Roland-Garros: at the tennis club of Blagnac, we vibrated for Gaston, the child of the country

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Night has just fallen on the Blagnac Tennis Club and Hugo Gaston, the club's colt, finally gave up in his fifth set against Dominic Thiem (6-4, 6-4, 5-7, 3-6, 6- 3).

After more than three and a half hours of fierce combat, the young tennis player sees his adventure end at Roland-Garros.

600 kilometers further south, in “his” club in the Toulouse suburbs, pride outweighs disappointment: Hugo, the one everyone knows and appreciates at BTC, was very close to overthrowing world number 3.

“To come back as he did, to win two sets after losing the first two, it's wonderful, insists the president Christophe Caracatsanis.

We believed it!

With two sets everywhere, we said to ourselves that it was possible.

We thought we were reliving the previous meeting against Wawrinka, but this time he did not hold.

“At the back of the room, Hugo's friends and teammates also prefer to remember the good times.

"When we see him again, we will say a big bravo, let go of Sergi Tournié and Maxime Hillhouse.

We are too proud of him.

We went through all the emotions.

He was able to do it!

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Throughout the meeting, they encouraged their buddy.

“The cushioning now!

»They often let go, just before Hugo Gaston tries his favorite gesture, which will be a little less successful at the very end of the game, fatigue obliges.

They know their Hugo inside out and are able to anticipate what he is going to do.

“We know his game, we know when he will trigger his cushioning, they say.

It makes us laugh that he does the same and that his opponents are not always able to read it.

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On the walls, press clippings in honor of Gaston

“Come on Hugo!

“The thirty club members present this Sunday - no more because of the Covid restrictions - never let go, throughout the afternoon, the one who makes proud a whole club and a whole city.

Blagnac is one of the biggest clubs in the region in terms of number of licensees (nearly 1000!).

The team even already has a player of the world top 50 (Albert Ramos).

Perhaps soon two with Hugo Gaston, who benefits in Blagnac from invaluable help, both from the club but also from the communities that accompany him.

The meeting against Thiem, the members of the club followed it between the clay courts where Hugo Gaston trains a good part of the year.

The numerous cuts testify to the list of achievements provided by BTC.

On the walls, recent press clippings highlight the adventure of their leader at Roland-Garros.

The posters of the last twenty editions of the Parisian Tournament are also pinned throughout the room.

It is in this environment that Hugo progressed, after having started in Fonsorbes, a town a little further south, that of his parents.

Now, and even if he lost in the round of 16 at Roland Garros, the world is opening up to him.