We can already tell you, Bastien Blanqué et Thomas Leygue will not be French champions for a fourth time in a row...

La injury to the French number 1 and his long-term unavailability will inevitably reshuffle the cards of this 2025 French championship, but he is not the only notable absentee from the biggest meeting on the French circuit.

Bordeaux Thomas Vanbauce and the Toulonnais Alexander Toppin were both, a few weeks apart, victims of a cruciate ligament rupture.

Any movement in the 12 automatically qualified pairs?

So there are three major absentees who were all part of the 12 pairs automatically qualified for this 2025 French championship.
So let's take stock, 3 players find themselves without a partner:

  • Bastien Blanqué (associated with Thomas Leygue)
  • Johan Bergeron (associated with Thomas Vanbauce)
  • Nicolas Molinero (associated with Alexandre Toppin)
Thomas Vanbauce Worlds 2024

Note that for Thomas Vanbauce, the injury is less serious. It's about a posterior cruciate ligament rupture, a serious attack but which, in his case, did not require surgery.

Result : the chances of seeing the duo again Thomas Vanbauce / Johan Bergeron French French Championships remain intact, provided that Thomas is operational again by September.

BBs internationally, but also in France?

This might seem obvious, Bastien Blanqué et Johan Bergeron have decided since 2024 to partner full-time on the international circuit and have already achieved very good results. Several titles on the FIP circuit, a second round in Roland Garros Major or even more recently at Major of Rome where they came out of qualifying with flying colors.

But for the most assiduous, this also brings back some memories in the French championship, Bastien and Johan won this competition 3 times together: in 2017, 2018 and 2019.

It is therefore quite natural that we see the two players teaming up for the occasion, in the event that Thomas Vanbauce obviously cannot return in time next September, which would make them the new seeded 1 and big Favourites of these 2025 French championships.

Molinero, an opportunity for a player to avoid regional championships?

The Marseillais Nicolas Molinero finds himself orphaned of his great friend Alexander Toppin and this could provide the opportunity to a player in the French top 30 to join him in the pairs automatically qualified.

Some alternatives which may be viable for the 23rd French player:

  • Yannis Muesser : the Strasbourg resident could well do the business of Miller, his very offensive style of play is very similar to that ofAlexander Toppin and could give a balanced and complete pairThey have even already shared the track several times, notably with a title in Dijon in P1000.
  • Pierre-Vincent : even if it is associated with Nicolas Rouanet, the player ofMind Padel might be interested in avoiding regionals, being physically diminished. This could allow him to recover properly and arrive directly in the final table of the 2025 French championships.
  • Ludovic Cancel : the two men have already been partners and P1000 winners together, the opportunity for Nicolas Molinero to be supported by a player reliable and experienced of the French circuit.

Personalized unfortunate injuries which reshuffle the cards of these French championships and which also add a little more suspense with theabsence of the triple champion pair, the opportunity for new faces to assert themselves on a major competition in France.

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