After his defeat on Tuesday against the American Jenson Brooksby (6-3, 6-1) in the first round of the Atlanta tournament, the 33-year-old Frenchman Benoit Paire will break out of the top 100 in the ATP rankings for the first time since 2015. .
This is not news that will help Benoit Paire regain momentum in his professional tennis career. Committed to a series of negative results on the circuit – he has not won a single match since May 16 in Geneva against Emil Ruusuvuori – the Avignonnais will see his ATP ranking drop again.
Defeated at the start of Atlanta on Tuesday by the American Jenson Brooksby (6-3, 6-1), Paire will indeed leave the top 100, a first since its entry in March 2015. A sentence to which the latter seemed to wait, as he confided ironically this Tuesday on Twitter.
Exit from the top 100, depression… Benoit Paire’s dark period continues
The 33-year-old Frenchman returned in detail after his defeat at Wimbledon in early July against his compatriot Quentin Halys on his depressive period. “I have a little stress arriving on a court when that’s what I liked when I was good before,” he explained. “Even without training a lot, I was able to get out of big matches because I liked that, the adrenaline. I liked the moments of stress and now it has become more and more complicated. As soon as I am stressed, I get anxious and I panic. It’s difficult because I don’t necessarily feel happy in my life, because tennis is complicated.” Especially since the many hate messages received on social networks did not help him get better.
To try to go up the slope, Paire had explained to have surrounded himself with several professionals. “I see shrinks, a lot of people to try to understand what is happening to me. On my own, I couldn’t get out of it. I consult a hypnotist, a psychologist. I have a mental trainer to discuss a lot of things to try to fix that.”
But to make matters worse, in mid-July his former companion Julie Bertin attacked him on the networks by denouncing his attitude towards him. The tumultuous period may not be over for the French player…