Stopped for 10 years, the Frenchwoman, stopped by an injury when she was dominating at 15, reappears three-year-old and regains her cover after eliminating Pliskova. Paris focuses on the new house mascot
A criminologist on loan to tennis. Or viceversa. In the many daring descents and climbs in the life and career of Léolia Jeanjean, nothing is taken for granted. Equipe is well aware of this, which, perfectly hitting the point (and perhaps also the karma) of the situation, this morning on the front page, just above a giant picture by Karim Benzema, dedicated a space to Léolia, “a belle vague bleue”, a beautiful blue wave, after yesterday astonished the tennis world by beating world number eight Karolina Pliskova with a peremptory, double 6-2. For those who know the French, they know that for them the term “vague” is something magical, mystical, not used by chance, especially in the arts. From Godard to Truffaut down for them it is something fresh, new, that sweeps away that stale, that old that everyone was getting used to.