French men’s tennis has been going through a period without results in recent months, and the record on clay is cause for concern.
Benjamin Bonzi fell without even having been able to really fight. The Frenchman had to give up after only five games, Tuesday April 11, against Stefanos Tsitsipas in the second round of the Masters 1000 in Monte-Carlo. With his abandonment, it is the last tricolor representative who left the table of the first important tournament on clay. Already. A bad habit in recent months, especially on clay. Concern is a little more in view of Roland-Garros in a month and a half (from May 22 to June 11).
Already hardly brilliant last season, the first assessment of the Blues after a little more than three months this season does not encourage more optimism. There are no more French players in a position to rise to the height of the seeded Grand Slams, and the results in Majors are felt all the more. The glimmer of hope comes from the blue-white-red youth, with Luca Van Assche and Arthur Fils, both 18, as standards. The two players are among the revelations of the first part of the exercise. Enough to find the Porte d’Auteuil smile?
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