the essential
This Thursday, the Tarbais World Cup opens its doors until Sunday January 26. Review of the forces present with the greatest in the world, the brother of a world star and the presence of a great hope from Toulouse.
“Tarbes is always the most important international stage for us, as for everyone else. At Les Petits As, all the best in the world are there, always. It is therefore an excellent cursor to know where we are and what areas for improvement there are,” admitted Cédric Raynaud, 14 & U manager at the FFT before his visit to Tarbes for this 43rd edition of the Mondial Wilson.
And for the young French, the road remains very long in this dozen Tarbes. Because from this Thursday morning, some will enter the running for the national qualifications. Two days, three matches to hope to arrive this weekend in an international qualifying table of the same format. And even if this should increase, some Tricolores should be there, just to confront the representatives of the 50 nations present in Bigorre.
Among these international players, we will find the young Spaniard Jaime Alcaraz, brother of the 3rd player in the world, who passed through Tarbes in 2017, who will compete in the international qualifications this weekend.
Alcaraz will be present in Tarbes
If we hope to find the Tricolores at the meeting next week, with Mario Vukovic and Evan Giurescu as standard bearers, we will keep a keen eye on the performances of Occitanie residents Arthur Salafa (Roquettes TC) and Thomas Grevoul (Mèze) already present last year. Among the girls, you will have to watch Capucine Dournes, Elsa Goy and Ambre Le Prunenec.
But facing our Tricolores, the best foreigners will be determined to come and win in Bigorre. And we will have to be wary among the Boys of the Greek Pagonis, the Russian Nikita Berdin who trains with Mouratoglou or the Japanese Hotelier and the Egyptian Genedy.
Among the girls, the British Megan Knight will act as the No. 1 favorite while we will still have to closely watch the Latvian Matvejeva, the Japanese Miyazawa or even the Ukrainian Bielinska and the Swede Berstein.
