While all attention is turning towards  Roland-Garros and the Paris Major , several French people chose to continue their journey on the  FIP Tour  this week.

De  Bucharest to Phuket, via Utrecht, Lisbon and Casablanca The French players are spread across five tournaments, with several pairs capable of playing leading roles. A look at the...  French citizens involved this Friday far from the capital .

Bergeron / Seurin, the last Frenchmen in Bucharest

Au  FIP Gold Bucharest , all French eyes will now be turned towards  Johan Bergeron / Julien Seurin After the eliminations of the other French players competing in Romania, they are  the last French representatives still in the running  in this particularly competitive tournament.

Bergeron and Seurin made a perfect start to their tournament on Thursday by dominating the lucky losers  Bohdan Levchuk / Michal Bartusek, 6/1 6/3 A controlled start against two players ranked respectively  324th and 414th in the world which allows them to arrive with confidence for a much tougher eighth-final.

This Friday, the French will indeed face  Manuel Aragón / Albert Roglan (TS5) , respectively  110th and 95th in the world The Spanish also left no room for doubt in the first round, with a victory  6 / 0 6 / 0  facing the Polish lucky losers  Witold Konopko / Przemyslaw Zalubski The appointment is set.  not before 11:30 p.m. on court 3 .

In case of victory,  Bergeron/Seurin could even play a second match later in the day , since the quarter-finals are scheduled for Friday evening. They would then face the winner of  Sargolini / Espino – Lijó / Gil (TS2) with a quarter planned  not before 18:30 p.m. .

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Suzanna / Piombo want to upset the number 3 seeds in Lisbon

In Lisbon,  Théo Suzanna / Tristan Piombo  They negotiated their entry into the main draw perfectly. Both French players won.  6-2, 6-0 against Benjamin Dufour / Clément Pelt leaving their opponents with only two games to reach the round of 16.

The level of competition will seriously rise this Friday as they will face  Jaume Romera Barceló / Pedro Perry (TS3) Romera,  112th in the world according to the latest FIP ​​rankings He arrives in Portugal brimming with confidence: the Spaniard has just...  win the FIP Silver of Córdoba  and had also won the  FIP Silver of Bandol  this season. Alongside him, the Portuguese  Pedro Perry, world number 165 , also has several references this year, including a  final at the FIP Bronze in Ljubljana  and total  semi-final at FIP ​​Silver in Leiria .

A real test, then, for  Suzanna / Piombo with a place in the quarter-finals up for grabs. The match is scheduled  in third rotation on court 11 In the event of a victory, the French could even play again in the evening, since  The round of 16 and quarter-finals are scheduled for this Friday in Lisbon. .

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In Utrecht, five Frenchmen are still in contention

A tough blow for the French with the early eliminations of  Bastien Blanqué / Maxime Joris , beaten by the 2th seed  Ignacio Archieri / Pablo Sánchez Vicente , But also  Philémon Raichman / Bart van Opstal  defeated by the wild card  Yannick Verwater / Noah Cecchi  6/1 3/6 6/3 and of  Loris Morvan , despite having qualified with his Belgian partner. Now only  Jules Marie / Romain Sichez , who pulled off the good move against the Spanish  Álvaro López Campos / Nicolás Meana Ojanguren, 6/3 6/4 The level will now rise a notch in the face of  Sergio Icardo / Borja Trujillo (TS8) A first real benchmark to aim for for the two Frenchmen, who will enter Court 1  not before 12:30 p.m. .

In women,  Steffi Merah  finds the Dutch woman  Tess De Vocht This partnership is not new: the two players had already shared the track this season, notably at the  London Silver FIP where they had reached the round of 16. They will face the winner of the match between Lena Pluemer / Katharina Hering vs Victoria Nicholas / Chloe De La Mare.

Finally  Marie-Amélie Dardaine / Clara Mansart (TS9)  Will they have a chance? Indeed, they benefit from the withdrawal of the top seed to take her place in the draw. The French women will face [opponent's name] in the first round.  Luciana Renic / Alissa Schmitz  in an eighth programmed  not before 16pm on court 1 Three matches and five French players to follow in the Netherlands, with  several quarter-final places to be won  this Friday.

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Casablanca: A large French contingent to launch the tournament

Le  FIP Bronze of Casablanca  This will certainly be the busiest stage of the week for the French team. The main draw only begins this Friday and  no fewer than twelve French  will be on the Moroccan tracks, with several particularly interesting matches from the round of 16 onwards.

Among the pairs to watch,  Rafael Marquet / Paul Lefèvre  will face their first test against  Joel Olivera Palos / Mohamed Alami (TS6) with a match scheduled  not before 16:30 PM on the central .  Thomas Basso / Nathan Courrin  will also have a tough time dealing with  Larbi Lahlou / Fran Ramirez Navas (TS5) , While  Pierre-Louis Jacquety , partnered with Spaniard Juan José Dominguez, will directly challenge the  seeded 3 Miguel Morales / Alejandro Garcia Calahorro .

The draw was no less lenient.  Sami Iznasni / Raphaël Rubio Having come through qualifying, the two Frenchmen will have the right to  2nd seed Pablo Reina / Marcel Font  for their entry into the table. For its part,  Hugo Virag , partnered with Belgian Hamza Berrahou, immediately takes on the tournament's top favorites,  Pablo Pastor Landaburu / Luis Oliver Artigas (TS1) .

Other French candidates, however, have a more open first round.  Pierre Perez Le Tiec / Guillaume Ledrap  will face  Ali Dawani / Manuel Valcarcel Sanchez , While  Lucas Potel / Natan Etienne They, too, who came through the qualifiers, will face the Portuguese  Tomas Dos Santos Nunes / Martim Nunes , who also went through the qualifying rounds. Finally,  Victor Lethuillier , partnered with Moroccan Zakaryae El Friyakh, will meet  Mehdi Elloumi / Josep Freixas Palomino .

All these first rounds will be played this Friday, starting from  15 hrs  local time.

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Dumoulin, the only French representative in Phuket

Thousands of kilometers from Roland-Garros,  Arthaud Dumoulin  will be the only Frenchman involved in the  FIP Bronze Phuket The Frenchman will play alongside the Swiss player.  Kilian Jordan  and will begin his tournament this Friday against the Indonesian  Justin Kuo  and Spanish  David Quiros Peiro .

On paper, the print offers a  a real possibility of reaching the round of 16  The Franco-Swiss pair avoided the top eight seeds in their opening match. A victory, however, could quickly bring them closer to the tournament favorites.  Lacamoire / Ronco (TS1) .

We will have to wait to follow Dumoulin: his match is scheduled for the  Court 2, after 18 p.m. and a first men's match , either  seventh rotation One last French stage to follow this week on the FIP Tour, at nearly  10,000 kilometers from Paris .

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