This end of the year has done a lot of good for French Tennis. After a Roland-Garros and Olympic Games disappointing, the Tricolores raised the level for the last edition of the Rolex Paris Masters has Bercy. With five French people in the round of 16 and the presence ofUgo Humbert in the final, his first in a Masters 1000, the Blues finished on a good note. Between the outbreak of Giovanni Mpetshi Perricardconfirmation ofArthur Son and the possibility of seeing Humbert enter the Top 10 in the near future, Ivan Ljubicicdirector of high level at the French Tennis Federation, welcomed these results and remains ambitious.
Video – Ugo Humbert at a press conference in Metz
“We have to make the players responsible”
“For me these are normal results,” he began on the show Return Winner d’Eurosport. “Today it's a little better, it's a long process. But above all, I think that we must empower the players, that they take charge of their own project and that they be ambitious. Ugo Humbert and Arthur Fils, 14th and 20th, that's the starting point, not the goal. There is a lack of a champion who wins a Grand Slam and plays the Masters regularly. (…) The generation we have with Arthur Son, Giovanni, Moses Kouamé even – which I can talk about because we exchange a lot – they are different. They will push 100%, to the maximum, and I hope that they will really reach a very, very high level. In the next four to five years, we will have very positive things for French tennis, just a little more patience. What is important at their age is to continue to progress.“
