Madadman wrote:

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What's the advantage of playing under a license to playing under the Foreigner Administrative license?

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You can't play team tennis, of course, because you don't belong to a club. And as you're not a club member, you also wouldn't get wildcards (or preferential treatment) in your home club's tournament.

There's really not much difference in terms of money tournaments, although it does make life easier - you're automatically accepted, your ranking will be correct and automatically updated three times a year (as opposed to having to apply and give 'justifications' about your level and then getting one attributed to you which might be some way off).

My initial assumption about Oli is that he intends to play team tennis. Saint Gaudens is about an hour by car from Toulouse airport (not that close by French standards - there are a dozen or so equally good clubs in Toulouse itself - but close enough - and presumably the club is open/welcoming towards British players, given that Eden chose it quite recently). I wouldn't think he'd take a club licence just to play money tournaments, doesn't really seem likely, and how would he know what club to pick? The site says he had his best domestic ranking in 2012 but it doesn't say if it was a club one or an administratif one and the accessible records don't go back that far - and he must have been pretty young so less likely he was linked to a club).

Mind you, it's a clay court club (with 4 clay courts, I think, and some synthetic ones,  three inside courts, and four outside). Don't think of Oli as a clay courter but ....