When it is pointed out to Frédéric Fontang that the 2022 final of the Swiss Indoors will oppose two young French-trained, the coach of Felix Auger-Aliassime bursts out laughing. “That’s right, Holger (Rune) is coached by Patrick (Mouratoglou) … Gilles Cervara, Daniil Medvedev’s coach who is in the final in Vienna, can also be added to this list ”, recalls the person who brought Jérémy Chardy into the World Top 50 before working for the Canadian Federation.
“I know better than anyone that nothing is certain”
We complete the list by indicating that Denis Shapovalov, finalist in Vienna, is also a product of Tennis Canada, passed into the hands of Frenchman Louis Borfiga and Mulhousien Guillaume Marx, now “head of performance” of the Atlantic overseas federation.
“In France, the technicality, the know-how and the means are there”, resumes Frédéric Fontang, who guesses the question …
