Thiago, a champion born at the Tennis Club de Louvigny
By Sports Writing in Caen
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The Adult Open Tournament Louvigny Tennis Club which began on August 16 will end this Sunday, August 28. The final will take place around 3 p.m. It will be followed, around 5 p.m., by the presentation, by the League, of the Club Trainer label, bronze level. A label that the TCL obtained after having formed a few nuggets, including Mathis Lebertre, Adrien Langeart, Tom Ormain, Baptiste Milon, all classified 2nd series, and the young Thiago Carmasol, 9 years old, classified 15/4.
“Thiago is playing today at the USO Mondeville”, specifies Paul Quénet, president of the Tennis Club of Louvigny, successor, in February, of Pascal Schwartz. “We didn’t have a youngster of his level or a coach fully available for intensive training. But we saw it born and progress over three seasons. »
Thiago Carmasol, domiciled in Louvigny and educated in Caen, therefore made his tennis debut on the courts of Loupiac in September 2018, at the age of 6, somewhat by chance.
“I play tennis on a game console”
“Sport occupies a good place in the family,” says Aurélie, her mother. “Sylvio, Thiago’s dad, was a footballer in Regional 1, the uncle selected for the French junior football team and I practiced athletics myself. »
After a 2017-2018 season in a Caen football club, of which he has mixed memories of cold and earthy winter training, Thiago was registered by his parents at TC Louvigny in September 2018. “I played tennis on a game console and I doesn’t live very far from the club. »
Fabrice Libin is in charge of the training, one hour per week. “Thiago came with a lot of desire,” he recalls.
First tournament won
In 2019-2020, training increases to two hours per week. In December 2019, during his first outdoor competition, in Caen, Thiago was spotted by Mathieu Féret, territorial sports adviser, who will follow him, in particular during a detection course in Bayeux.
In 2020-2021, to the three hours of training in Louvigny, still with Fabrice Libin, are added three hours with the departmental tennis committee. Thiago plays 53 games, participates in a national gathering in his category and in several stages of the League in Honfleur. In summer 2021, he is upgraded during his first tournament in yellow balls (young people are trained in tennis with softer, red, orange or green balls).
Third French in its category
The young champion asserts himself in 2021-2022 with 8h30 of weekly training shared between the USOM and the Calvados committee, 56 wins in 81 games. “I remember a victory in yellow balls, in April in Évreux, 4-6 7-6 12-10 against a player of the upper age category. »
Next season, Thiago, the third French player in his category out of 2,900 licensees (born in 2013), plans ten hours of training and an adjustment of his schooling in CM1. “We are not pushing. He is passionate, ”confirms his parents.
He even plays at home, against a wall or in the garage of the family business fitted out during confinement.
And when we ask him what he will do when he grows up, there is no room for doubt: “I will be a professional player, in the top 10.”
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