Naomi Osaka, one of the favorites of the Roland Garros tournament, has announced that she will not participate in the mandatory press conferences.

She says she wants to preserve her sanity in this way.

Roland-Garros which begins this Sunday and whose first matches will be broadcast on France Télévisions.

Alexandra Lamy will soon shoot her first fiction film for TF1.

The actress goes behind the camera to adapt a comic entitled “Touchées”, it is the story of women victims of violence who rebuild themselves thanks to fencing.

"La Grande Librairie" on France 5 tops a survey published by Livres Hebdo.

A survey of booksellers.

97% of them cite the program presented by François Busnel.

On the front page, the media boycotted at Roland Garros. 

Boycotted by one of the best players in the world, one of the tournament's favorites, Naomi Osaka.

The Japanese announced yesterday that she would not participate in press conferences, which is however mandatory.

It is therefore exposed to heavy fines, it is aware of it and it assumes.

She says she wants to preserve her sanity in this way.

She explains that she can't stand being asked the same questions that sometimes make her doubt.

These statements angered the organizer of the competition, the French Tennis Federation.

“This is a phenomenal error and unacceptable behavior” said its president, Gilles Moretton.

Roland-Garros which begins this Sunday and whose first matches will be broadcast on France Télévisions.

And first bullets from 11 am on the public service channels ... This is one of the novelties this year. The broadcast of the competition begins four hours earlier than in the last edition. Another novelty is the arrival of Julien Benneteau in the team of consultants. The former player, winner in doubles, at Roland Garros, joins Mary Pierce, Justine Hénin, Sébastien Grosjean and Michaël Llodra. Julien Benneteau, who will be seen in particular with the host Laurent Luyat, in the studio, installed on the terrace of the central court, the Philippe-Chatrier court. Comments Fabien Lévêque, Matthieu Lartot, Benoît Durand and Inès Lagdiri. At the edge of the courts, Cécile Grès and Nelson Monfort.So much for the team that you will meet every day except for the matches which will be played on the Simonne-Mathieu court and for those which will take place in the evening on the Philippe-Chatrier court. There, it is the American giant Amazon which will distribute them exclusively. Roland-Garros to follow also on Europe 1, official radio of the tournament.

A doomed production company.

ALP, which produces Koh Lanta in particular, was condemned for “inexcusable fault” by the Versailles court of appeal on Thursday.

She must pay 120,000 euros in damages to the family of a cameraman, Laurent Sbasnik, who died six years ago on the set of “Dropped”, an adventure game produced by ALP.

This cameraman was one of 10 people killed in a helicopter crash. 

Alexandra Lamy will soon shoot her first fiction film for TF1.

Beginning of filming Monday, in the Gard.

The actress goes behind the camera to adapt a comic entitled “Touchées”, it is the story of women victims of violence who rebuild themselves thanks to fencing.

In the cast: his daughter, Chloé Jouannet, but also Mélanie Doutey, Claudia Tagbo and André Bescond.

Abroad, two pieces of information in brief.

A demonstration, first, in Lithuania, on the border with Belarus.

A rally in support of the 21 journalists imprisoned by the Belarusian authorities, in the presence of Christophe Deloire.

The secretary general of Reporters Without Borders considered the situation of press freedom in the country to be disastrous, four days after the arrest of a journalist, whose plane was intercepted by Belarus.

A non-stop news channel: GB News (GB for Great Britain).

It is due to launch in a little over two weeks, on June 13.

With as main investor, the American group Discovery, which will merge with WarnerMedia.

Return to France with the most prescriptive program in terms of literature.

"La Grande Librairie" on France 5 tops a survey published by Livres Hebdo. A survey of booksellers. 97% of them cite the program presented by François Busnel. "It has, they say, an influence on book sales." So much so that a third of bookstores systematically organize their shelves, their tables, their displays, according to the books presented in "La Grande Librairie".