently an interminable political and legal match on the future of the stadium: was it necessary to move far away or to preserve the sanctuary of the Porte d'Auteuil, to equip or not its central court with a roof , adapt to survive or risk perishing for lack of
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