From May 22 to June 11, 2023, the Roland-Garros tennis tournament will be held at the Roland-Garros stadium in Paris. For the occasion, Laurent Luyat was invited to tell a memorable anecdote about the competition on France 2. “A funny moment, marking “which did not fail to make Internet users and tennis fans react.
“One day, we get Teddy Riner,” he recalled. “We are in the middle of a Gasquet match against Berlocq who is on center court. I say to Teddy: ‘We will do the interview when the side changes’. And so the game lasts a bit and he is starting to get impatient with the 2m06 tall. At the time, we had decorative tennis balls on the table. I don’t know what got into him, he takes the tennis ball and throws it on the court.”
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Laurent Luyat reframes Teddy Riner in the middle of the tournament
Surprised by the gesture of the famous judoka, Laurent Luyat did not hesitate to reframe the athlete. For him, “vsIt’s like sending a dog to the tatami when he’s fighting. It makes no sense”. “But what did you do? Do you realize?”he would have launched while hearing the journalist Lionel Chamoulaud wondering in the headset: “‘Ah, there are two balls on the court, what’s going on?'”. “He does not know that it comes from the terrace”, then specified the star of France Télévisions.
Fortunately, no one took into account the stroke of blood of the Olympic medalist. “It made people laugh and even Gasquet at a press conference when we told him that it was Teddy Riner who had thrown the ball, he said: ‘No, but anyway, I won’t tell him anything’. Respect… “, concluded Laurent Luyat. For his part, the Guadeloupean had ironically explained, on the air: “I was training for the basketball world championships”.
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The day when @teddyriner freaked out at #Roland Garros : @LLuyat tells us this memorable anecdote! @francetvsportpic.twitter.com/f10iUWEynv
– France 2 (@France2tv) June 1, 2023