Our series on mental health in tennis
Anxiety, depression, nervous breakdowns in the middle of a match, early retirement... Since the Covid crisis and a certain freedom of speech, the question of the mental state of tennis players has become central on the professional circuit.
Worn out by travel, pressure, the environment, loneliness, the actors no longer hesitate to open up and describe the daily life of a sport that sometimes makes them unhappy.
Le Parisien offers you, through a series of five episodes, a dive into the question of the mental health of such a particular sport.
1. How Naomi Osaka's depression broke the mental health taboo
2. Couch, naturopathy, Florent course or nothing… to each his own psychiatrist
3. In adolescence, the difficult fight not to "shatter their dreams"
4. "Hey big cow, you've lost again", the scourge of cyberbullying
5. Yannick Noah: “A winning player is a guy who has settled a lot of things in his life”
"You suck at sh...", "I hope you break your leg".
Last week, Gabriel Debru, 16, great hope of French tennis, received his slew of insults on social networks.
His crime?
Having lost a match (7-5, 7-5) in qualifying for the Challenger tournament in Bordeaux when he was leading 5-0 in the second set.
And having lost a few euros to bettors who have taken the sad habit, carefully hidden behind their keyboard, of flooding the screen with a slew of insults, of pouring out their hatred when their woolen socks are empty.
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