Never seen before for Stéphane Houdet. The 52-year-old Frenchman experienced an unprecedented sequence on Tuesday on the courts of Roland-Garros. A first in more than fifteen years of career. Opposed to Japan's Takuya Miki, the 17th player in the world fell from his chair because the latter, made of carbon, broke during the first set.
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"Falling from my chair, it has already happened to me, but falling from the chair because it breaks in two in the middle of a match, it's a first, says the triple Paralympic champion in comments reported by L'Equipe. This is proof that wheelchair tennis is a mix of motor sport and tennis. In seven years I have never had the slightest problem and there, the saddle has come off the chassis, it's incredible. The Frenchman lost to the Japanese in the first round (6-4, 6-2) of Roland-Garros on Tuesday.
