After making a lot of noise during the Wimbledon qualifications by fully assuming that he was playing mainly for “the money, the dough”, the Frenchman Maxime Janvier, 225e world, was no match for the 38th ranked player in the first round of the main draw.e mondial, Zhizhen Zhang (7−6, 6–4, 6–2).
Questioned by our colleagues from The Team After the match, the Creil native, true to his reputation as a no-nonsense player, complained in particular about a lack of recognition from the lower-ranked players of which he is one.
“Not much. Today (Monday), I didn’t win any money. That’s a bit of a disappointment for me. I did my best, he was a little bit better than me. We play a bit similarly. I see what I have to work on to try to win a bit more money than that. But it doesn’t do much for me anymore. We’re not treated the same way here as in qualifying. That, I’ll never understand. I can’t change the system. It’s always nicer to be treated better, even if I learned that we have two different locker rooms, one for the seeds, one for the others. Again, I don’t know why. I’m discovering things. Here, we play in a sort of museum, with history.”
Published on Monday, July 1, 2024 at 8:02 p.m.
