Ici accompagné de son entraîneur Sam Sumyk, Cazaux affrontera Baez au premier tour. Instagram – Arthur Cazaux
A year after his crazy adventure and a season full of twists and turns, the Montpellier native is back at the Australian Open in Melbourne, where he will face Argentinian Sebastian Baez in the first round on Monday, January 13.
He is back where he blossomed in the eyes of all. Where he achieved the greatest feat of his career, blowing away the then world No. 8, Holger Rune, in the second round, before qualifying for the first eighth-final in a Grand Slam. Where he declared his love for La Paillade and where everything accelerated afterwards, too. Perhaps a little too much for his taste.
“I had my first big “victories” in big tournaments, explained Arthur Cazaux at the end of the year in the “Bleu Horizon” series of We Are Tennis. I was able to see the enthusiasm and the place that the media could take. It will be very useful to me in the coming years if I come to have big results.”
200% Deposit Bonus up to €3,000 180% First Deposit Bonus up to $20,000“Because it's something that cost me a little energy, continues the world number 80. It was perhaps a little too much after Australia. I found that the media were getting carried away in my case, there are Sinners and Alcarazs light years ahead of me. There is no need to get excited like that.”
Roller coaster
An excess of demands that the 22-year-old from Montpellier actually paid for over the course of the season, lacking a bit of freshness afterwards and having a series of physical problems. But as it is written on his arm, resilience is part of the kid with curls all over his head and ears.
A first victory at Roland-Garros narrowly missed, but still there at Wimbledon and the US Open, a great victory against world No. 19 Ben Shelton after being drafted at Bercy… The boy is a roller coaster rider. Allowing him to obtain his best ranking at the end of 2024, at 63rd place in the world.
This is an important figure for 2025 for the 1.83 m right-hander because in tennis, yesterday's victories become today's reconquests. Thanks to or because of his great epic Down Under, the Héraultais will have a lot of points to defend during this Australian Open.
Health will be the mother of safety
His coach doesn't make a big deal out of it and puts things into perspective. “When we go to Australia, we're only going to look at the race rankings, his new coach Sam Sumyk explained to our colleagues at Tennis Majors since the US Open. The other (the ATP rankings), we don't care. I like the race rankings, where everyone starts at 0-0.
“It's also a question of state of mind: you can't be sorry a year later for having played well a year earlier, and if you work hard you will get your points back at some point somewhere”, adds Sumyk, also targeting the good health of his player as an essential factor in his player's progress.
Who inherited a seed, the world No. 28 and Argentinian Sebastian Baez, a clay specialist, for the first round of the Australian Open on the night of this Sunday to Monday. A victory and the reconquest will begin.
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