Roland-Garros: Moutet and Monfils crack… and you can hear it!
Without an audience, players' reactions at Roland Garros become perfectly audible. On Monday, the French Corentin Moutet and Gaël Monfils offered a few nuggets.
This is surely one of the only advantages of the almost closed-door imposed at Roland Garros: you can hear everything on the pitch. ...
Roland-Garros: when tennis is depressed
If the players are obviously happy to be able to play tennis again since mid-August, the constraints related to Covid-19 influence their morale. They can't wait to get back to their former life. Where their job was a celebration, sharing and emotions.
Most of the players who...
Roland-Garros: Clara Burel’s tears after her victory at 0h10
It was in the dead of night that the French Clara Burel obtained her qualification for the 2e Roland-Garros round at the expense of the Dutch Arantxa Rus (6-7, 7-6, 6-3).
This is one of the novelties of this Roland-Garros 2020. Shifted from spring to autumn because of the...
Roland-Garros: hecatomb for the French, everything smiles on the favorites …
From the sad disappointment of Gaël Monfils to the terrible elimination of Corentin Moutet, who surrendered after more than six hours of play, the French were not at the party this Monday at Roland Garros. Only a handful of players, led by the young dad Pierre-Hugues Herbert, was able to pull out of the game to support the favorites in the second round.
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Roland-Garros: Monfils “played badly and badly managed the moment”
French number 1, Gaël Monfils was eliminated in the first round of Roland-Garros on Monday by the Kazakh Alexander Bublik (6-4, 7-5, 3-6, 6-3). He is going through a bad time with three eliminations from his entry in the running in three tournaments.
Gaël Monfils struggled to find...
NBA: a Miami-LA Lakers final
Miami qualified for the sixth NBA Finals in its history, Sunday by eliminating Boston. The Heat will challenge the Los Angeles Lakers, from its former star LeBron James.
Miami will challenge the Los Angelers Lakers in the NBA Finals after eliminating the Boston Celtics (4-2) in the...
Roland-Garros: Herbert “undefeated as a father”
Young dad, since last week, the French Pierre-Hugues Herbert won his qualification for the second round of Roland-Garros on Monday.
This is the first victory for "P2H" since he is a father of little Harper. Pierre-Hugues Herbert easily qualified on Monday for the second round of Roland...
Roland-Garros: Stress, trauma … how the bubble can make players crack
Since the resumption of tournaments and championships, the health bubble imagined to preserve competition has also put the mental health of top athletes to the test. In tennis, the phenomenon is striking, as we will still be able to see at Roland-Garros. And calls for awareness.
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Roland-Garros: Nelson Monfort causes the interruption of a match … by speaking too loud
Surprising scene this Sunday at Roland Garros. The game between John Isner and Elliot Benchetrit was interrupted for a few moments. At issue: the famous journalist Nelson Monfort was live on France Televisions and annoyed the players by speaking too loudly, perched at the top of a terrace overlooking the court.
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Roland-Garros: wind, rain … Goffin not convinced by the roof of the Central
Belgian David Goffin felt the wind and humidity on the center court at Roland Garros on Sunday despite the new roof deployed.
David Goffin would have done well without this "honor". The Belgian became the first prestigious seed (No. 11) to be eliminated at Roland Garros on...
