Brutal return to reality for Lucas Pouille. According to information from the Journal du Dimanche, the tennis player was robbed at his home in Rennes (Ille-et-Vilaine) during the Roland-Garros tournament. The facts would have taken place last Friday, June 2, when the player was engaged in mixed doubles with his compatriot Chloé Paquet. A meeting that the two Frenchmen finally lost in three sets against the Canadian-American pair Gabriela Dabrowski-Nathaniel Lammons.
The damage is significant for the native of the North of the France, since according to the information of our colleagues, it would amount to 600,000 euros. The burglars took advantage of the player's absence to steal several jewels and other luxury watches. The Rennes prosecutor's office has seized the investigators of the departmental security of Ille-et-Vilaine, now in charge of investigating the facts.
After thinking about stopping his career, the player, former world number 10 and fallen beyond the 600th place in the ATP ranking, had made the Porte d'Auteuil dream during the qualifications of the Roland-Garros tournament. He had thus passed the three rounds and managed to qualify for the main draw, strongly supported by the Ile-de-France public on Court 14. He then even passed the first round, before losing to Britain's Cameron Norrie (6-1, 6-3, 6-3), the number 14 seed.