Benoît Paire is not well. Off the courts, the French tennis player asks himself a lot of questions and admits to getting help.
On and off the court, Benoît Paire is not there. Since the appearance of covid-19 and the upheavals that followed, the tricolor tennis player has lost the thread. So much so that he admits it today, quite frankly: playing tennis today no longer gives him pleasure. ” What is needed is to manage to find the happy medium, to also party, but also to be serious and to prepare well for the tournaments. That’s what I’m having a little more trouble doing right now. That’s why I’m going to start from scratch. It’s been two days since I drank alcohol, I’m in full treatment. I take pleasure when I go to train, when I play with my friends, but arriving at a tennis match at the moment… »
In an interview with Brut, the southern troublemaker who has only won four out of 23 matches played this season, confesses his discomfort at the moment: ” I have a little stress arriving on a court when that’s what I liked when I was good before. Even without training a lot, I managed 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 “.
“It’s an injury that can be very long”
Benoît Paire has a hard time dealing with external pressure in particular, and the more insidious one that invades his screens on a daily basis. ” This is the hardest time to receive messages from “haters”. […] There are more difficult messages where it’s death threats… “, he laments. ” My head, I don’t know when it’s going to get better. It’s a wound that can be very long and I hope it will be as short as possible.he concludes. I realized that I needed help and that I had to be better on the pitch. I see shrinks, a lot of people trying to understand what is happening to me. Alone, I couldn’t manage. I consult a hypnotist, a psychologist. I have a mental trainer to discuss a lot of things to try to fix this. »
“I see shrinks, I see a lot of people to try to understand what is happening to me.”
Outbursts of anger on the pitch, anxieties, loss of motivation… @benoitpaire relies on his mind. pic.twitter.com/8jyv8I0K0Y
— Brut FR (@brutofficiel) July 8, 2022
