"There are too many audiences in Strasbourg ..." Alizé Cornet launches his tournament!

Alizé Cornet successfully entered the Internationals in Strasbourg on Monday.

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• Alizé Cornet did not appreciate his first stint at the Strasbourg Internationals on Sunday.

  She regretted that the public is too close to the players, which amounts to questioning the health protocol.

• On Sunday evening, the tournament director answered him.

  Everything is done so that the players do not meet the public, nor even the journalists ”, declared Denis Naegelen.

• On Monday, the player was more relaxed after her victory against Polona Hercog.

  She wanted to come back to what she said the day before.

Alizé Cornet is not known to have her tongue in her pocket.

She has just proved it again.

Just before her entry into the running on Monday at the Strasbourg Internationals, the Niçoise attacked the health protocol, which was obviously insufficient in her eyes.

“I find that here in Strasbourg there are too many audiences.

I think the players are not comfortable with it.

The fact that there is a public in the stands is not necessarily bad, but these people meet in the aisles with us (...), ask a lot of photos and autographs from all the players and it's hard to refuse.

I'm happy that there is the public but I think it could be better separated, ”she explained to an AFP journalist, before adding a layer.

"It's completely paradoxical because we are locked up in a hotel, we are prevented from going out, we take all the hyper protocol literally, and next to that we are going to meet people who are there en masse and who do not respect not at all social distancing (…) so there is something wrong.

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A 66-page health protocol

In the evening of Sunday, the director of the tournament, Denis Naegelen, answered him by interposed media.

“There is no bubble with us.

The WTA has asked every player to behave responsibly, to stay in the protected areas that are allotted to the players.

Anyone from the public or from the organization cannot be in direct contact with the players.

We put in place a health protocol of 66 pages which was written after dozens of hours of meetings with the Regional Health Agency, the French Tennis Federation and the security services of the WTA ”, he added. he retorted before evoking “signage, one-way circuits: everything is done so that the players do not meet the public, nor even the journalists.

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This Monday, questioned by

, the organizer regretted “that Alizé did not come [to him] to talk about it directly.

The person concerned, she tried to put an end to this debate.

“My statements were super blunt ... I'm not surprised, it's always the case when a player says something original.

This is not what the substance meant.

Me, I'm the first to be happy that there is an audience, I'm a show-man (sic) par excellence and I love sharing my emotions with the audience.

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"It was a bit anxious for us"

Then the current 51st World was keen to clarify his thoughts: “I found that on the site, there were places where the public and the players were mixed and that these places had to be better separated.

Sunday, there were a lot of people and we were in the middle of this crowd.

It was a bit anxious for us, it wasn't just for me.

But today, everything is back to normal.

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Like his tennis.

On the clay at the foot of the European Parliament, the Frenchwoman delivered a solid match against Polona Hercog (n ° 50), won 6-3 6-3.

"I'm happy with my feelings," said Alizé Cornet, who thanked the gardeners for the quality of the land.

“The central is particularly beautiful, it's super pleasant […] This is not always the case.

The tournament in Rome is wonderful, but the courts in Rome are sometimes… fields of potatoes.

And presto, another smash!

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