The Australian Open enters its final stretch in an edition marked by the notorious absence of Novak Djokovic and the brilliant return to the slopes of Rafa Nadal. The pandemic has caused numerous changes in the first Grand Slam of the season, and not only on the track.
Eurosport has also faced the challenge of having to cover a drop in weight. And it is that Barbara Schett is not part this time of the team that carries the weight of television coverage from the London studios.
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The Austrian is in Australia, a country where she lives for much of the year since she married former tennis player Joshua Eagle, and from where she collaborates with her interviews and comments.
Her place is taken by Alizé Lim, who is fulfilling with flying colors the arduous task of taking charge of the channel’s programming. The former French tennis player had to hang up her racket in September 2020 due to injuries after a career in which her best ranking was 148th place in the WTA achieved in 2016.
After her career as a tennis player, Alizé decided to remain linked to the world of tennis as a television commentator, although her beginnings were not easy.
“At first, I didn’t feel comfortable and almost felt a little embarrassed. I try to be a good media student. I study as much as I can before I interview people because I am a perfectionist.“, assured in an interview for ‘Tennis.com’.
Although much of the audience has discovered Alizé Lim in recent days, in France she is a very well-known face. And it is that in addition to his tennis career He has been in the news for his sentimental relationship with different elite athletes, such as the tennis player Benoit Paire, the swimmer Florent Manaudou or his current partner, the former NBA star Tony Parker.
Much loved by his compañer@s of the circuit, Lim considers Roger Federer his BFF (Best Friend Forever / Best Friend Ever), with whom he shows enormous complicity every time they coincide, although his list of illustrious friends includes Mike Tyson, singers of the stature of Pharrell Williams or Usher, or actors like Pedro Pascal.
Alize Lim with Mike Tyson
Alizé Lim with Pharrell Williams
Alize Lim with Usher
Alize Lim with Pedro Pascal
Definitely, a luxury signing for Eurosport for an Australian Open that seemed doomed to be under the shadow of the pandemic and the controversy of the Djokovic case.
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