CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte
28 FRENCH TENNIS - IN FRENCH - NICOLAS TAPON artwork
CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte

28 FRENCH TENNIS - IN FRENCH - NICOLAS TAPON

  • S2019E28
  • 27:45
  • April 15th 2019

Nicolas Tapon is a French tennis trainer and coach. He has been a highly-ranked team player in the French third and fourth divisions with the Franconville and Enghien clubs, the Athletic Director at second-division USV in the Yvelines Department in France, and a tennis pro at the highly touted Racing Club de France in Paris as well as a top pro in Nantes, France. In the last few years, he has been a personal trainer and Physical Education specialist. He has trained at the former Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy which we now call IMG here in Bradenton, Florida and has a bachelor’s level Physical Education degree from the Université of Bourgogne in France. He has also been a piano player in a rock band for five years

CURMUDGEONLY YOURS -- Richard Bonte

Monday 11:30 am + Wed 5:30 pm

“Curmudgeonly Yours” is a show on ‘comparative modern Western life. The title comes from Richard Bonte’s humorous book of the same name, “Curmudgeonly Yours.” In his sometimes-multilingual show, host and author Richard Bonte interviews guests from different countries to get their take on ideas and problems facing the Western world.


Host Richard Bonte is a Bradenton resident and a native-born New Yorker. He has lived much of his life in Canada, California and Western Europe. He has worn many hats in his life including playwright, bi-coastal actor, teacher, writer, linguist and phonetician. He has advanced degrees from Berkeley, UCLA and the Sorbonne. Richard has written ten novels (including ‘Curmudgeonly Yours’ (2017), been given the FAPA (Florida Authors and Publishers Association) 2018 Silver Award for Humor), several plays and screenplays. He is right now co-writing a new novel set in 1930’s Los Angeles.