Eliminated in the first round of Wimbledon in the wake of poor results at Roland-Garros, Benoît Paire does not hide living a complicated period.
In an interview with Brut, the one who has chained disappointments this season (four wins, 19 losses) confided in his mind and his depression.
“What is needed is to manage to find the happy medium, to also party, but also to be serious and to prepare well for the tournaments.
That's what I'm having a little more trouble doing right now.
That's why I'm going to start from scratch.
It's been two days since I drank alcohol, I'm in full treatment, he confesses.
I take pleasure when I go to train, when I play with my friends, but coming to a tennis match at the moment…”
"I see shrinks, I see a lot of people to try to understand what is happening to me."
Blows of anger on the ground, anxieties, loss of motivation... @benoitpaire confides in his mind.
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The terrible child of French tennis also spoke of his lack of control when he arrives on the court: "I have a little stress arriving on a court when that's what I liked when I was good. before.
Even without training a lot, I managed to get out of big matches because I liked that, the adrenaline.
I liked the moments of stress and now it has become more and more complicated.
As soon as I am stressed, I get anxious and I panic.
It's difficult because I don't necessarily feel happy in my life, because tennis is complicated”.
“I see shrinks”
In poor form, the Frenchman chained bad matches and was threatened on social networks.
“When we receive messages, already that we are not well, I find that it is the hardest period to receive messages from “haters” and bettors who have lost a bet.
It's not easy to manage.
There are more difficult messages where it is death threats, ”admits Benoît Paire.
But despite everything, the 30-year-old Avignonnais explains that he is trying to climb the slope: “My head, I don't know when it will get better.
It's an injury that can be very long and I hope it will be as short as possible.
I realized that I needed help and that I had to be better on the pitch.
I see shrinks, a lot of people trying to understand what is happening to me.
Alone, I couldn't manage.
I consult a hypnotist, a psychologist.
I have a mental trainer to discuss a lot of things to try to fix that”.
A strong, unvarnished testimony.
