At Roland-Garros,
After the women's final, the Philippe-Chatrier spectators almost all stayed to watch the men's doubles final.
Those present are always right.
And they gave voice to support the tricolor duo.
The "
go to the Blues
", "
go to the Blues
Have echoed throughout this bitter fight. The Kazakhes nevertheless served for the match at 5-4 in the second set but the tricolor duo demonstrated resilience to win their fifth Grand Slam, consolidating their status as the best doubles pair in the history of French tennis. As survivors. In the previous round, the French had thus overcome the Colombian pair Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah, seeded 2, after three sets and three match points saved. All in a Davis Cup atmosphere, an event dear to the duo. “
This match was only happiness,
had whispered Nicolas Mahut.
When I got back onto the court, I had chills. People carried us, it was exceptional. In the end, I forgot that we had saved match points. Everyone was on their feet. We held back but we wanted to cry.
"
Mahut's tears
This time the Angevin did not hold back his tears, overtaken by emotions before lifting with his accomplice his second trophy at Roland Garros. Pierre-Hugues Herbert also shed a few tears when he turned to his clan and his son Harper. "
We feel richer when we have a child
He breathed.
When the trophies were handed over, the audience sang the Marseillaise to their hearts and Mahut burst into tears.
This new victory for the duo offers a nice patch of blue sky in the gloomy weather of French tennis.
“Federer will retire before me.
Okay, that'll make a little more noise than mine.
"
Nicolas mahut
At 39, Mahut is still running. On the sidelines of an interview with Le Figaro at the end of last season to discuss the ten years of his historic defeat against John Isner at Wimbledon, the longest match in history, Angevin had confided: “
Today all my programming is focused on the doubles and around the Tokyo Olympics which remain the ultimate goal, the only great title that we miss. And then in our sport we are lucky to have previously big meetings like the Grand Slams.
“Roland-Garros is one, obviously. And the duo was full of confidence before Tokyo. With the desire to erase bad memories. “
In Rio in 2016 we missed it
(defeat in the first round).
Yet we had great results before
. " If, Mahut, recognizes that with age, "
it is sometimes harder in training at eight in the morning
", the desire is still there. Which makes him say smiles on his lips. “
Federer will retire before me. Okay, that'll make a little more noise than mine.
"