How OL missed Sardar Azmoun, new recruit from Bayer Leverkusen
Everyone at OL, and Peter Bosz in mind, still believed this Friday in the arrival of Sardar Azmoun this winter. The Iranian striker from Zénith Saint-Petersburg, a priority for the Dutch technician and already close to joining Lyon last summer, had resumed contact with the Rhone leaders at the end of last year. During a […]
Interview with Maxime Cressy, the American of French origin adept at serve and volley: “Getting inside the opponent’s head”
A strange Franco-American phenomenon is taking hold on the tennis world. Finalist against Rafael Nadal (7-6, 6-3) for the ATP 250 tournament in Melbourne, Maxime Cressy eliminated John Isner on Tuesday during a 4:10 marathon (7-6, 7-5, 6- 7, 6-7, 6-4) dotted with 70 aces in total. The score is a first indication of the […]
The Australian Open and the Djokovic affair: a sad farce
While ruminating in detention for an additional night at the infamous Park Hotel, Novak Djokovic is now erected as public enemy No. 1 of Australian health policy. Even if there is no lack of it – on the tennis court – it is to lend him far too many superpowers of destruction. Fortunately, not many […]
Lucas Pouille before the Australian Open: “I no longer have the right to waste time”
In the x-ray of French tennis in crisis that we published in December, Lucas Pouille was paired with Caroline Garcia, like the representatives of a generation that is no longer where it was expected. Top 10 in March 2018, semi-finalist of the Australian Open the following year, the Northerner (27) suffered from multiple injuries including […]