The chants of \u201cMerci, Mo-ise\u201d rang around the stands as the 17-year-old became the youngest French player to reach the Roland-Garros men\u2019s singles third round in the Open era.<\/p>\n
For tennis fans worldwide, it\u2019s time to get used to hearing \u2018game, set, match, Kouame,\u2019 for many years to come.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you are down 5-2 in the fifth set, there is a temptation to give up\u2026 Last year I watched the final where Carlos Alcaraz saved three match points. He said he never stopped believing,\u201d the world No.318 said. \u201cToday, when I found myself down 3-5, broken in the fifth, I never stopped believing.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was that kind of match and on numerous occasions Kouame was conducting his home faithful with gestures and roars to pump up the volume.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s something I’ve always dreamed to do, get the crowd going and making a bit of a show on court,\u201d he added. \u201cOf course, doing this on every point is, I think, too much, so I’m really trying to understand when is the right moment to feel the most energy the crowd is giving me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The chants of \u201cMerci, Mo-ise\u201d rang around the stands as the 17-year-old became the youngest French player to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-609639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}