YouTuber with 100k subscribers beats ex-world No18 in Australian Open qualifying
The new 12 months is off to a really promising begin for Jules Marie.
YouTuber Marie, 32, boasts greater than 100,000 subscribers on the video-sharing platform and paperwork his efforts taking part in tennis across the globe. He is not broadly thought-about a famous person of the courtroom, however his profile has grown immensely in recent times due to the traction he is constructed via social media.
However, that might be about to alter after the Frenchman beat compatriot and former world No18 Benoit Paire 7-6(6) 6-4 within the first spherical of Australian Open qualifying. That’s put the resurgent contender simply two wins away from reaching the principle draw, with the Melbourne main set to get underway on Monday.
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Marie’s story is one which’s captivated the tennis world in current months after his urge for food for tennis was sparked once more throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. He’d beforehand hung up his racket in 2015 after a string of defeats left him disillusioned, however he and his twin brother, Arthur, began producing movies throughout lockdown as a way to assist individuals develop their recreation remotely.
Fast-forward to 2021, and after stepping in as a hitting associate for Novak Djokovic at that 12 months’s French Open, Marie was satisfied he nonetheless had what it took to compete on the prime degree. And that definitely seems to be the case after beating Paire in straight units and bettering his rating to No224 on this planet – higher than his earlier greatest in 2015.
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“Thanks to the YouTube channel, I can pay everything, like the cameraman, the six other people who help me on this project,” Marie beforehand informed the official ATP web site. “I can pay the flights, the food, the hotels for everyone. It’s thanks to the YouTube channel, the sponsors. In 2014, and ‘15, it was my parents, it was me, so it was more difficult.”
His subsequent problem will come towards Switzerland’s Alexander Ritschard, who additionally got here via his opening qualifier in straight units towards Clement Tabur. Marie might then face a seeded qualifier in No26 Giulio Zeppieri or Bosnian Damir Dzumhur, who has reached the third spherical of the Australian Open on two events.
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Regardless of whether or not he reaches the principle draw, nevertheless, Marie has proved some extent after successful at a Grand Slam for the primary time in his profession. And he is already one quarter of the way in which to fulfilling his predominant goal for 2024.
“My first goal is to play all four Grand Slams,” Marie continued. “When I was a child, my goal was to be No. 1 in the world, of course. And then my goal was to be top 100. And now of course, I would like to be top 100. But I will be really, really happy to play all four Grand Slams.”
