The smell of mosquito repellent spread through the alleys of Melbourne Park, and Hugo Grenier and Alexandre Müller’s legs stung very badly. Not because of the insect that points its trunk at nightfall. Rather because of the efforts made on court 5 which became the gathering of French people without tickets for the Rod Laver Arena, where Caroline Garcia officiated against Naomi Osaka. After more than four hours of duel, no one knew where he stood. The public, which alternated between “Allez Hugo”, followed by “Allez Alex”, when a “Allez les Bleus” did not everyone agree. And the players, with trembling calves and limping gait.
