On September 23 in London, the tennis world wept bitterly with Roger Federer putting away his rackets and preparing to leave a shadow, a style, an era.
The tears barely had time to dry on the cheeks of the spectators, when, in Paris, the last stage of the Masters 1000, in the quivering of autumn, the sensation of a change of era was felt.
Among the quarter-finalists (23 years old on average), Novak Djokovic (35 years old) was an exception (like a top 20 which only lists four thirty-somethings).
The prize for youth goes jointly to the two youngest in the top 100, Carlos Alcaraz and Holger Rune (19 years old).
Caught up in the light
By dint of a competitiveness resistant to the ravages of time to exhaust records with its crowned heads, tennis had forgotten that it could innovate.
In Paris, Rune unbolted five players from the top 10 (better than David Nalbandian in Madrid in 2007 and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in Montreal in 2014) to pose with the…
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