NARRATIVE – As the tournament celebrates its last edition in eastern Paris, major players share anecdotes and memories.
There is nostalgia in the air conditioning of the Accor Arena this week. The Rolex Paris Masters, located since 1986 in the Bercy district, is experiencing its final hours. Since Boris Becker’s inaugural coronation, what has long been called the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy, inaugurated in 1984, was the scene of the second biggest event in French tennis behind Roland-Garros. The French Tennis Federation (FFT), owner of the tournament, has chosen Paris La Défense Arena, 40,000 seats (in concert configuration) to host the event from 2025.
If Paris has often been tragic in recent years for French players on the Porte d’Auteuil side, it has often been magical on the eastern side of Paris with the best results in a Masters 1000, the second most important category of tournaments. behind the Grand Slams. The POPB, renamed since 2015, vibrated with blue “perfs”. Three coronations (Guy Forget 1991, Sébastien…
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