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Welcome again, my friends. This week the match we shall be reviewing is
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LaVieCestLol and Laromande are respectively french and Swiss YTPers that have recently come onto the scene over the course of the last year and a half, and hail from an-all french collective group known as The Idiocrates, in which one can also find the now-familiar-in-the-tennis-scene names of Sid(Sid1325) and Myst076. Both have recently gained notable presences in the world of YTP Tennis, particularly in the case of La Vie who has recently set a record for being the newest player to win a site-sanctioned Tennis Tournament in the shortest amount of time, and the first one to win as a replacement player. He is currently one of the most respected new names of the game and has become an integral part of the community, currently in a slew of matches involving many veteran names. Before he would get to this point however he would start small, and the match he would play with laromande, a female YTPer known for her very technically corrosive and emotionally driven style, would be his very first. This would also however feature an incredibly novel concept, which would give both players their first notable attention from the central tennis world leading it to receive considerable praise from tennis regulars for it's inventiveness and the trade of ideas that came out of it.
The notoriously unique quality of this match is that it features entirely homemade footage and audio, created by both players and added into their respective rounds, offering a much more personal form of communication that has not been seen previously in Tennis. La Vie has said that it came about as a random thought from the matches beginning, and it plays with the curiousness and ponderance toward of the concept of what exactly makes a "YouTube Poop" by having the edited existing material that would, in it's commonly accepted form make it a YTP, being made up of material created to exist for the sole purpose of appearing in this match.
Due to this match also being almost entirely in French in both dialogue and writing, La Vie has also graciously assisted me in providing full translations of all the dialogue spoken throughout the match, in addition to providing context to much of the events in each round to provide better understanding for the majority of readers. The names Jean and Lucie heard frequently throughout the video are respectively the real names of both La Vie and laromande.
Round 1This round and the next 2 that follow it serve to be the establishing stage of this match, experimenting with the prospects and possibilities of an all homemade footage match in a variety of different methods. The video's translated title is "Artistic Integrity 101 – Original Material" and begins with a hand drawn title card that says "DOGMA #1325 “YTP TENNIS : LAVIE CESTLOL VS. LAROMANDE” –
FIRST CHAPTER : ARTISTIC INTEGRITY 101 – ORIGINAL MATERIAL".
Within a flurry of layered segments of video that appears to have been filmed from the seat of a car, we hear the first audible dialogue from La Vie which is “You’re still listening to RADIOM, it’s 1 AM, and apparently, I’m still eager to go on with my highjacking”, a reference to a time where he worked as a small-time radio host and at one point stole the air for two hours, broadcasting a random selection of music. More layering tricks are done to the initial video in a very free-frame sort of way, and ambient music in varying weights is heard throughout the whole video and would also play a major part in setting the atmosphere for all the videos to come. At one point we also see recorded footage of the very preview window in which the serve is being constructed, and the camera viewing it takes us away and out of the room, and down a hallway where a sudden mirror effect is accentuated by the sudden flick of a light. The remainder of the video is all of the same filmed footage edited very minimally, and we are taken outside where it is currently dark, and the video ends with La Vie himself stepping in front of the camera, and "cutting" to off with a clap of his hands, which punctually ends the first round.
Round 2This continues the development of the match starting with video of a drawing with Laro speaking “Jean against Laro, the second round" with "ARTE” layered over it in the audio. It features largely new added homemade footage with the majority of the edited previous round taking up the video's end, which largely footage of the countryside, including a clip where a flower is held to the center frame. Throughout this segment laro goes into a rant about products made in Belgium saying “I don’t understand why, in this country, these products aren't for Switzerland, they’re Belgian-BELGIAN, Everything is written in French, but also in Dutch. Do I understand Dutch? No, I don’t understand Dutch. Why are you writing stuff in Dutch, god dammit, look at that.Why are there Belgian products? It tastes like Stromae!”(who is a famous Belgian singer)Why are the Belgians making cookies? Why are they making music?” all while the word "WHY?" is repeated over all this dialogue, in mocking reference to a francophone vlogger known as Norman Fait des Vidéos. "PLAGARISM IDIOCRACY" flashes on the screen in reference to their own Idiocrates group who have a small trademark in making fun of these kind of people in their videos. Throughout this segment several objects including the arm and hand of the video's maker, and the cookies and cookie boxes themselves are masked out and duplicated across the screen, which becomes a defining part of this video. The first bits of the previous round begin to appear about 25 seconds in, as “You’re still listening to RADIOM ...” from the serve along with bits of the previous video start to finally appear, creating an interesting transition. As the title would be called "nature and industry", this would be the "industry" half while the video following it, consisting of mostly the countryside, would account for it's "nature" half. The industry half ends with laro speaking “My favourite ...”, followed by “... my highjacking ...” from the serve, and “It’s that one.” pointing to the song on the CD on the table. The video ends with laro saying “... because it’s going to be daytime, and it’ll last until late at night. So I wanna work at daytime and ... maybe it’s a change of vibe ...”
Round 3The ambient tone of the match sees a development and continuation in LaVie's second volley, which adds in a lot more footage of trees and forest and also serves to use much more of the previous round throughout it. He introduces an idea here of responding to some of the dialogue presented in round 2, saying “Well, you see, Laro, speaking of Belgian Products, I don’t really know what to think of it” in the midst of usage of “Do I understand Dutch? No, I don’t understand Dutch.” and also saying “If Stromae tastes like (inaudible) Why even bother?” in between reusage of the "TASTES LIKE STROMAE" audio("Inb4 French Fry" flashes on the screen at this point as well). This round also serves to add some really interesting visual layering segments in various parts in the video, while in the audio we hear overlapping segments of dialogue that reuses peices of Laro's belgian rant, and also uses audio of La Vie explaining the concept of YTP on his radio show and talking about a film he had been making earlier that never got finished. Later on the video there is new footage of him getting into a car and it is here we hear more audio of him reading an article on YTP from a site called Madamoizelle.com and his chewiki article, with this being the first time that we hear English being spoken in this match to which he shouts “I DON’T KNOW HOW TO FUCKING PRONOUCE! I CAN’T
PRONOUNCE THAT! FUCK!” in self-commentary of his own English pronunciation. At the videos cutoff we hear him end the video saying “Be careful, If you have epilepsy, go hide.”
Round 4It is here that is considered to be a pivotal turning point in the match, as laro would now do something that not only fully embraces the running concept of the match but also adding incredible artistic weight to it from this round onward. Here she suddenly adds in a pathos element, turning the video into something much more personal and intimate. This is accentuated by much added footage showing herself minus her face, particularly at a scene where she is obscured as all but a silhouette proceeding to undress herself, which considerably is one of the rounds strongest moments within the established context. Furthering this is the added footage of a man interviewing himself with “Why am I living?” in the beginning being heard, along with “I'm sick of that, I can’t take it anymore” amidest the rest of the previous round being mixed in with it, mostly all still completely recognizable. The overlapping voices from round 3 are mixed in with either Laro talking about her family or reading a book of some kind, with later recapitulation of the same voices as well as a snip of the "Belgian products" dialogue spoken by La Vie, with at one point having both Laro and La Vie together say "Stromae", each from the respective round they said it in. The video's second half is identified as a "bonus TV segment" with two faceless characters interacting with each other as laromande laughs at it throughout. The exchange of dialogue between them goes:
Faceless Character 1 - “Oh hey! What is going on here?”
Faceless Character 2 – “Oh Benedict! It’s you!”
Faceless Character 1 – “I didn't think I’d find you here! So, what’s up?”
Faceless Character 2 – “Well, as you see, I’m playing my synthesizer.”(in which a Korg suddenly appears on their lap)
Faceless Character 1 – “Oh I’m looking at your pretty lamp. It’s really pretty. And it's a lamp, too."
Faceless Character 2 – *Inaudible*
Faceless Character 1 – “What? No, not at all! Hum ... I was just passing by, that’s all. Erm
Faceless Character 2 – “Errr ... okay. See .. ya ...”
This ends with the sudden interjection of La Vie's "I DON'T KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE THAT" yelling from the previous round, which zooms out of a camera lens held by laro, who's face is blurred out and the previous round seen chroma-keyed in a ceiling window. A similar instance of that occurs earlier in which new filmed footage zooms chroma-keyed out of a book and zooms into the previous round which is chroma-keyed into the second book, showing much increased inventiveness.
Round 5La Vie considers this video to be one of his two best rounds of the match, the other being Round 9. The video begins with a heavy freeframe-esque treatment of the ending camera lens segment from the previous round while in the audio we hear Laro singing a Stromae song in a way that is loudly saturating her microphone in conjugation with La Vie twiddling a radio to emanate noise from it. Later following new recorded footage with La Vie saying "Okay, God Fucking Dammit" on a cropped video layer, we see under it edited clips of the previous "bonus tv segment" which then follows the center video going to full screen, viewing a drawing that is of a visual representation of both La Vie and Laro tennising on a court, which is titled COMMUNICATIVE TENNIS with La Vie written to say “Yeah, it’s tough” and Laro written to say “It’s tough but it’s funny too”. It then transitions to new footage of La Vie holding title cards announcing Round 5 of the match, with Laro's “I sick of that, I can’t take it anymore.” playing over it as all the footage turns blue and enters into a hallucinogenic layering segment, which follows into a loud distorted noise before cutting suddenly to the footage unedited, in which La Vie explains “Usually, I went there to play, even though it was a private property, but now I can’t anymore” about an area he is filming. Another scene of ambiance comes in as black and white footage, which uses the full body shot of Laro from the previous round and also produces a card that says "I was moved by the last round but do not know how to respond to it without sounding and looking like an arrogant and insulting dickhead", with the previous undressing footage playing over it in an even thinner silhouette to the point of being just an outline. The card is then flipped over which reads "OMG I'm self conscious! So meta and deep! HOLY FUCKERY!" both sides of which are in English. He then proceeds to crumple the paper up as the video enters into a hyperactive flurry of different videos over a soft yet strong wind-like noise, which builds in intensity before cutting to a more controlled segment, involving another layering trick using the cat from previously. “I DON’T KNOW HOW TO PRONOUNCE” re-enters along with “FUCK OFF-OFF-OFF-OFF” in a midst a series scene-style editing, including La Vie asking “Okay, from there, where do we go? ... It’s hard, really.” The COMMUNICATIVE TENNIS drawing reappears in the same added footage here, which then dissolves into the footage of the same drawing used earlier before ending the video on edits made to the "bonus tv special" before.
Round 6Here (with the title of "We should have got rid of Zoidberg")much of the video is made up of added footage with very little of the previous round being visually present, but a lot more emotional and thematic elements are introduced here which is a step further in some respects from those introduced in round 4. It begins with an intro of Laro climbing into bed and saying "good night", which then switches to an inverted clip of "Round 6 - my turn" being written in reverse to a song that begins with a harsh noise and intercut with footage of Laro playing drums. It then inserts over the english-written title card from La Vie's previous round with another note that says "“I’M SCARED But I exist. [...] I try to assume myself [...] I’m focusing[...] I want to change [...] I’ve been to the point of changing [...]" while we hear her say “Is that feminine? That’s thin and all ... no it’s not. It’s ugly” hinting toward the thoughts and struggles of feeling suitably female (as Laro is transgender). Following this is a segment involving the use of numerous digital clocks in which one has the previous round chroma-keyed inside of it, with Laro saying “It’s Monday, in June ... it’s 20°C in my room. It’s between 1:40 and 1:49. AM.” with her phone then saying “At the next top, it’ll be 1 hour, 52 minutes, 30 seconds.” and Laro responding back with “Here you go, everything’s in place. Sort of. The same hour.” She then seems to take on the persona of a voice inside of her head that yells “GOD DAMMIT LARO! Your bed is a mess, what do you call that, clean?” and “Shut up! Have you heard yourself talking? Oh yeah, totally not pervy, that wallpaper, awesome! Congrats! Write better than that, it’s disgusting! Tighten your legs, dammit”(between this there is a brief segment showing footage of a skype call in which Sid and La Vie can both be seen present in which she remarks “Sid, you’re such a pig!” in an ironic tone). She then is heard saying “I’m sick of listening to myself as time passes” as another "voice" of hers says “Oh yeah, that’s right, now be all depressed and shit “Oooh I’m sad because I wanna be like that” but there’s nothing in you that looks like what you wanna fucking be!”, which has her finishing with “You’re not doing any effort”. Here La Vie's question of “From there, where do we go?” returns from the previous round, which then returns to Laro now talking in an intense tone that towards the end gives off the feeling of desperation and sadness: “I DON’T KNOW WHERE WE GO I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING I DO
NOTHING WITH MY LIFE ... audio glitches”
The next scene has a complete reversal in tone, with the previous one still however present though more underlying than previously, creating an interesting contrasting duality of feeling and tone throughout the remainder of this video. While one layer of audio has Laro speaking rather pleasantly with “Hello everyone! I hope everyone’s all right, Laromande here and we’re here for a searching challenge video! Oh hey, I gotta cross the road! ... Hey, that Subway is still closed, I’ve been waiting for years, I’ve had it! Aaah fuck, where is it?’” under it we hear a second voice that says “I want to break everything ... it’s not pretty, it’s all difformed
and weird”. With "I could have" flashing on screen ending this segment, which video-wise is all added footage taken around a public transport. There is then a more upscale visual treatment done of a complete stranger that Laro happens to capture on film, which then resets to the default footage in which she is saying “Thank you very much! Good luck! ... here you go. I’ve given people my blessing. I’ve done something good, so now my karma should be good. I’ll be whatever I want to be in my next life! Right? Hehehe, that’s funny. Fuck.”
The peice of paper that ends the round reads “I’m only hanging out with guys, I’m making YTPS, but almost no girl likes this. I listen to hardcore, but ... - Nothing in me ... is close to the ... that how I ... feel then. If even me.”
Round 7This round (titled "I am all German Swiss") begins rather intensely with a lot of delay used on all the existing audio and particular amplification of lower frequencies, saying in the mix "18th and 19th of June 2014 ... Seventh Round ... I am all German Swiss ..." before going to a big 7 in which he is heard saying "I could have had something calmer to begin my tennis career, but this is fine by me." to point out how at the current point it has been definitely no ordinary first match for any player. The next snippet of audio has him saying "MICHEL THOR
ON VOCAROO, THIRD TAKE, YEAH, FUCK" in reference to a solo project working in folk-shoegaze music that has been active since 2013, which he would sometimes post lo-fi recordings under this name on Vocaroo. The video here is increasingly corrupted, with much of the previous footage being reduced to a hidden layer that can only barely be seen, while using Laro's self-depreciative dialogue from the previous round throughout this segment with La Vie saying "“Idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot , IDIOT, shut up.” over it, before transitioning abruptly to new fresh footage, showing La Vie in person walking down the edge of a small road. “To accept delirium or not. What it means for all of us. Intempestive trolling from the Internet Universe.” The phone footage from the previous round is manipulated with new footage to say “At the next top, it’ll be- Fourteenth minute ... maybe. I may be late too” which shows snapshot recaps of older rounds before then transitioning into the emotive segment from the previous round in which La Vie responds to "From here, where do we go? I DON’T KNOW WHERE WE GO I DON’T KNOW WHAT I’M DOING I DO NOTHING WITH MY LIFE” with “You think that i'd know where we're going?” // “Or maybe that, I don't know. We probably have other qualities.” This is then loudly intersparsed with La Vie singing loudly a song by french artist Pierre et Bastien called "Facho", in which the lyrics are “WE ARE ALL SPITTING IN EACH OTHER'S HANDS. WE'RE
LOOKING FOR AN IDENTITY -- THAT PLEASES ME!” The drum segment from Round 6 is then added on here with La Vie playing bass and singing, creating a musical progression at this point in the match. Following this La Vie provides a bit of thoughtfullness in talking about how a fellow YTPMVer and friend of his named Metalix said "that people were inherently bad. I disagree with that but in the end, I wonder if i'm not the proof of that, trying to always be loved in a sort of egotistic way", while "“You're still listening to RADIOM” plays in the midst of it. This is briefly interrupted by Laro saying “Thank you very much” before La Vie resumes with “But i'm probably rambling by now. I bet you're laughing right now, Laugh now ... okay, thanks for laughing.” The ending segment features a pseudo conversation of dialogue between Laro and La Vie, using Laro's dialogue from the previous round while the video shows La Vie returning from the street he walked down before, speaking into a microphone for his last two lines of dialogue:
“I’ve given people my blessing. I’ve done something good, so now my karma should be good. I’ll be whatever I want to be in my next life! Right? Hehehe”
“In the end ... i'm missing something in the end, now that i'm thinking of it. And the
simple fact that we're doing something together, the both of us, it reassures me for what's to come. You might find it derisory ...”
“Hehehe."
"But it isn't for me."
"That's funny."
"Oh no. People might find it derisory but it isn't for me."
"F-u-u-u-u-unn-y-y-y-y"
"Fuck."
"Fuck."
Round 8This video begins with a definitive atmosphere in its utilization of dark audio and use of colors, with the first new added footage being of a rainstorm seen from around Laro's house. A cinemagraphically interesting trick is done with the camera and that both the audio and the video fade in to show that this is actually being filmed from inside a window, which was alluded in the footage previous of it. Much of the following takes on the appearance of a short film, very somber in tone, showing several shots of a cup of tea being made and a headless shot of Laro herself, before entering into the text for Round 8.
Now showing footage of a sign on a house, Laro mentions that "However, we're just 4 kilometers away from the linguistic border, that invisible line that cuts switzerland in two parts : francophone on one side, germanophone on the other". We then cut to books that say "ISLAM AND CAPITALISM / THE CHARIA : FROM THE SOURCES TO THE APPLICATION – A PLURAL CONCEPT / SMALL TREATY FOR FREEDOM OF LIVING." At this point only a very small trace of the previous round has been used so far which is nearly half the video in, but the immediate next segment is a continuation of the musical segment from the previous round. Here the beat is changed and small treatments are done to the clips from previously, which changes very little visually about the segment. An exchange of dialogue once again follows this reprising elements from the last couple of rounds, using the increasingly corrupted video from the immediate previous video(laro speaking first):
"Shut up ! Have you heard yourself talking? What do you call that, clean?” Such a
pig. Absolutely not pervy."
“Laugh now. Fourteenth minute.”
“.. in my next life ... life ... life ...”(in which LIFE appears on screen)
This now shows footage of Laro feeling and pondering over a wilting plant in a noticeably desaturated color scheme("Okay, thank you" from La Vie, "Eighth episode : Pain." from Laro, along with the following:
Jean – "It reassures me for what's to come. You might find it derisory ... but it isn't for"
Lucie - “Well I don't know what i'm doing, I don't know if that's important for me, I don't
know what matters or not, because i've got depression, because I don't know what i'm ...”,
when then transitions to Laro curled in a fetal position, partially covering her face (which is obscured by a pixelation effect already) and making twitching movements as if to hold in crying, while her voice is heard saying“Well I don't know what i'm doing, I don't know if that's important for me, I don't know what matters or not, because i've got depression, because I don't know what i'm ...”
It then cuts to video of Laro filming herself in the mirror saying “Here you go, it's 7:12 AM, and sadly for me ... I haven't slept yet.” and then to a supermarket where she remarks “I just realized that, shit, Lotus also exists here. Pop, do you know Cailler?(a respective reference a very close friend of Laro's, a semi-active belgian YTPer, as well as Cailler the chocolate brand) Cailler, you know, Cailler? The Cailler factory is right there, well, not where I am actually, but it's close, I could go there by foot if I wanted to. But I don't.” At the video's end, Laro is once again in the fetal position as before pretending to cry, the round being an overall further advancement of the emotion being used throughout the match.
Round 9La Vie's final round brings everything together in a very well executed closure on his side, using new added footage of record player that quickly rewinds and fast-fowards many of the previous rounds making for a great intro: and also holding a title card that reads the following:
IRL TENNIS / DOGMA #1325
LAVIE CEST LOL // LAROMANDE (10 ROUNDS)
ROUND 9 : FUCK WHAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE (AND OTHER AGREEMENT FIELDS)
LENGTH : ?
ROUND AUTHOR : LAVIE CESTLOL
THANKS : LARO, SID, CYMS, KONTCHA, EVP, JFCLG, LOTUS
BYDL0, SKM, METALIX, PWOX, LUYI, BASLESPAD, GIMILIK, BLAKE(the following of whom are all people from the community that followed the match with great interest)
La Vie now officially opens the round saying "Ninth round. I'm in Toulouse, i just got my computer back.My computer, that fucking MacBook that breaks every six months. Here you go, a pretty sight. SiiiGHT-T-T-T-T" and then mentioning that it is 40 degrees Celsius(or 104 degrees Fahrenheit) where is he at, with layer treatments being done to a number of his added footage. He also adds footage of him talking about Occitan Schools called "Calendrettes" in Toulouse. While filming their respective signs over Laro's footage of signs determining the franco-german swiss borders, and then segues quickly into the musical segment, which shows footage of La Vie watching the musical segment from Laro's previous round within it. The video then takes on an intense visual appearance with audio clips from the older rounds all playing at the same time: "That's what you call clean ?/Laugh now./Such a pig/Fourteenth Minute/That's disgusting/I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FUCKING PRONOUNCE" and then over other old footage, has layer of himself saying, "Well, i mean ... it's not ... it's not that ... (coughs) matters (coughs) you give to things." Following a mixmash restatement of « I don't know what i'm doing, I don't know if that's important for me, I don't know what matters or not” / “That's funny.” La Vie delivers the following commentary on Laro's footage of herself, and the match itself:
“You choose not to show your face ... that's actually something I respect. Because I can't. I feel like I can't help but show myself, going all “hey, have you seen me? Have you seen the stuff i'm doing?It's not easy for me to say “I understand”, because i'm not where you are, but there are feelings that you evoke, at least in this Tennis match, that resonates with my own feelings and personal elements."
"I don't have a script, i've wrote one for round 7 but for 9, I don't want to. I don't
know if that's good, but ...”
“You're the one that chooses the things that matters to you.”
“My dear Laro, it's apparently here that I have to leave ... sort of.”
During this part is something sped up in english where La Vie talks about how sometimes there are things and feelings within ourselves that we cant always contain. The video then cuts back to the title card from the beginning now being torn in half, with Laro's speech about Cailler making a reappearance here and the video ending on La Vie's lingering thought of “I need to go to Switzerland some day ..." theraby providing a very effective and contectually meaningful close to his side of the match.
Round 10And the last round of the match serves to extend this even further, becoming a video that La Vie has said "made him cry tears of joy". Interestingly enough while much of the match had comparatively minimal editing this round has segments which are by far the most edited segment of the round. It begins with footage of Laro at a concert for a french band called Gojira (which is connected to an inside joke she shares with Sid), in which she announces she is plagurizing a French Electroclash band called Salut C'est Cool, along with the beginning of the last round, which features a lot of heavy corruption on the video.
Laro then says this in response to La Vie's comment about covering her face:
“You know, you say that i'm not showing my face, it's funny that you talk about it, because it's not really a question of intimacy or to protect my identity, it's some sort of fear of time. Like when i'm watching my videos and I'm like “Hey, I looked like that back then!”, I don't want to
... aaah, what i'm saying isn't clear.
(La Vie comes in between this with again “I ... DON'T ... KNOW ... HOW ... TO ... PRONOUNCE ...”)
“I don't want to see these like something i've done in the past. Even though it'll still be the case and i'll know that but ... well, I also don't like my face in general. That's a good reason too. Although, recently, i've made progress in accepting myself, as well as the ... appearance aspect."
Throughout much of this round the video is Laro sitting on a chair with her face obscured through some means of editing while clips from the previous round play in various windows/shapes around her, while there is also a composite layer showing film of the first round of the match of her computer screen. It also shows her without something obscurring her face although the video is considerably blurred with another composite layer on top.
The text on screen which reads "LAST ROUND, thank you" then transitions into footage of her printing a peice of paper that reads "JEANWOODBOY(an alternate alias for La Vie) LAROMANDE IRLTENNIS RON10LAST / All the best, Lucie. / Synthesis, Summary, Finality, Conclusion, Mystr da biutiful", with a song titled "Mystr le bo" playing as the final song of the match as Laro proceeds to light this paper on fire. The match concludes with the video fading out on a zoom in shot of the first round of the match's title, in sync with a distorted noise that fades to silence.
La Vie has stated that "While I of course can't speak for Laromande, I can safely say that this match is the best thing i've ever done, artistically speaking, in my life so far. And i'm not saying that to just praise Laromande's work, or to just emphasize for the sake of emphasizing, but because it's something which made me go through a lot of thinking, and its creation made me a more complete human being afterwards." As well as calling it "a great artistic expreience, and in all, one of the most humanly things i think i've done in the twenty years i've been on this planet." As a tennis match this breaches creative endevours that once again have almost never been attempted for as long as tennis has existed. I found myself quite stuck on how to review this match in a way that I felt was accurate and suitable, for it expresses and conveys ideas in such a way that is not immediately understandible to most people, especially to non-french speakers, due to it's huge conceptual depth. Once looked into however and fully understood I can very easily echo La Vie's sentiments that he shares about the match, is that it is something truely beautiful and very smartly played out. This is a match that I definitely recommend any of you experienced players to check out if you haven't done so already, maybe not so much to newer people, as this is niether a particularly humorous or visually stunning match, but rather in some ways tennis at the rawest it could ever become possibly. A big thank you to La Vie for providing me translation as well as additional input throughout the course of writing this as well, I very definitely needed it!
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