Sarreguemines is seething. While behind the scenes, little hands continue to activate to set up the Internationals, which will begin Monday for the first time in their history with an endowment of 25,000 dollars, the picture becomes clearer.
Behind the French Calvin Hémery, 338e world seed and probable No. 1 seed in the tournament, the Sarreguemines meeting should be able to count on the presence of Messin Harold Mayot, not so often at work in the region, to make his poster shine a little more. The winner of the Forbach tournament, Dan Added, will also be there, as will the promising Titouan Droguet, 496e world championship in Challenger not so long ago.
This Thursday, the organizers of the event unveiled the invitations. In qualifying, Nicolas Schwartz, tournament director, thus offered a sesame to Julien Kaufmann, a young 17-year-old Sarregueminois classified 3/6, while the Lorrainers Antoine Vincent (-4/6, ASPTT Metz) and Antoine Monaco (-1 / 6, Thionville Moselle) will also have a chance to face a competition between the 600e and the 1000e world place. In the final table, the Alsatian Martin Breysach will be there alongside Adrien Gobat and Amaury Raynel. But if there is one name to remember from this batch of 2021, it is this: at 25 years old, the local Hugo Schott joined the great Sarreguemines painting for… the seventh time.
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