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Pupils from Villiers-le-Bel introduced to tennis on the courts of Roland-Garros
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Russian Andrey Rublev faces Argentinian Federico Delbonis at Roland Garrors on Thursday May 26, 2022 in Paris.
(Illustration) AP - Thibault Camus
By: Hugo Moissonnier
Paris is currently hosting the greatest tennis players in the world at Roland-Garros.
An event sometimes caricatured and a sport often presented as "that of the rich".
A cliché that dies hard, but the reality is perhaps more nuanced.
On the courts, pupils from a primary school in Villiers-le-Bel from a popular district of the Paris region have recently been introduced to the little yellow ball.
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