As part of the agreement between the FFT and the Australian federation, one French player and one French player benefit from a wild card each year. For the next edition of the tournament, the two invitations will go to Lucas Van Assche and Diane Parry.
Lucas Van Assche and Diane Parry are the lucky ones of the day. The two Frenchmen, aged 18 and 20 respectively, are guaranteed to participate in the next Australian Open (from 16 to 29 January) without having to win a ticket through the qualifiers. Van Assche and Parry will indeed be part of the final draw, along with all the best players on the planet. The two French hopefuls will both benefit from the wild cards awarded by the Australian Federation under the agreement that the federation links to the French Tennis Federation (FFT) and allows, by reciprocity, an Australian player and an Australian player to take turns receiving two invitations to the final Roland-Garros draw each season as part of the same exchange of good practices. Released from the last edition by the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, Parry will play the Australian Open for the second time in his young career. For Van Assche, on the other hand, it will be a great first time. The 137th in the world in the current ranking (he was 503rd at the beginning of the year) has never played in a Grand Slam tournament.
“Logic”, for Escudé
An award that the player born in Belgium and coached by Yannick Quéré owes in particular to his first career title, last month during the Challenger tournament in Maia (Portugal). Parry, for his part, had made an impression this season by reaching the 3rd round at Roland-Garros as well as at Wimbledon. In Paris she even dared to knock down the winner of the previous edition Barbora Krejcikova. For Nicolas Escudé, national technical director, interviewed on the FFF website, the two players really deserve these two wild cards. “Luca is finishing the season very well and his progress in 2022 is impressive. He is now at the door of the Top 100, it is logical that he has benefited from this invitation. Diane had her best Grand Slam performance this year and won her first match in the Billie Jean King Cup with the French team. »
