Balayed on Monday in the 1st round of the Strasbourg tournament, Alizé Cornet, released from his retirement after a year, assures that she will quickly withdraw from the circuit again. But this time definitively. Quite surprisingly, the Niçoise even says he is in a hurry to stop.
“I can’t wait to stop again.” For a player who has just left her retirement, such a statement has everything paradoxical. However, it is the state of mind that inhabits Alizé Cornet when it has just found the circuit. After the slap received in the first round against Marie Bouzkova on Tuesday (6-2, 6-1), the Niçoise was very clear on the subject: if she wanted to resume her career, it is not in order to drag on the circuit, but only to regain the pleasure of playing (“I wanted to try to have a slightly less toxic relationship with tennis. Good note. The team The world’s ex-numéro 11, who also admits that she no longer fears this daily life far from the courts, she who knew her for a year.
Cornet: “I would like to be captain of BJK Cup”
“Something was upset in order to stop on this somewhat negative note. But life without tennis, it is exceptional. Already I have time, which is a luxury. And I have the opportunity to work in another way, to let express another part of my personality. The post-carrier no longer scares me. Especially since the one who refused to find Roland-Garros as a player, on the other hand, is full of projects. “Challenges, I have a lot with writing, since I am finishing my third novel. And a writer, she could even once slip into the tracksuit of Captain of the Blue. “Maybe in the future, I would like to be a captain of BJK Cup. I’ve been saying it for ten years, so it’s not a secret! ».
