Here's an update on the St Antonin Ladies visit to Arcachon:
Over the weekend of 19/20th of October, the St Antonin Ladies Tennis team travelled to Arcachon, near Bordeaux, for the finals of the French Ladies Tennis tournament (Les Raquettes). Having previously won the departmental, regional and inter-regional stages of the competition, the ladies had exceeded all expectations in just setting out on this last journey.
The competition was, as expected, hot, but St Antonin did well in coming 6th out of eight teams that made it to the finals - to be 6th in all of France was some achievement, so a big "well done" is in order!
The French Tennis Federation (FFT) organised the event and it was pleasing to see FFT representatives from Mid-Pyrenees supporting our team. An unexpected honour was the attendance of the President of the FFT, Jean Gachassin, at the team dinner on Saturday night - he took time to speak to every team and made everyone welcome.
The team, consisted of (standing L-R): Marian Gunnis, Christine Gee, Shirley Cooper (captain), Sue Bargery and (seated) Irene Bacle (Regional FFT organiser for mid-pyrenees) and Cendrine Bolot.
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