Aurélie Sacchelli, Media365, published on Monday September 18, 2023 at 8:43 p.m.
The president of the French Tennis Federation Gilles Moretton revealed to AFP his plan to revive French tennis, in particular by strengthening training.
French tennis is currently going through dull times, with very few tournament victories, an absence that has become almost usual in the second week of the Grand Slams, no player in the Top 30, one player, Caroline Garcia, who has just left the Top 10 (expecting worse when she loses the points from her victory at the 2022 Masters) and who is alone in surviving. While waiting to see the young generation explode at the highest level (Arthur Fils and Luca Van Assche are among the best players under 20, the 14-year-old Russian prodigy Ksenia Efremova has just been naturalized French), the president of the French Federation Gilles Moretton presented a plan this Monday in an interview with the‘AFPaimed in particular at improving training.
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“The priority is to do the right job from the start so that, behind us, we can inherit players ready for the high level. From a very young age, responsibility must be instilled in young people and parents, because everyone must be master of their own project. The ambition to become number 1 is a personal ambition, it cannot be the ambition of the Federation. But this must be worked on from a very young age. It will be educational work, on a daily basis. Ivan Ljubicic, the former player and coach of Roger Federer, recruited at the start of the year as director of the “Ambition 2024” mission, will have to ensure “the transition from junior to senior” by guiding young hopefuls “in the creation of their structure. Arthur Fils “understood this device. He has a team around him, he got off to a very, very good start, he has a coach, Laurent Raymond, who does a remarkable job, and since the beginning of the year, Ivan Ljubicic has been very close to him to play his advisory role,” rejoices the president of the FFT. To guide young players towards performance, two poles will be created: a pole called “Parcours vers le high level”, for 5-15 year olds, placed under the responsibility of DTN Nicolas Escudé, and a “High level” pole, for 16-21 year olds, co-directed by Ljubicic and the high level director at the FFT, Paul-Henri Mathieu. The miracle solution so that Yannick Noah finally has a successor to the Roland-Garros record?
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