Roland-Garros: do players abuse pee breaks or physiotherapy?

2023-05-31 10:53:27

“I think today’s players have smaller bladders…” Yannick Noah still has a sense of the winning volley. The last French winner of a Grand Slam (Roland-Garros 1983) prefers to answer with a joke when asked about the subject of repeated breaks in tennis. Or when some strive to make bladders look like lanterns by multiplying physio stops and toilet trips in order to save time or try to reverse the negative dynamics of a match. “From minimal until my last match, I never wanted to pee on the court, launches the former captain of the France Davis Cup team. You sweat, you pee before…”