Win or Lose, The French Get Behind Their Own
Briefly

Had you been at Roland Garros around supper time Wednesday evening and heard the crowd of nearly 10,000 fans chanting Lucas Pouille's name at a near deafening level, you would have assumed you had just missed a triumphant performance.Not even close.Pouille, a 29-year-old Frenchman, on the court named for Suzanne Lenglen, the French tennis star of the 1920s, lost in straight sets to Cameron Norrie, a Briton to add insult to injury, in less than two hours.
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