This Saturday, March 12, Amélie Mauresmo posted an amazing snapshot of her on her Instagram account. Faced with her look and her young age in the photo, the ex-tennis champion did not lack self-mockery in writing the legend.
A leap in time. If she is, since January 2022, the first woman to lead the legendary Roland-Garros tournament, Amelie Mauresmo has come a long way to get here. The former tennis player, now 42, a start his professional career in the late 1990sbefore reaching the top between 2003 and 2006. Of its beginnings, the sportswoman obviously keeps good memories, but also, apparently, some pictures. This Saturday, March 12, she actually shared amazing picture of herdating from ago several decades.
The fulfilled mother of Aaron and Alya appears there on a tennis court, a hand racket, getting ready to hit a ball with a powerful backhand. On the clothing side, she wears the traditional female outfit of her favorite sport : white skirt and pale yellow polo shirt. A big pair of eyeglassesof the kind fashionable in the 1980s, is screwed over her focused eyes, and a short fringe falls on his forehead. Amelie Mauresmo did not lack self-mockery in the caption of his post. “When you sort through your old photos… Who is this person?!“, can we read. In response to a subscriber asking her the age she was in this photo, the ex-champion indicated: “about 15 years old.”
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This image obviously has amused the fans a lot of the new director of Roland-Garros, who had come out in January 1999. Some indeed quickly commented on the publication. “Oh, that’s huge!“, “He is a person with a miraculous setback. For the rest of the photo… no comment“, for example, some Internet users had fun.It really is an old photo! Did you wear glasses?“, “It’s 1st in class“, “There is file lol“, can we also read.
Article written in collaboration with 6Medias.
Photo credits: Jack Tribeca / Bestimage
