Alizé Cornet is writing tennis history this week at Wimbledon as she is playing her 62nd Grand Slam in a row.
The Niçoise equals the record held by Ai Sugiyama and could overtake the Japanese at the US Open (August 29-September 11).
To celebrate this new chapter, the current 37th in the world dominated Tuesday in London in the first round the Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 6-3, 7-6 (7/5).
“It's a pride of course
, she breathed.
It is a sacred proof of my longevity.
It doesn't make me feel very young but when I see myself running on the field, I tell myself that my legs still have a certain freshness
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A reconversion, as obvious for the one who has written diaries and poems since childhood.
This great reader realized her dream at the beginning of May with the release by Flammarion of her first novel
La Valse des jours
which tells...
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