Roland-Garros 2025 - Victoria Mboko : "Nathalie Tauziat voyage de plus en plus avec moi cette année"

Tennis Actu TV

30/05/2025

Victoria Mboko, issue des qualifications, n'a pas passé son premier vrai test sur ce Roland-Garros. Opposée ce vendredi au 3e tour à une Top 10, Qinwen Zheng, la Canadienne s'est mise au niveau de son adversaire, mais a craqué dans les moments décisifs (6-3, 6-4). Elle sort la tête haute de ce tournoi, et devrait découvrir le Top 100 au lendemain du Grand Chelem parisien.

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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.

00:17Yeah, so, I mean, my first Grand Slam, the experience was pretty nice, you know.

00:23I mean, to make the round of 32 anyways, I think it's a pretty good result for me.

00:29Today was a tough battle against Akinwen, but she played really good tennis and lots of things to learn

00:36and hopefully come back in my next tournament with some more positives and improved on my game.

00:44Questions, comments, please.

00:47Hi. Could you tell us, for people who don't follow you daily, what the role Nathalie Toussaint had for your career was, if there was any role?

01:01Yeah, so I've known Nathalie since I was a junior. She was a part-time coach at Tennis Canada.

01:09I didn't really travel with her a lot as a junior, but starting this year, she was traveling more and more with me,

01:16especially at the beginning of this year, when she could.

01:20And, I mean, she's been with me for most of my tournaments so far this year.

01:24And, yeah, she's great to work with, you know, she knows me very well.

01:29And I think that makes things a lot easier, especially when the coach already knows your personality

01:35and what you like and what you don't like. So, those things have been working out pretty well.

01:41And, yeah.

01:42Yes, question right there.

01:44After the accident and the stands, was it a problem for you to continue playing?

01:49Yeah, I mean, yeah, it was a very abrupt thing that happened.

01:54I had no idea even what was going on at the beginning.

01:58But, yeah, I didn't really sit down because I wanted to keep the blood flowing

02:03and I was bouncing around on the changeover on the seat.

02:07But, I don't think it was that much of a stop for me because I won the game after anyways.

02:16But, yeah, it was unfortunate that that had to happen during the match.

02:19But, I think it was fine. I think I handled it fine.

02:23Hi. I want to go back to your coach a little bit.

02:30So, on the tour, we don't have that many female tour coaches.

02:37So, maybe it's a little bit tough for you to compare.

02:41But, what do you think is the benefit, as a female player,

02:44what do you think is the benefit of having a female coach by your side?

02:48Yeah, so, I feel like, for me, having a male or female coach

02:53doesn't really make that big of a difference.

02:57Of course, having a female there, you relate a lot more.

03:01I mean, they know more of the woman's game

03:04and they know the struggles that a woman can go through on tour.

03:08So, in that aspect, it could be a little bit easier

03:11to try to understand some things that a man cannot.

03:14But, overall, I mean, I feel like I'm very lenient towards those things.

03:19Like, whether I had a male coach, it wouldn't be that different for me anyways.

03:25Hi. Did you suffer the conditions? Sun, heat? Or it was okay for you?

03:31Yeah, I mean, today, it wasn't too, too hot.

03:34I mean, of course, today was one of the warmest days, I think, of the tournament.

03:39But, overall, it was, I think I felt fine on court.

03:43I mean, it was pretty hot.

03:44But, I think we were both playing pretty fine

03:47and we didn't really suffer that much.

03:51Victoria, now that you've played three top ten players,

03:54Bedosa, Coco, and now Zhang,

03:57can you compare who hits harder,

04:00whose ball is tougher to handle for you?

04:03How could you sort of compare the three of them?

04:05Honestly, I think all three of them hit pretty hard.

04:11No, but all three of them also have a very unique game.

04:14I mean, Kunwen today, she has really heavy and hard balls,

04:19or, yeah, shots on her ball.

04:21So, I mean, I think I was struggling a lot with that,

04:24especially on the clay.

04:25Her ball was really effective.

04:26And, you know, Coco, she was very athletic.

04:29She moves very well and she's on every single ball

04:33and she still hits powerful shots.

04:36And maybe with Paula, she hits also an incredibly hard ball.

04:40But, you know, I played all three of them on different surfaces,

04:43so it's kind of hard to compare.

04:46But, yeah, it's obviously a really difficult level to play against them,

04:51but I'm glad to have experienced that overall against them.

04:55I guess that was the actual question.

04:57Now that you've seen what the level is at the very, very top level,

05:01do you sort of go to work and figure out what you need to do

05:04to be able to stay in rallies all day long with that quality of ball?

05:09Yeah, I mean, that could also just relate to the fitness aspect, too.

05:13You know, I feel like hitting-wise,

05:17I think I could also handle the shots as well, too.

05:20I mean, I've been playing against a lot of hard hitters anyways,

05:24but I think it's just a matter of fitness, a matter of stamina

05:27and a lot of working in the gym towards those stuff.

05:31And I think it's just a matter of time at the end of the day.

05:35Question over here.

05:36Sorry, I came in a little bit late.

05:42I'm not sure whether you asked this question.

05:44How do you feel about Tianwen's performance today?

05:46What do you think the key reason to make the difference of the match?

05:50Because in the second set, you got a bunch of break points,

05:54but it didn't convert it.

05:55Thanks.

05:56Yeah, Tianwen, I think she has a very powerful game.

06:01She was, I find that she was dictating a lot,

06:05especially I think she had a really great forehand

06:07that was able to open up the court a lot easier than I could.

06:11And I think she has a really great serve, too.

06:14She has a lot of good accuracy, especially she was hitting a lot of lines.

06:19So, yeah, I think that also made a big difference.

06:22And I was not able to break as much as she was able to

06:27because I think she was just really serving very powerful

06:30and I couldn't really keep up with her speed on some of the shots.

06:35to have a great match.

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