Alizé Cornet, with courage, punched her ticket for the 3rd round of the US Open and confirmed her brilliant 1st round when she had eliminated the Briton Emma Raducanu, defending champion.
The Niçoise (32) reached, for the first time in her career, the 3rd round of each of the Grand Slam tournaments the same year.
To achieve this, she eliminated the Czech Katerina Siniakova 6-1, 1-6, 6-3 after suffering "
a big pump in the second set when I started to double fault until the end of the match.
I was exhausted, with very little energy.
My hands were shaking, my vision was blurry and I think I'm just wearing myself out at the end of the tour.
I sleep very badly …
“, she confided to The Team.
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Pierre Bouteyre, her former coach, trained Fiona Ferro at Saint-Raphaël when the player was between 15 and 18 years old.
He was indicted on August 18, accused of repeated rape and sexual assault suffered between 2012 and 2015. According to Nice-Matin, Bouteyre "
acknowledges the materiality of the facts but disputes the accusation of rape
" formulated by Fiona Ferro.
Alizé Cornet explained in L'Équipe: "
It's far too serious and serious a subject for me to talk about during the tournament.
It obviously affects me a lot and maybe that's one of the reasons why I don't sleep very well at night.
Obviously I'm sending huge support to Fiona, which I did via text because she's my buddy.
It's terrible, for both of them and especially for Fiona.
He was my coach for ten years so it's not cool to learn that kind of stuff.
But I was already aware so I did not fall too high either.
I have known for a few months (that there is a procedure in progress).
" Alizé Cornet should be heard as a witness and assures: "
I do what I have to do.
As part of the investigation, they ask me and it's not like I can negotiate with the police.
Courage to Fiona.
We are with her, we love her and all the girls in the locker room think of her very much.
I hope she can move on with her life when this is over.
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