(2/5) Vanessa plays tennis with her family: “All I want is to have a good time with my son”

Esprit sport is all this week alongside anonymous athletes! This second episode takes us to one of the tennis courts in Saint-Médard-en-Jalles, a town of 32,500 inhabitants located in Gironde, about fifteen kilometers west of Bordeaux. There, Vanessa, 49, took up the racket and balls a few weeks ago with her son Victor, 23. “We both started again, we had never played together” explains Vanessa. “We said to ourselves that it would be nice to share this moment. So from time to time, we will exchange a few balls. That’s when I realize that he is really better than me but the idea , it’s about having fun, sharing a good time, doing a little sport, obviously and then being together.”

“There’s no performance. All I want is to have a good time with my son, to have fun, to sweat a little. I love it!”

“There’s no competition with my mother. It’s different with friends!”

Victor: “It’s a great time with my mother, there’s no competition when we both play but on the other hand, if I play with friends, it’s not at all the same story. But it’s a very nice moment.”

Vanessa: “My son is a colossus, so he could quickly surpass me in power but I still try to apply myself, take his advice to step up and have even more fun with him.”

Namely:

68% of people declaring themselves to be in good or very good health are regular sports enthusiasts compared to 42% of people declaring themselves to be in poor or very poor health. Source: INJEP, MSJOP, National survey on physical and sporting practices, 2020.