Gilles Simon is the French tennis player of the moment, not for his racket and ball results, but for those made with pen and paper. His autobiography has achieved great success thanks to a very massive and well-crafted advertising campaign in which French tennis players revealed some tasty previews of his early literary endeavors.
Important, complex topics that are sure to lead to discussion in the book by Gillou, who recently published some statements about French tennis and its youngest players, which were published in We love Tennis Magazine.
In particular, Simon spoke of this generation of French tennis players that he himself belonged to, and the media and fans dubbed them “the 4 Musketeers” A united and talented group consisting of Simon, Tsonga, Monfils and Gasquet but never winners of slam Testing.
“The time was complicated and Jo (Wilfried Tsonga) wasn’t that far from the greats, but there was always one of the top 4 who played against him. It’s also not surprising that Jo was the one with the most aggressive tennis and a forward bias, as this attacking discourse is best suited for his game, and so is his temperament.
If you ask Gaël Monfils to play as Jo you will see what he will answer. Winning is not a positional problem. Playing 3 meters behind the line is fine, Rafael Nadal does it a lot. He has won 20 Grand Slam titles so far.
“Staying on the technical-tactical theme, Simon commented on a specific question about the rumors attributing a lack of real talent to French tennis necessary to best compete and win the most prestigious tournaments.
“The champion can hide behind anyone,” says Simon
“In my opinion this is of course completely counterproductive. This discourse has no reason to exist anymore and yet I still hear it.
There is talent everywhere, all players are different. We no longer need to impose patterns or any form of ideology. I also want French players to win Grand Slam tournaments.
When I look at the champions who have made history lately, they don’t all have the same profiles, on the contrary, I like that. There are few game similarities between Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, and that is what makes tennis so successful. “- concluded the French tennis player.
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