Among the seven French people who will play in the second round of the Roland Garros qualifications this Wednesday, Constant Lestienne is undoubtedly the most confusing on the court. No wonder: he is preparing a reconversion of… magician
In place of Marco Cecchinato, we would prepare for all the eccentricities of Constant Lestienne, this Wednesday on the 14 of Roland-Garros. The Picard, 224th in the world, has a fairly varied arsenal of blows: spoon service, retro cushioning, he likes fantasy. Accustomed to the Challenger circuit, Constant Lestienne is the ideal roommate for French people far from their roots. A simple card game and Lestienne will brighten up an evening. A follower of magic tricks each more breathtaking than the next, the Picard is a real attraction and its reconversion is easy. Are we exaggerating? Absolutely not.
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If, during confinement, he did “social” by helping his mother who works in a home help company for the elderly, he especially worked his blows. Pardon his tricks. “I tried to combine sport in the morning and magic in the afternoon, he explains. We had a lot of video conferences between magicians. It’s more than a passion, I’m part of it. of a team, there are eight of us, we work together, we try to create things, to create projects. Maybe after tennis, why not. “
He still has a little time to live some good times on the circuit even if a sore hand almost deprived him of these qualifiers.
An invitation withdrawn four years ago
“I must have played 4-5 times since March so I was quite surprised to win my first round against Australia’s Harris, he said. But I was often used to quickly picking up my marks. . ” The guy is good with racket in hand. “But if I stick 6-1 6-1 to a former semi-finalist at Roland Garros, then I would be impressed,” he laughs. At 28, he has never smelled the smell of a grand slam painting. He must be satisfied with intimate atmospheres. This, in what way, the in camera hardly changes his daily life. The time may have come to sign a sleight of hand that would erase the slate of 2016.
That year, the FFT had granted him a wild card. Which had been withdrawn from him at the last minute because the Tennis Unit Integrity (anti-corruption police, editor’s note) had discovered that Constant Lestienne had emptied his sports betting account by betting the staggering sum of … 2.90 euros on a success of Stan Wawrinka on Novak Djokovic in the 2015 Roland final. In this ill-tasting conjuring trick, 30,000 euros were gone. And the carrier pigeons never brought them back …
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