LE SCAN SPORT – Born in Russia, then naturalized French, the former tennis player Alexandre Sidorenko denounces a media treatment too much in favor of Ukraine for his taste.
A native of Saint Petersburg, Alexandre Sidorenko has lived in France since he was four years old. He then obtained French naturalization at the age of 12 and then participated in tournaments as a “Blue”. At 34, he now lives between the Paris region and Normandy, explains West France . It is to our colleagues that “Sido” positioned himself on the invasion of Russia in Ukraine.
Among our colleagues, Alexandre Sidorenko complains of too biased media treatment, without binarity. The native Russian accuses the French media of leaning in favor of Ukraine. “The media treatment is radical, anti-Russian, without any counterpart, assures the former tennis player. I find this type of misinformation incorrect and unfair. There is a real bias, you have to receive information from both sides.»
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“True things are said but also a lot of lies”
Faced with this “bias“, Alexandre Sidorenko assures that he does not feel “very well». Great hope of world tennis, “Sido” won the junior Australian Open in 2006, earning at the same time the status of world number 3 among young people. But in the pros, he struggled to confirm. Only two participations in Grand Slam tournaments in singles, he did not do better than an eighth final at Porte d’Auteuil in doubles in 2009. He has never done better than 145th in the world rankings ATP.
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The one who stopped his career in 2017, at the age of 29, insists on the media bias. “True things are said, but also many lies. Of course, by dint of repeating a radical speech to people, they form an opinion and then find it difficult to believe the opposite.»
