Benoît Paire announces that he is taking a “break” after another defeat in Stuttgart

Benoît Paire (33) conceded his 15th defeat in the first round of the season on Monday in Stuttgart, against the Italian Lorenzo Sonego (7-5, 6-2). In the process, in an Instagram story, the French tennis player expressed his weariness with the outspokenness that we know him. “Tennis break for an indefinite period”, he wrote in the caption of a photo where we see him taking his head in his hands. Benoit Paire is taking a “tennis break for an indefinite period”. (Screen capture) The Parisian air did not bring a smile back to the Avignonnais, eliminated in the first round of Roland-Garros by the Belarusian Ilya Ivashka (3-6, 5-7, 6-1, 5- 7). Apart from his two qualifying victories in Madrid in early May, he has only won three matches on the main circuit in 2022: two at the Australian Open in January and the last in Geneva in mid-May. Nineteenth in the world shortly before the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 – which he experienced very badly with the drastic conditions put in place for the resumed tournaments – he fell back to 80th in the world.