2023-12-27 20:43:39
Caroline Garcia Rob Prange / Zuma / Panoramic
SERIE 2/8 – After her very brilliant 2022 season, the Frenchwoman has not confirmed this year. And his tactical options are astonishing.
During the end-of-year holidays, the sports editorial team of Le Figaro brings you a series on the personalities who have annoyed in 2023. For various and varied reasons. Today, Caroline Garcia.
His tremendous end to the 2022 season (semi-final at the US Open and a title at the Masters) had raised the wildest hopes. The 4th in the world was the only credible chance for French tennis to lift a Grand Slam trophy. But nothing happened as planned… Beaten in the round of 16 of the Australian Open (7-6, 6-4) by the Polish Magda Linette, then 45th player in the world, the French tennis leader disappeared from the 2nd round of Roland-Garros and the 3rd of Wimbledon, before sinking in the 1st round of the US Open, a year after coming very close to the coronation in a particular context, it is true (the loss of his grand- mother). Results unworthy of his status and his talent.
In addition to frustrating final defeats against players within her reach in Lyon and Monterrey, she lost seven times in a first round. The Frenchwoman seems more than ever paralyzed by the weight of expectations that her magnificent second part of the 2022 season had aroused and which had seen her go from 76th to 4th place in the world after her triumph at the Masters in Fort Worth, Texas, at autumn, its most beautiful title to date. At 29, Caroline Garcia is experiencing a bad remake of 2018. After a great end to the season in 2017, she was unable to continue the following months. It must be said that physical problems had stopped her in her tracks. In 2023, his body is holding up, it’s his head that is no longer keeping up…
Caroline Garcia, head down Shaun Brooks / Action Plus / Panoramic
The harder the fall will be. She hammers it home: she has found her gaming identity. She will not change it and the work will pay off. Faithful to her game plan, the Lyonnaise constantly attacked her opponents who often “ contented » to wait for too many mistakes from the leader of French tennis. Attacking is good, having a plan B, sometimes too. The return to his side of Bertrand Perret, the coach who The 29-year-old Lyonnaise wants to follow through on his ideas. Respectable but damaging, because the feeling of a big waste continues.
In January, after her disillusionment in Australia, she confided: « I had trouble keeping my emotions in check and to put my game in place and release myself forward. But that’s no real surprise, I struggled to do this in my previous matches and often won by fighting. This is one of the settings I’m less comfortable with. I need to work on it to manage it better. There is the pressure that you put on yourself in relation to what you want to do. Generally, when the ranking goes up, it goes up with it. My own expectations are quite high and maybe I’m shooting myself in the foot. Bruised, she sighed after another failure at Wimbledon: “Tennis makes me experience my biggest and worst emotions at the same time. It’s a constant love/hate relationship.“. Fragile but combative, she suffered and made her fans suffer throughout a frustrating season where she wanted to follow through on her ideas. Even if it means going down with it. To the great frustration of the French public.
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