Making of L’Équipe: Rafael Nadal told by Julien Reboullet

Behind the scenes of The Team A little over three years ago, L’Équipe published a series of testimonials entitled “Making Of“, in which its reporters recounted their relationship with some of the greatest champions or clubs of the time. Julien Reboullet, senior reporter for the tennis section, gave his story of fifteen years working alongside […]

Rafael Nadal, this left-hander who mistreats left-handers

A pioneer of neurological research in the 20th century, Henri Hécaen was a Breton psychiatrist passionate about the study of left-handers. After having swept away old smoky theories which advanced that the proportion of left-handed people, among “arrears”, was higher than that present in the “normal population”, he explained, in a book published in 1984 […]

Rafael Nadal: ‘No player is more important than the tournament’

“How are you feeling after contracting COVID in Abu Dhabi on December 20? I was very ill. The feelings were not good during these seven days, especially the first four days which were very hard. But since then, I’m getting better every day. If you had told me I was going to be in this […]