It’s a loss that marks deeply Amelie Mauresmo and she did not hesitate to talk about it at length to her fans. Everything is going well in the life of the former champion, winner of two Grand Slam tournaments and now director of the Roland-Garros tournament, but the news she has just learned has plunged her into deep sadness.
Now retired from sport and mother of two beautiful children, she has devoted her life to her sport and still today she continues to give it a very important place. A life that has allowed her to meet many people to whom she has become attached and she has just learned the death of Gilles Daubineta well-known sports doctor, who is busy with the French tennis team for many years.
“My Doc, You left us last night and since there is this immense sadness and these memories of you that keep coming back. And especially the idea that you will no longer be there to continue to take me under your wing as you did from our first meeting when I was 18…”, writes Amélie Mauresmo in a post on her Instagram account. Followed by more than 37,000 subscribers, the one who devotes a lot of time to her children was very close to Gilles Daubinet, whom she knew very young and who had an important role in her success. “You who have done more than 20 years as a doctor in this great team! You were above all our shrink in real life! We shared so many moments together! That’s crazy ! So many secrets, laughs, joys, sorrows and victories too!she continues.
Hard to accept. You will remain in my memory
Very linked to Amélie Mauresmo, the doctor notably went to London and Melbourne to attend the two Grand Slam coronations of the former tennis player, but he also saved her knee, as she reveals. “You were for me like this father who had left too soon, already. Hard to accept. You will remain in my memory. I think very much of Corinne, Grégoire, Jess and Lucie who accompanied you to the end with so much courage”she concludes.