La carrière d'Eva Lys (59e) a pris un sacré tournant en 2025. Éliminée en qualifications de l'Open d'Australie, la joueuse de 23 ans a patienté, et obtenu une place de "lucky loser" à la dernière minute. Une semaine plus tard, elle disputait son premier huitième de finale de Grand Chelem contre Iga Swiatek (n°2), après avoir enchaîné trois succès de rang. Depuis, l'Allemande est installée dans le Top 100 et poursuit sa progression. Pour sa grande première à Roland-Garros ce dimanche, la native de Kiev (Ukraine) n'a pas fait dans la dentelle : succès 6-0, 6-3 devant Peyton Stearns. Une réussite d'autant plus remarquable que la joueuse a découvert qu'elle était atteinte de spondyloarthrite, un rhumatisme inflammatoire chronique qui atteint surtout le bassin et la colonne vertébrale, depuis 2020.
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00:00BNP Paribas, partenaire des plus belles histoires de Roland Garros, aux côtés des ramasseurs de balles depuis plus de 50 ans.
00:30I think that's the most important part, not to have the highs and lows, especially against players like Peyton, so I'm really happy with my performance.
00:43Do we have questions in English?
00:48Hi, congratulations. What does it mean to you to get your first main draw win in Paris?
00:56I mean, I haven't had many main draw Grand Slam wins yet, so definitely having the first one here in Paris feels very special to me.
01:03I think in this year I've come a long way and I've been really just trying to get the wins, especially against these good players,
01:11because I've had some tough draws the past tournaments and couldn't really make it.
01:16So definitely having an insanely happy feeling after today's win.
01:21You are very active on social media. You put a lot of effort in delivering good quality content.
01:30So I want to know how do you deal with this world of social media that can be sometimes a double-edged sword?
01:37I wouldn't say I put a lot of effort in because it just comes naturally. I'm just enjoying myself. I'm having fun.
01:43I love being creative also outside of tennis and just trying to see tennis from a different perspective.
01:49I think that's one thing that I haven't seen many people do, so I'm just enjoying myself.
01:56And obviously social media has its ups and its downs, but I'm just trying to see the positive way, trying to put nice content out that people enjoy.
02:05And I mean, as in life, you always have the negative sides of it, and when it gets too much, I openly speak about it,
02:12because I think it's important to also acknowledge the bad sides of it and do something about it.
02:18But overall, I have a very positive and nice community, which I'm really grateful for.
02:22Do you see it also as a business thing?
02:25I mean, I would say it's something like hobby slash business, but I haven't really seen it as a business,
02:32because again, it's just what I do outside the sport that just gives me a good feeling.
02:37And maybe in the future it will open some more doors, but for now I'm hoping tennis will open the doors for me.
02:44When will you, just in general, start to think about your next match and begin preparing for it?
02:54And separately, specifically here, what do you know about your next opponent?
02:59I haven't seen my next opponent yet, so I don't know anything about her, because I've just came from court.
03:06But I mean, I'm trying to just enjoy my next days, keep on practicing, keep on doing what I do best.
03:12At the end of the day, I don't care who's going to be on the other side.
03:16And I'm just going to try to go out and have fun and do my best.
03:20Can I tell you who you're next?
03:22Please, no. Not yet. Thank you.
03:25When do you want to know? When will you know?
03:28Usually I find out somehow, like either someone texts me, like I'm not that strict.
03:33Like, obviously, if someone came in and said and told it to me, I wouldn't be too mad about it.
03:38But for now, I'm just trying to enjoy the win I had, especially today.
03:41And I think maybe tomorrow when I'm back in practice, I'll probably have my coach or my mom or my little sister probably is going to tell me who I'm playing.
03:50So I can prepare in practice. But for today, I'm just trying to enjoy what I have.
03:55Hi, Eva. Congratulations.
03:58I just want to ask about your autoimmune condition that I know you spoke about recently, spondyloarthritis.
04:05Is that right?
04:06What was the process of being diagnosed with that?
04:09Because I know it can be quite hard to get a diagnosis for that.
04:13So it definitely took a while for me because I've had a variety of symptoms, but they didn't come at the same time.
04:21So we didn't really know. But I'm having my doctor back home in Hamburg.
04:26His name is Volker Carrero.
04:28He's been with me since I'm 10 years old.
04:31So he's kind of like I wouldn't be able to play tennis without him.
04:35So after like just evaluating the issues I've been having, he had this theory that it might be going into the arthritis, spondyloarthritis direction.
04:46And I mean, as soon as I heard it, I was just laughing about it because I'm like, OK, I'm pretty young.
04:52I don't think it's going to be me.
04:54But yeah, after we talked with the doctors and did some tests and everything, the yeah.
04:59How do you say the condition?
05:04I forgot the word.
05:06Yeah, the diagnosis was was there.
05:09And I think the first weeks it was weird because I wasn't really like acknowledging it.
05:14But again, I've had like around that time I had my worst issues.
05:18So I was I was not on court. I was not able to play with it.
05:21So, yeah, I think the diagnosis was really important for me just to know what to do to get back on court.
05:28And I think the doctors told me this is not going to keep you from being number one if it if treated right.
05:34So I was always thinking about it.
05:36And the first months were tough, but I had a great family.
05:40I had a I had great friends around me and still do, which definitely helped me to go through this, not by myself.
05:47And there's been a bit of a process of like learning where your physical boundaries are, like the threshold of pain that you shouldn't play through or train through.
05:54Yeah. I mean, I'm going to be honest, the diagnosis came 2020 and we're in 2025.
05:59So I would say this is the first year that I actually can say that I know how to deal with it, know how to deal with the practices I have, how hard I can push.
06:10When is the time to really just relax?
06:12I mean, especially also in the last weeks, I'm not going to lie that I've had just days where my body was not doing what it's supposed to.
06:19And even like preparing here, maybe one or two practices less because it's something I have to do.
06:26But I know that if I give my body time, it recovers and the next day I'm stronger than ever.
06:31So I just need to find the right balance with regeneration and the practice process.
06:40I understand you speak several languages. Can you tell me what they all are? And when you're playing tennis, what are you thinking in or speaking to yourself in?
06:57So, I mean, I grew up, I think the best language I speak is German than English. My parents are from Ukraine, so I speak Ukraine and Russian and trying to learn Spanish.
07:11But this is nothing I would talk in this press conference. And I have no clue. I'm switching so much.
07:17Like, I feel like some topics I'm working on, maybe, I don't know, I'm talking to myself in German.
07:23But when I'm like thinking about technique stuff, because I'm playing a lot with my dad, I switch to another language, Ukrainian.
07:29I feel like there's a big mix. I have a lot of people asking me what language I dream in.
07:34I couldn't tell you. I don't know. I feel like there are too many languages, but there's definitely a lot going on in this head.
07:41I feel like there's a lot going on in this head.