Tennis: at the France pole in Poitiers, “we don’t talk to a girl like we talk to a boy”

It’s nine o’clock and Élise, Lina, Lison and Ninon are already hard at work in the CREPS gymnasium in Poitiers. No time to waste. The four young girls, 12 years old, and Elsa, 11 years old, absent that day, are perhaps the champions that France is waiting for in women’s tennis, the medium term of which promises to be gloomy. Since August 26, the quintet has joined the France pole in Vienne. After a brief attempt at feminization a few years ago, the place only welcomed boys. He thus saw the parade of Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Gilles Simon, Lucas Pouille or Ugo Humbert.