For French tennis, the past is a base, a showcase, a force and a weight.
Tradition offers prestige but allows cumbersome comparisons to grow like weeds.
Although Roland-Garros has - almost - completed its transformation launched in 2011 with the extension and modernization of the stadium, behind the scenes a project is mobilizing attention and energy: training to enable a French school that was once celebrated, copied, to conjugate all the time.
"It's a beautiful house but last year, after a complicated Roland-Garros, we were attacked from all sides: there is no one left, where are the players, what is behind this generation? -he?"
, recalls, during an exchange with some journalists, Nicolas Escudé, the national technical director (DTN) of French tennis since March 11, 2021.
And to add:
“The state of French tennis was catastrophic”
;
a bad patch illustrated by the shipwreck at Roland-Garros last year.
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