"She'll come back even stronger, she's like that": in Dijon, Loïs Boisson is more than ever the pride of his training club

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REPORT – After a fast-paced match, the Frenchwoman bowed out just outside the Roland-Garros final against a top-flight Coco Gauff. But ASPTT Dijon, where she made her debut, sees her as a "serious contender" for a Grand Slam victory.
Rarely, in the world of tennis and on the planet of sporting competitions, do children welcome a defeat with a round of applause. However, at ASPTT Dijon shortly after 7 p.m., as the Frenchwoman Loïs Boisson surrendered after an hour and ten minutes of a match she never had the keys to , Louise, six years old, and Martin, eight years old, jumped for joy and raised their arms in the air while singing for long minutes. Behind them, around fifty adults, most of them club members present since the beginning of the afternoon and some of whom "did not sleep all night" , did not want to stop applauding either. The child of ASPTT carried his colors much higher than they would have ever dared to imagine. "I'm very proud," says Stéphane Neveu, sports director of the club, which has had around 400 members for 25 years, with shining eyes. He was already there when, on this indoor court below the clubhouse where a 25-meter-long cable was pulled...
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