{"id":329146,"date":"2025-12-05T09:46:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329146\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:46:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:46:11","slug":"courtside-conversations-ep-13-alize-cornet-reflects-on-the-2025-season-roland-garros-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/329146\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Courtside Conversations&#8221; \u2013 EP 13: Aliz\u00e9 Cornet reflects on the 2025 season &#8211; Roland-Garros 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 2, Aliz\u00e9 Cornet officially became <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fft.fr\/actualites\/alize-cornet-manager-equipes-de-france-feminines-capitaine-billie-jean-king-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">manager of France\u2019s women\u2019s national teams<\/a> and captain of the French Billie Jean King Cup squad, just two months after bringing her professional playing career to a definitive close. A former world No.11 (her career-high ranking) and six-time WTA champion, the 2022 Australian Open quarter-finalist initially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/au-revoir-alize-cornet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">stepped away at Roland-Garros 2024<\/a> before returning briefly in the spring with one last goal in mind: a final appearance at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>Clear-headed in her decision and honoured to take on these new responsibilities, the 35-year-old from Nice looks back on her appointment and shares her enduring love for the sport, a discipline she continued to follow closely throughout 2025. The season delivered plenty to talk about, from the five different women\u2019s champions at the Grand Slams and WTA Finals \u2013 Madison Keys <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/australian-open-2025-final-recap-women-madison-keys-champion-surprise-title-first-grand-slam-aryna-sabalenka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Melbourne<\/a>, Coco Gauff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/rg2025-gauff-poise-blocks-out-the-noise-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at Roland-Garros<\/a>, Iga Swiatek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/wimbledon-2025-final-women-iga-swiatek-victory-first-title-grass-amanda-anisimova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">at Wimbledon<\/a>, Aryna Sabalenka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/us-open-2025-women-final-aryna-sabalenka-champion-twice-amanda-anisimova\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in New York<\/a> and Elena Rybakina <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/article\/wta-finals-2025-elena-rybakina-major-success-aryna-sabalenka-riyadh\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in Riyadh<\/a> \u2013 to the extraordinary duel at the top of the men\u2019s game between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner, highlighted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolandgarros.com\/en-us\/video\/2025-edition-carlos-alcaraz-jannik-sinner-mens-final-full-match\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">their historic showdown on court Philippe-Chatrier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From standout individual performances in 2025 to the delicate balance between personal life and professional demands and even the hope of seeing new faces rise in the months ahead, nothing was left off the table in this 13th episode of your podcast.<\/p>\n<p>To listen to the full conversation between Gigi and Aliz\u00e9, sit back, relax, and hit play on the episode below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On November 2, Aliz\u00e9 Cornet officially became manager of France\u2019s women\u2019s national teams and captain of the French&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329147,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-329146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}