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Alizé Cornet publishes book about her life on the WTA tour

Alizé Cornet announced that she would like to publish her first book "Sans Compromis" in September, in which she tells about her life on the tour.

by Michael Rothschädl
last edit: Apr 14, 2020, 10:06 am

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Alizé Cornet's book "Sans Compromis" is scheduled for release in September
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Alizé Cornet's book "Sans Compromis" is scheduled for release in September

Last but not least, the autobiographies of Andre Agassi and Monica Seles showed that tennis players can have a literary knack. Andrea Petkovic is also known to be very well read and recently founded her own book club. He could soon deal with a work from France, because Petkovic's colleague Alizé Cornet announced that she would publish a book about her life on the tour.

"I've always been a fan of literature," Cornet said in an interview for the French tennis association's website. "It's all my own work. It's a mixture of autobiography and travelogue," says the Frenchwoman, who is also working on a fictional novel at the same time. However, this is not intended for publication. "These are stories ... an imagined world. I have no intention of publishing them. It is only for pleasure. It is what I like to do and it helps me to pass the time," she said World Ranking-56. to understand.

Cornet with text about doping test

The book is to be published under the title "Sans Compromis". Due to the corona virus, the publication of Cornet's work has also been postponed: the book about the French Open should have been published in May, but a publication is planned for September. Cornet has already shown that you can look forward to exciting insights with a contribution on the "Behind the Raquet" page. There the French woman spoke about the time when she was confronted with doping allegations and an investigation was started against her.

Click here for Alizé Cornet's literary sample.

by Michael Rothschädl

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