The Son Craze

Oh but I see you! Yes you there, on the networks, to say that Son will win all these matches and that he is the greatest hope of French tennis. Let it develop and don't make the same mistakes as with Gasquet.

So let's try, I know it's difficult, to have a less biased view of our Son at all. I could see him in Gstaad against the local Stricker. Let's say that he was a little surprised by the opportunism of the Swiss and that overall, he still made far too many mistakes to be able to pass. I compare him to Tsonga as a kind of tennis player / boxer who puts a lot of energy into his strikes and who needs a real fight to sublimate himself. It is in this sense that his opponent of the day scares me because Dusan Lajovic has bottle. He puts forward a very clean tennis with the cleverness of the land, while remaining very polite and cordial. Arthur will have to find his energy elsewhere than in direct confrontation with his opponent. The positive points for the French are: obviously the physique against a Lajovic who can no longer chain and who is coming out of a big duel against his compatriot Kecmanovic. Then comes his topspin forehand for me which can give him a lot of space and especially one-handed backhand side faults from Lajo. He missed a lot on this side against Kecma who was only playing backhand. And finally, I hope his game intelligence which will make him alternate with the short game. I hope in any case that he will have this lucidity.