L’Australien Fred Stolle, vainqueur de Roland-Garros en 1965 et de l’US Open l’ann\u00e9e suivante, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 86 ans, a annonc\u00e9 jeudi la f\u00e9d\u00e9ration australienne de tennis.
Egalement trois fois finaliste \u00e0 Wimbledon et deux fois chez lui \u00e0 l’Open d’Australie en simple, Stolle a cependant connu ses plus grands succ\u00e8s en double et double mixte, remportant 17 tournois du Grand Chelem. \u00ab\u00a0Quand on parle de l’\u00e2ge d’or australien et de la progression de l’amateurisme vers le professionnalisme, le nom de Stolle figure tout en haut de la liste\u00a0\u00bb, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 Craig Tiley, directeur de Tennis Australia, saluant dans un communiqu\u00e9 son \u00ab\u00a0excellence, son d\u00e9vouement et son amour profond pour le tennis\u00a0\u00bb.
Avec l’Australie, Stolle a aussi remport\u00e9 trois fois la Coupe Davis (1964-66). Il a \u00e9galement \u00e9t\u00e9 l’entra\u00eeneur de l’Am\u00e9ricain Vitas Gerulaitis, victorieux \u00e0 l’Open d’Australie en 1977.
Comme commentateur, Stolle a ensuite \u00e9t\u00e9 connu comme \u00ab\u00a0la voix du tennis\u00a0\u00bb aupr\u00e8s de g\u00e9n\u00e9rations de t\u00e9l\u00e9spectateurs.
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L’Australien Fred Stolle, vainqueur de Roland-Garros en 1965 et de l’US Open l’ann\u00e9e suivante, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 86 ans, a annonc\u00e9 jeudi la f\u00e9d\u00e9ration australienne de tennis.Egalement trois fois finaliste \u00e0 Wimbledon et deux fois chez lui \u00e0 l’Open d’Australie en simple, Stolle a cependant connu ses plus grands succ\u00e8s en double et […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[163],"class_list":{"0":"post-35416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"authors":[{"term_id":163,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"dknews","display_name":"dknews","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/f56c36580f44a9d8e8535169273499b7dddc82045bcc254bf7d154ff6b485f62?s=96&d=mm&r=g","first_name":"","last_name":"","user_url":"https:\/\/dknews.dz","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35416"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dknews.dz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=35416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}