You have to see them in training under the bubble of the Grasse tennis club, on this cold December morning. They are no more different from each other, physically – 1.88 m against 1.73 m – or in temperament – one introverted, the other playful – but they are accomplices like two facetious kids. Ugo Humbert, 22, lanky figure on meager jaws, bludgeons his buddy with large breeze blocks. Hugo Gaston, 20 years old, tight body, muscular legs, replica by planting, what do you think? Yes, one of those magical cushionings that lit up our sad fall Roland-Garros. In 2020 Hugo and Ugo were the fresh and cool new faces of French tennis.
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