A stronghold of French tennis, the Quimperlé Tennis Club has just unveiled its squad for the coming season. The 1st division Interclubs start in a fortnight and with its armada, the TCQ should play the leading roles.
Champion of France in 2013 and finalist in 2017, the Tennis Club of Quimperlé is an outsider generally found all the Interclubs of 1st division. The coming season, which will start on November 10th with the reception of Boulogne-Billancourt, should not break the rule. By the voice of his coach, Philippe Huon, the Finnish club has unveiled this Tuesday the list of licensed players, all of whom are likely to come to garnish the 1st team.
The Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas (n ° 16 ATP), recent winner of the Stockholm tournament (his first title) and "who should be in the top 10 by the middle of next season" (dixit Huon), is the flagship rookie . Just behind, Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili (22nd ATP) will also be an asset of choice. Tsitsipas was released Monday at the Masters of Paris-Bercy and Basilashvili is still in the running. "They will come if they want and according to their current form, says Philippe Huon. These guys are like luxury cars, so do not push them too much and avoid getting hurt. "
The rest of the squad will be made up of Slovak Jozef Kovalik (93rd ATP), who was playing in Grenoble last year and is expected to be the No. 1 regular in the TCQ. He escorts the Russian Alexey Vatutin (171), finalist of the Quimper Challenger, this year. "He's a very complete player, not very big but very toned . " Corentin Denolly, one of the French hopes, is the 3rd rookie Quimperloise. The rest of the squad consists of Italian Luca Vanni, regional stage Evan Furness, Belgian Maxime Authom, Jan Satral, Roman Jebavy, Bernabe Zapata, Jakob Johansson Holm and Quentin Coulaud.
TC Quimperlé's home games. November 10 against Boulogne-Billancourt; November 17 against Eaubonne; November 21st against Strasbourg.