A winner and true friend - Bartoli on France boss Deschamps

A winner and true friend - Bartoli on France boss DeschampsImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Didier Deschamps played 103 times for the France national team and has managed them in 183 matchesByMichael EmonsBBC Sport journalistPublished4 minutes agoMarion Bartoli and Didier Deschamps are both French sporting icons.Bartoli - a former Wimbledon champion. Deschamps - a World Cup winner as both a player and manager.On Tuesday, Deschamps will lead France into their World Cup semi-final against Spain (20:00 BST).In the build-up to that match, Bartoli spoke to BBC Sport's Katie Gornall about her friendship with Deschamps and gave an insight into the man hoping to lead France to more global success.Playing tennis with Bartoli and padel with Zidane and IniestaImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Bartoli met Deschamps at an awards ceremony shortly after winning the Wimbledon women's singles title in 2013After Bartoli won Wimbledon in 2013, French newspaper L'Equipe named her their female Champion of Champions.She met Deschamps, who had become France boss a year earlier, at the award ceremony."We have 13 years of friendship, which is something I massively cherish because I know he's under so much pressure," said Bartoli, 41."He comes to Dubai, where I live, quite often. He loves his tennis... now he has moved into padel, which I tease him about."He is very funny. He always takes the time to reply to me, always takes the time to answer back, is always asking me where I am in the world."He knows my daughter really well and he knows my husband well because they play padel together. I see him as a true friend."It is not just Bartoli's husband who takes on Deschamps, 57, at padel.Zinedine Zidane - his World Cup-winning team-mate in 1998, and the man likely to be the next France boss - is among his regular opponents, as is Spanish World Cup winner Andres Iniesta.But Bartoli would prefer Deschamps to return to playing h...