Moutet, the enjoyment of the void.

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FRANCK FIFE / AFP

In our Windows 98 version of our mental scraper software, we imagined that the presence of a French audience on fire would have been of great help to Corentin Moutet, struggling in the first set for his entry into the running at Bercy against Salvatore Caruso.

We couldn't be more beside the point than that.

Not only the 75th in the world managed to find the resources to overturn the table and win in three sets (3-6, 7-6, 6-3) but in addition he did not spit on the camera established this year at Bercy.

Relaunched many times on the atmosphere of the end of the world that surrounds the tournament, the Frenchman repeated that it did not bother him in the least.

“The saddest thing is for those who like to come and watch the tournament, for the regulars,” he explained.

And for him?

"Since there is nobody, it's nice, it's intimate".

The cameras all around the court with no one in the stands?

Same: “There are even more seen that there are no more viewers.

It turns a bit into reality TV, it's funny!

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"Good to take in each of the two experiences"

Moutet, however, has not changed his habits and continues to turn to his "circle", as he calls it, when the need arises during the match.

"When there is an audience, it's a bit like in a show, we have to entertain them, we are the actors", he confided, limit relieved not to have to do the show during the match.

Asked about his communion with the public here last year, after the first victory of his career in Paris, the French nevertheless admitted that “it was nice to share it with the public.

"" Today I couldn't celebrate or raise my hand at the end of the match.

I had both experiences, it's different.

Better, worse?

“There is good to be had in both experiences.

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