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Posté le: 25.01.2013, 14:14:12 Sujet du message: RG dans la revue fédérale Tennis info
Recevant la revue officielle de la fédération depuis plusieurs décennies, j'ai souvent fait un petit commentaire dans "revue de presse".
Durant l'année 2013, je vais relever ce que l'on écrit sur Richard et le nombre de photos où on le voit dans la revue.
JANVIER FEVRIER 2013
60 pages en couleur
Une photo de Richard en train de servir, seul, dans le flash back de l'année 2012 (page 43) avec le texte suivant :
"Pour la troisième fois de sa carrière, Richard GASQUET se hisse en finale d'un tournoi estampillé ATP Masters 1000. A Toronto, il échoue en finale face à Novak Djokovic. Sur sa lancée de la médaille olympique, "Ritchie a notamment battu Tomas Berdych et John isner au Canada."
Il apparait aussi dans 2 photos de groupe, avec la médaille olympique au cou.
Rien sur sa victoire à Bangkok ni à Doha.
A noter la part relative des différents joueurs français dans la revue à partir du nombre de photos où chaque joueur apparait.
Ceci me semble assez significatif de la proportion habituelle faite à chaque joueur (sauf Monfils)
15 photos de Tsonga
9 photos de Llodra
8 photos de Benneteau
3 photos de Simon et Gasquet
2 photos de Monfils et Ouanna
1 photo de Rufin, Gicquel, PHM...
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Posté le: 25.01.2013, 15:15:40 Sujet du message:
Voilà, c'est ce que j'ai écrit en 2008 sur le fil "encouragements". Désolée pour l'anglais, mais c'est la réponsé parfaite à la négligence de Richard de cette revue:
Citation:
Asylum in Austria!
Dear Richard, If you one day decide that the French tennis officials are too embarrassing, the French media too harsh and the French crowds too demanding - I have a solution: Take asylum in Austria, not political, but sportive.
Currently the Austrian players are
No 62 Koubek (right now in hospital) 31 years old
No 86 Melzer 27 years old
No 138 Eschauer 34 years old
So even if you drop out of the Top Ten (quel horreur!) or the Top 50 (quelle honte!), you will still be by far the best player which would guarantee you a selection for Davis Cup. But no worries, nobody would expect you to win it, if you contribute to keep Austria in the world group, everything would be fine. But don't take things too lightly, with the quality of your team-mates even this would be a challenge worthy of your talent. From all one can read, the Austrian DC-captain is a nice chap. He does not talk much.
The Austrian crowds are easy to handle. If they happen to know what tennis is, they would not expect anything from you as the only thing they are interested in is football and skiing. The rest of sports is non-existant. So you can be assured no fans would bother you at tournaments with signatures or pictures, you would go totally unnoticed with the exception of me wishing you well occasionally.
The Austrian journalists are a mirror of the crowds. The risk that they know about tennis is low, and they certainly would not write about you in the papers. There would be no TV-coverage of any of the tournaments you play, with the exception of the DC-Cup ties, which we already spoke about.
I am a little lost about the officials of the federation, as they are hardly ever seen anywhere, but I am rather convinced that they will leave you alone. This implies of course also bad training facilities, no paid coach, etc.
That was it about the sportive side of your asylum. As for the human side of it: Vienna is not Paris, but actually not a bad place to live in. And in contrast to its reputation, the city is not only a place for retired pensioneers, there is quite a scenery of urban life.
There is no risk of getting homesick. The newsstands have the most important French papers, there are even a few French restaurants (even if the quality of the food needs improvement), there is a French cinema and a French TV-programme easily available on cable. The mobile phone network is well established and internet is widely used. German is a hard language to learn though, but as you won't be bothered by press-conferences and interviews, there is enough time left to learn it, even if there is no real need. Broken English will do.
So all in all, I can see nothing but advantages. Your country of asylum awaits you.
PS: There is just one disadvantage - One day, when you will have won a Grand Slam tournament and they will play the Austrian national anthem for you, you might regret it, as the Marseillaise is so much more beautiful.
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