🎾 theipaper’s sports news correspondent jamesgraysport spent nearly 12 hours on Paris’s biggest court to try and work out why it’s such a hostile environment ⬇️
: Another mark controversy, and then one over a first serve, and now the crowd are in full voice. There is a French player involved, of course, but perhaps also we have had just the right amount of sun and 1664 lager to create a more rowdy atmosphere.: More booing as a Jabeur backhand hits the top of the net and drops dead for a winner to break serve. Even as Jabeur walks to her chair after winning the game, she is jeered by the crowd. That’s just silly.
“The most tricky thing was during the match is not to get involved with them because as soon as you react to what they’re doing, it’s going to get heated. That’s what happened with other players. I know they [the crowd] will try anything to get me out of the match.”: I wander onto the concourse and chat to some fans. A Parisian named Jean-Luc has, like me, spent the whole day on Chatrier . Did he boo Ons’s net cord?“Everyone else was booing.
. He did not opt for the Jabeur approach, but rather the polar opposite, holding his fingers to his lips and shushing the crowd unrepentantly after completing a four-set win to knock out the last Frenchman standing. He even did it in his post-match interview on court. Earlier in the week, Coco Gauff took the opposite approach. “I love the French people,” she said. “I know some people don’t like you guys, but I love you guys.”: I am wandering home and wondering what I have learned from my day with the booers? Firstly, Chatrier – with its endless corporate boxes – is far less hostile than Suzanne Lenglen, which only holds 5,000 fans fewer and even the front row seats are available for a relatively low price.
Secondly, it has almost become a reason to come to the tennis, to boo, to whistle, to sing, to cheer. Does it overstep the mark? Very rarely, and most of the time it is a glorified pantomime. If you want to play the villain, Parisians will oblige. If you want to play the hero, all you have to do is ask.Topics
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