Nbones “Four musketeers” of the racket – René Lacoste, Henri Cochet, Jean Borotra and Jacques Brugnon – would be very moved. Near the Porte d’Auteuil, in Paris, there will now be not one, but two Roland-Garros tournaments each year. This time, Rafael Nadal will not be on the bill. From July 11 to 17, he gives up his favorite playground: France, land of tennis, welcomes the best players in the padel world. Padel, which should not be confused with paddle, a water sport, is a derivative of tennis and squash, born in Mexico in the 1970s and widely practiced in Argentina since the 2000s.
The competition ahead promises to be tough. Especially behind the scenes. The TVs are engaged in an explosive match in order to snatch, for several hundred thousand…
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