Benoît Paire: his break with Shy’m had repercussions all over his life

“What is certain is that as soon as I stop tennis, I will put myself in football. If it’s in Ardziv, so much the better. If it is in another club in Marseille, we will see. The important thing is to continue to have fun.“On April 29, in the daily ProvenceBenoît Paire confirmed that he had signed a amateur license a few weeks ago in Ardziv, Armenian club of the 12th arrondissement of the Marseille city, veterans category. Having become 575th in the world in the ATP ranking of the best tennis players – he was 18th in 2016 – Avignonnais knows that his end of career is approaching and he is preparing it.

This new life will be an opportunity for Benoît to take care of his private life, a difficult project when we constantly travel the planet to play tournaments. Recently questioned by one of his 377,000 Instagram subscribers on his sentimental life, he was transparent, always with humor of course: “Same ravioli (his dog, editor’s note) is looking for me, but still nothing“Replied pair by publishing a photo of his pet. What the sportsman did not specify is that he still remains very marked by her break with the winner of Dance with stars In 2011: Shy’m. In January 2019, Benoît formalized this separation in an interview with the magazine Society : “I am alone“In September 2020, he prefaced the book Out! – crazy and offbeat stories: tennis as you have never read (Hugo Publishing) of the journalist The team Quentin Moynet. The tennis player took the opportunity to engage in confidences.

“The breakup destroyed me, I was still in love. I missed it a lotconfided the Vauclusian. To be honest, I still miss she. I had never been in love at this point. Three years later, I am still able to talk about her with emotion.“Benoît Paire also admitted that this shock had harmed his career:”I couldn’t be alone. I missed some games because I missed my ex too much, I thought of her playing. ” More generally, Benoît admitted to having trouble focusing on his loves and work: “When I like, I give so much that I am not concentrated enough on my career. “ Is it for this reason that his sporting career was so chaotic?

Benoît Paire excluded from the France group at the 2016 Olympic Games

During the Rio Olympic Tournament in 2016, he was eliminated by Italian Fabio Fognini while no member of the French team supervised the meeting. The one who was then 32nd world player had been excluded from the group by his federation. Arnaud Di Pasquale, national technical director, explained on France Télévisions that this decision had been made “After several reframing, many discussions and a lot of breaches of the rules of life. It is unacceptable. It is a lack of respect for his comrades, and the staff (…). There are rules to respect when you are in the French team. We haven’t seen it muchalmost not (…). He shouldn’t come if he is not able to respect the rules. ” In question, probably, An evening spent with Shy’m in full competition While the regulations did not authorize him there.

Five years later, Rebelote: Benoît Paire was deprived of the Tokyo Olympic Games due to behavior deemed “moved” by the French Tennis Federation (FFT). The Federation had little appreciated that, in March 2021 in Buenos Aires, the boiling Provençal Has spit on a disputed brand judged against him by the referee and yelled several swear on. In the process, he had added a provocation on social networks: a screenshot of his page on the ATP website displaying his $ 8.5 million in career gains, accompanied by the comment: “Finally it’s worth a zero.”

Since his two-year story with Shy’m, Benoît Paire has been seen in 2021-2022 with the reality TV candidate The Villa of Broken Hearts 6Julie Bertin. On Instagram, she explained that she had met her during a shooting in a wedding dress in Avignon: “And paf, it made chocapic. Frankly, his madness! Between weird people, we understand each other. Its simplicity, its attention, its protective side and then I will stop there.“For his part, Shy’m became a mother of a little boy named Tahoma and does not hide anything from the complicity she developed with singer Jérémy Frérot. In 2013, on the We Love Tennis website, Benoît confided:“I have always been impulsive to myself. I break my snowshoes. But my nervousness, he is still related to me. It’s against me. ” Now that retirement is approaching, let’s wish to take care of him and his loves.