Nothing is going well for Benoît Paire.
The Avignon resident is having a hard time evolving on the circuit under Covid-19.
Sweet understatement.
"Whether I win or lose, I really don't care."
Freewheeling, Pair, a rather endearing and sympathetic boy, off the courts, sometimes despairing of it, worries a little about his mental state, if we refer to his last media outings.
His South American tour is a total fiasco.
The worst of the worst of what he offers since the resumption of the circuit last August.
The Avignon player has only two small victories for twelve defeats out of the fourteen games he has played.
The strict confinements he had to undergo in New York during the US Open and in Melbourne during the Australian Open, did not help anything.
He wanted to go to South America to escape the strict restrictions that weighed on him.
There, he was indeed able to party.
He posted a video last week in a South American nightclub.
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This time as a sad clown, he preferred to evoke his spleen on the life of the circuit in the Covid-19 era.
“I'm going to talk about the ATP Tour which has become sad, boring and ridiculous,” he posted on Instagram on Thursday night after a stiff first-round loss to a 17-year-old, 410th in the world.
I know, you're going to say, 'Don't you realize how lucky you are blah-blah-blah.' But playing in closed stadiums, without any atmosphere, that's not why I play tennis.
Having to stay either at the hotel or at the tennis club and be prohibited from going out on pain of exclusion and a fine ... Where is the pleasure of traveling?
For me, playing tennis has become a tasteless job. "
In recent weeks, his caricature now too often takes over the tennis player.
His outings are even sometimes indecent.
After an outrageous defeat in Buenos Aires, where he got angry with the referee, spitting on the court and swinging the last set, the Avignon has posted the amount of his winnings on twitter since he has been on the circuit, by specifying that for a player who was zero, it was ultimately not so bad, while giving his detractors a middle finger.
Classroom…
In the end it's worth it to suck pic.twitter.com/PbWsGQLa1A
- pair benoit (@benoitpaire) March 4, 2021
And Pair is hardly a paradox.
Nick Kyrgios, another flayed alive, has chosen not to travel in these uncertain times of pandemic.
While Gilles Simon decided to take a break because "the heart was no longer there to travel and play in these conditions", while another very sensitive like Gaël Monfils is not on his plate either. in this very particular context, and also put himself on pause, Paire, him, chooses to continue to play.
“It takes time for me to adapt to this pseudo ATP circuit but I will make the effort to try to just find the pleasure of playing tennis.
I'm not talking about results, I'm going to go play Acapulco and Miami after a lot of thinking, and my goal will just be to smile on the field and enjoy it, kick a ball.
Whether I win or lose I really don't care. "
The question remains: Why not take a break then?
For a few dollars more obviously ...
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