“TWhat area are you targeting? You want to play moving forward.” Lisandru Rodriguez, coach of the Costa Verde Tennis Clubhas a barely dark look. Barely because it is aimed at Lola Tremellat, 13 years old, club nugget, currently ranked in the eight best French girls of her age.
The young girl doesn't flinch, doesn't look for excuses for her bad ball and hits the one that comes next even harder. Ponytail, freckles, almost six feet tall, Lola is already giving off a form of ease and real powerespecially on his forehand.
In this autumn morning, between the guazza on the club chairs and the shy sleep, the silence of the place is just punctuated by the exchange between the player and her coach. Tick tock punctuated by the coach's advice. Under the eyes of the mother, Marie, and the president of the club, Antoine Rioli: “EHe is in the process of reaching a small milestone, he says. Coming back to Corsica, finding his cocoon, did him good.“Because Lola lived the year 2023/2024 at the France pole in Poitiers, the same one through which her coach passed. Ten intense, rich months, even if she did not stay there.
“His first ITF near Bordeaux!”
Proof of her new maturity, she landed in mid-October, at Grau du Roi, his ticket for the qualifying table of the Petits As tournamentinternational reference for under-14s. A huge step.
A few days before, she had reached the final of the Catalan Open in doubles. “She needs to matchexplains his mother. And paradoxically, having returned to Corsica also allows her to have a little more freedom to go to tournaments. She received a wild card for the ITF tournament in Bouscat near Bordeaux last weekend. She entered through the qualifying draw and it was her first ITF, which is great. “After a first victory 6/3 6/3 against a Romanian player, Lola lost sharply on Sunday against the Italian Arianna Celle 6/0 6/0.
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