Spectacle, suspense, and tricolor pride: Team France has taken the lead at the Bourg-de-Péage Open thanks to a fit Mannarino and a resurgent Halys. Before the entry of the Monfils–Svitolina couple, the tension rises a notch.
Team France reinvents itself at Bourg-de-Péage after several withdrawals. Chloé Paquet joins Monfils, Mannarino, Halys, and Svitolina for a weekend focused on entertainment.
After more than a month away from the courts, Elsa Jacquemot rediscovered the taste of victory in Limoges. Seeded number 2, the Frenchwoman prevailed against Chloé Paquet in an all-French duel, before aiming higher against Gabriela Knutson.
Chloé Paquet's defeat to Dominika Salkova sealed the fate of the French players in Angers. There will be no French players in the quarterfinals in Maine-et-Loire.
The term Fan Week is increasingly popular in sports. Aimed at energizing tennis and making it attractive in everyone’s eyes, this event—now indispensable at certain major tournaments—is enjoying growing success.
Long regarded as a simple appetizer before the main show, qualifying week has now established itself as an event in its own right. Between raw emotions, spectacular innovations, and record attendance, Opening Week is shaking up the codes of world tennis.
In 1973, Billie Jean King did far more than beat Bobby Riggs: she toppled a symbol. Five decades later, the “Battle of the Sexes” is reborn between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios, but this time, the battle seems to have lost its soul.
Social networks have opened an unprecedented era for tennis: one in which notoriety is built as much on the court as on Instagram. But how far can this quest for visibility go without shaking the players’ balance?
