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For more than two decades, Seine-et-Marnais Sébastien Poublet work at the service of French tennis, with Constance and Passion. Today coach and physical trainer at National training center (CNE) of Roland-Garrosit supports the best young people towards the highest level.
An actor involved in departmental tennis
Born August 18, 1975 in Montereau, Sébastien Poublet grew up in an atmosphere conducive to the practice of sport. If he did not have the ambition of a professional player career, it was the desire to transmit who animated him in his first years on the courts. To finance my studies, I give tennis lessons in several clubs in the south of the department. These first experiences in teaching reinforced me in this desire to train young people and to advance them, “explains Sébastien Poublet.
His higher education, he naturally pursues them at the UFR Staps From Reims, where he obtained a license as well as the capeps between 1994 and 1998. He completed his career by obtaining state patents. Professor of EPS in the Créteil Academy, he got involved from the start in the training of young people within the Seine-et-Marne League. This local commitment, he never denied it. On the contrary, he has a founding memory: “I have always wanted to contribute to the ascent of young players towards the high level. It was a personal objective, but also a transmission mission. “”
TC Melun as a click
The Melun Tennis Club played a decisive role in this course. By integrating into the men’s team engaged in the French championship in the 1990s, Sébastien discovers the requirements of the high amateur level, and then discovers a dimension of training that immediately fascinates him, physical preparation. I also quickly understood that my technical potential would not allow me to reach the very high level in pure teaching of tennis. On the other hand, my skills in physiology, training and pedagogy of the fact were assets to evolve “.
-A major turning point occurred in the summer of 2006. After several years spent training young people 12-14 year olds for the departmental league, the FFT is looking for a physical trainer to intervene at the France Insep pole with 15-18 year olds. I accepted the challenge without hesitation. At the same time, the Lagardère team is born and leads to a reshuffle of federal technical teams. I take this opportunity to join the pole “. Very quickly, his work was noticed. In 2009, he signed a permanent contract with the federation, sets out for national education and fully joined the high -level environment, detached by the Ministry of Sports to the FFT.
The rest is Mpeshi Perricard
At INSEP, he works with particularly promising generations, such as Lucas Pouillecrowned champion of France for 13/14 years in 2008, but also Pierre-Hugues Herbert or Grégoire Barrère. These years have been intense. I learned enormously alongside these young people, which I saw evolving over several years “. In 2013, Sébastien Poublet joined the National Training Center in Roland-Garros. It is a new environment, even closer to the very high level. He then supervised players classified in the first 100 Worlds, became assistant coach with experienced figures such as Thierry Tulasne or Jérôme Potier. These are not the most fast years in terms of results, but they have been extremely formative. I worked with generations a little less highlighted, while the Tsonga, Gasquet, Simon or Monfils occupied the front of the stage. But it allowed me to learn, to perfect myself. He then accompanies players punctually like Richard Gasquet or Julien Benneteau, and gradually moved into a high -level physical preparation function. When the France Pôle de l’Insp firm, the CNE hosts younger profiles. It is a new generation that arrives, that of the years 1999-2000. Among them, Harold Mayot, winner of the Australian Junior Open in 2020, and especially Giovanni Mpeshi Pericardborn in 2003, which he has been following since his 16 years.
With Giovanni, it is a human and sporty human adventure. I have known him since his beginnings. I saw him evolve, assert himself, gain confidence. To support it until the world’s top 30 today is a privilege. But beyond the ranking, it is long-term support that motivates me. Seeing a youngster crossing the stages, managing the tests, progressing … that’s my mission. He continues today this collaboration in close relationship with his main coach, Emmanuel Planque, and actively prepares the season on clay, with Rome, Hamburg and Roland-Garros of course, then the grass season online in sight.
In parallel, a new experience enriches its career, that of the French women’s team. Last April, Julien Benneteau, then captain of the Fed Cup, offered to join the staff. The adventure is short, but intense. Even if the result was not there, it was an honor to represent France at this level. And, I loved to find this scent of team matches that I knew at TC Melun, this collective dimension of tennis “. At 49, Sébastien Poublet remains more motivated than ever. He continues to transmit, day after day, this requirement and this passion that have shaped his career.
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