On Saturday, May 27, the Parisian Grand Slam celebrated the forty years of Yannick Noah's victory. Sunday, May 28, Roland-Garros celebrated its golden wedding with the French bank. To mark the occasion, the godmothers and sponsors of its commitment projects were gathered at Porte d'Auteuil. Presenters included Justine Henin, Félix Auger-Aliassime and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.
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- Roland Garros Men's Singles
- Roland Garros Women's Singles
In recent years, impact actions have become a priority for the tournament's main partner, such as support for young players or the humanitarian development program driven by Canadian tennis player Félix Auger-Aliassime; For each point earned, the player, currently 9th in the world, pays 5 dollars, and the bank, 15. That is $20 per point, for education and the protection of children's rights in Togo.
The "BNP Paribas Young Talents" programme, created in 2018, which now supports 160 start-ups in world tennis (France, Belgium, United States, Italy, Canada, Poland) in a dual sporting and educational challenge, in the company of sponsors such as Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, John McEnroe and Justine Henin. The latter has been working since last year in collaboration with the "Team BNP Paribas Jeunes Talents" program within its academy in Limelette
This program provides, in particular, sports and non-sporting support intended to optimize the chances of selected young players. "The results are extremely positive," says the former world number one, four-time winner of Porte d'Auteuil. Accompanying young people within the academy, I have been doing it for fifteen years. It is a work on which we have hindsight, experience. Since Carlos Rodriguez (his former coach) returned, we have found a new dimension within the Academy. With the strengthening of our young talent program and the support of BNP Paribas, this changes a lot of things. This creates emulation. Because the young people who are not yet in the team, want to go back. We work a lot on attitude, behavior, state of mind in relation to the tennis project, but really working on the development of the person before working on the development of the player.
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