"50 million Noah": the headline of the sports daily L'Équipe on Saturday, June 4 - at the time the newspaper did not appear on Sunday - the day before the men's final, is commensurate with the event. The last round of Roland-Garros sees the Frenchman Yannick Noah (23) face the Swede Mats Wilander (18), defending champion. In 1983, the popularity of tennis was at its peak: the Swede Björn Borg totally rewrote the history of modern tennis by dominating his opponents - the Argentine Guillermo Vilas, the Americans Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe or Vitas Gerulaitis - between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s. For its part, television, which has taken the measure of the public's enthusiasm for this game, is offering more and more matches on the screens.
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