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In an interview with L'Equipe, Lucas Pouille, French the tennis player born in 1994 recounted the reasons for the gradual abandonment of the sport: a form of depression, which began after the Roland Garros. The bad relationship with tennis seems to have an end now the Frenchman has a new super goal: Paris 2024, site of the next Olympic Games.
"It was very interesting to hang out, stopping talking about tennis did my head a lot of good. Now I've picked up the racket again and every day I think about the Olympics. It's the only event I haven't attended. Being at the Paris Games is the experience of my life.
I want to try it. All knowing that the body could fail again and that would be the end of it,” he said in the interview.
Lucas Pouille's Shocking Confession: Depression and Alcohol
The French tennis player, former number 10 in the world and semifinalist of the 2019 Australian Open, is now a ghost of the ATP tour, sometimes hanging out at the Challenger tournaments.
Especially after the elbow surgery. "I started to have a darker side and got into a depression which led me after the Roland Garros, in England, to sleep only one hour at night and drink alone. I found myself in a hospital in Nice for two weeks in a hyperbaric bed to help me heal faster, surrounded by terminally ill people, while I had a small rib fracture.
This scared me a lot. I couldn't sleep a wink, I was sinking into something gloomy. I woke up with googly eyes. After a week without sleep, I threw all my rackets in the trash and asked my family, Is this normal? I locked myself away, didn't tell anyone about it.
I'm not the most talkative type. I was in a bad situation and I said enough; for my sanity, i had to stop, i was about to hit the wall. He didn't respect me as a player. I couldn't show that image of myself," he told.
