It’s very simple. Carlos Alcaraz plays Taylor Fritz in the quarter-final at Paris-Bercy, and during his warm-up, on court, he plays a bit of golf. Improvised. He said: “They wouldn’t let me onto the golf course, so I had to bring golf to the tennis court!”
I said it back in January. Not golf specifically, but the spirit: a relaxed champion before a quarter-final is a champion who wins. In ninety percent of cases, and I’m being kind.
Me, in Kitzbühel, in ’92, before my match against a future top 10, I did the same. With a club. Well, with a racket held upside down, it’s the same motion. I hit a ball as far as the car park. Nobody ever filmed me, obviously, they only film the others.
We Love Tennis points out that Alcaraz has a real passion for golf, like Rafael Nadal. That’s exactly what I’ve been saying for years, nobody listens to me: golf is the school of the backhand. One-handed, right? The only real one.
I mentioned it to Céline, who had the nerve to answer.
Jean-Pol, at the Léopold you broke the strip light on court 2 trying to ‘do it like in golf’. That was 2019, not ’92.
Careful, I’m not saying the opposite of what I said. I’m clarifying: in Kitzbühel, there was no strip light.
And I’m clarifying the match too. If Alcaraz wins, it’s the golf. If he loses, it’s that Fritz, who is playing for his Masters qualification, had more to play for. I saw both coming. All right?
It’s true, we checked: We Love Tennis.
