This is not the metaverse, but the Arena of Metz. This Thursday afternoon, in the silence of a Moselle Open still under construction, two men hit the ball. One is called Yunchaokete Bu, is 74th in the world and barely five weeks ago faced world number 1 Jannik Sinner in the semi-final of the Beijing tournament. The other is from Moselle, passed his baccalaureate barely four months ago three kilometers as the crow flies from the Arènes and discovered, at 18, this new world which could be his in a few years.
Recipient of an invitation for the qualifications, Théo…