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?
Tennis is back and, with it, the twists of fate: in Brisbane, Fiona Ferro takes advantage of Avanesyan's withdrawal to make her return to the circuit, with the Australian Open already in her sights.
Injured, operated on, then relaunched: Fiona Ferro has weathered the storm. Today, she says she is ready to play without fear and challenge the best again, with one motto: enjoy.
Plagued by an endless injury to her left wrist, having fallen beyond 350th in the world rankings, Fiona Ferro nonetheless never gave up, as she states in an interview with L’Équipe.
Eleven French men and ten French women will attempt to reach the main draw of the Australian Open. Between confirmed hopes and awaited comebacks, the French delegation appears ambitious and determined to shine under the Melbourne sun.
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