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How the Federer myth "lost twenty years of French tennis", according to Gilles Simon

2020-10-28T17:15:27.306Z


ANALYSIS - In a fascinating book, the tennis player from Nice makes a severe report of the failure of French training, obsessed with the search for a new Federer.


Autobiographies of active athletes or young retirees are being picked up in spades this fall (see also below).

Tennis is no exception to this fashion.

After Alizé Cornet, it's the turn of Gilles Simon, soon to be 36, to swap the racket for the pen.

But This sport that drives you crazy (Flammarion editions) does not speak, or little, about him.

Above all, the book offers a deep and interesting reflection on the lack of Grand Slam victory for thirty-seven years and the coronation of Yannick Noah at Roland-Garros, in French men's tennis.

The former world number 6 now 58th, not very fond of the media exercise, confides to Le Figaro: “The media game, where form often wins over substance, does not please me.

But with a book, I could have 100% control over what I said.

With Grégory Schneider (journalist at Liberation who collaborated on the writing of the book), we broached many subjects.

We could have written eight books.

Then “Why don't we

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Source: lefigaro

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