Start of the FIP Star Riyhad in Saudi Arabia with the qualifications this Wednesday, May 10 where we will find three Frenchmen, who accompany the three French pairs who go directly into the main draw.

3 French in qualifying

We therefore start with the qualifications with the tricolor pair composed of Thomas Vanbauce and Dorian De Meyer who should logically come out of these qualifications. It may even be the avoid pair for pairs that play qualifiers in the main draw.

Note the presence of the French Quentin Lacoste, player of Padel Touch in Arcachon alongside local Fahad Alsubaie.

This will be the first FIP ​​tournament for Quentin who hopes to finish in the top 500 of the FIP ranking at the end of the season. On paper, the Franco-Saudi pair are favorites against the locals, the Alothman brothers.

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A complicated table but very interesting to follow

At the top of the table, we find Jérémy Scatena alongside the Portuguese who is making his return to the international circuit: Miguel Oliveira. The Franco-Portuguese pair will potentially play their second round against 5 seed Adria Mercadal / Aitor Garcia, players who know each other very well. Suffice to say that it will be a very big game.

Jérôme Inzerillo and Max Moreau will have a very complicated first round against the seeded 4 in the table, the Spanish pair Sergio Icardo / Ignacio Sager.

Finally Adrien Maigret and Dylan Guichard will play their first round against qualifiers. Let's hope there isn't a 100% French confrontation. In the lower part of the table, the French pair will play match winners Clément Geens / Maxime Deloyer against seed 2 Raul Marcos / Mohammed Saadon. As you will have understood, the seeded 2 is a Hispano-Qatarian pair, the Belgian pair therefore has a good chance of getting out of it.

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Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.

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