Apart from cycling, individual outdoor sports, such as tennis and golf, have been stopped since March 16, the date of the entry into force of federal semi-containment. Since then, many freelancers who work as a coach or instructor, have to take their troubles patiently, it seems until May 13 to know the evolution of their situation.
A “huge disappointment”
Tennis circles were disappointed by the latest press conference of the Federal Council, which did not mention the return of certain sports activities: “The disappointment that followed the press conference was huge for us, writes in a press release the Swiss Association of Tennis Teachers (SPTA). It is simply incomprehensible that sport in general, with almost 2 million athletes, was not mentioned at all. ”
580 m2 for two or four people
Jean-Luc Ecuyer, a tennis teacher on the Riviera, is one of those professionals who had to stop their activity. Today, like all his colleagues in Switzerland, he is bitter: “In Roger Federer’s country, not a word about tennis …”, he barely jokes. For him, the practice of the yellow ball is entirely compatible with the safety rules: “We play twenty meters apart. A court is approximately 580 m2 for two people, if we limit ourselves to a single game, or for four people in double. While the guidelines of the Confederation are one person per 10 square meters in a Migros … In addition, it is easy to provide a disinfectant gel to use before entering the courts and, finally, to give up using the locker room for a while. “
In May? In the month of June?
The claims of teachers and Swiss Tennis echo the concerns of another, smaller ball sport. Swiss Golf notes in a statement: “The fact that the concept which regulates individual sports, respectively outdoor sports and which has already been developed, can only be submitted to the Federal Council on May 13, means that a possible relaxation concerning golf and other individual sports could be applied, in the best of cases, in June. “
Better than the garden, sport is health!
Either for golfers or tennis players, these exchanges are too distant and unacceptable. The teachers would like to be able to resume on April 27 at the same time as the garden centers and other garden centers: “Mrs. Simonetta Sommaruga, notes Jean-Luc Ecuyer, justified the opening of the garden centers, saying that it is good for health and morale that the Helvetians can garden. But what about sport? Sport is health!”
Eric Felley
Created: 04.21.2020, 10:37 a.m.
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Jean-Luc Ecuyer has been destroying Swiss tennis in Swiss medias for decades. Anything related to Federer, Wawrinka, Bacsinszky or the Swiss Indoors in Basel has been despised and criticised and blamed and attacked over and over again permanently. Never any positive. Never any support. Obviously this guy thinks he’s more important and achieved more than Roger or Stan or Martina or Patty or Timea and doesn’t seem to understand why he didn’t get the same recognition and fame he thinks he deserves. I remember the newspaper Le Matin, where he obviously has some support, publishing only one comment on their forum after Federer won Wimbledon, a major achievement that was a major event for Swiss tennis and tennis fans in Switzerland. Guess who wrote the comment? Jean-Luc Ecuyer! Negative and despising as usual. Now this newspaper complains about losing readers and asks for government’s support to help them survive but, just like Jean-Luc Ecuyer, they never quit biting the hand that fed them. Roger will survive and so will the News long after Jean-Luc Ecuyer and Le Matin have disappeared. Tennis is fun, hatred is bad. At the end of the day guess who wins?