Week 41 - ITF ($10K) - Kantaoul, Tunisia Hard

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

RE: Week 41 - ITF ($10K) - Kantaoul, Tunisia Hard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

You have to have a French licence, I'm afraid, in order to access the site.

The main FFT site is:

www.fft.fr/

but to get into your 'espace', where you can look everyone up, you need a password etc. which you get when you take out a licence, which everyone does in September.

I don;t think there's any other way, sorry.

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
You have to have a French licence, I'm afraid, in order to access the site.

The main FFT site is:

www.fft.fr/

but to get into your 'espace', where you can look everyone up, you need a password etc. which you get when you take out a licence, which everyone does in September.

I don;t think there's any other way, sorry.

Ah! Thanks.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Mirabelle and Buzean lose out 5-10 in the MTB of their doubles.

By the way, just worth mentioning that the French licence costs 27 euros. And there are about 1.2 million licence holders. (Although a reasonable number will be under 18s and so pay a lower rate).

But any which way, it's a sizeable amount of money......

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
Mirabelle and Buzean lose out 5-10 in the MTB of their doubles.

By the way, just worth mentioning that the French licence costs 27 euros. And there are about 1.2 million licence holders. (Although a reasonable number will be under 18s and so pay a lower rate).

But any which way, it's a sizeable amount of money......

Can I get a licence without being a player .

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Normally, the licence is given out as part of the cost when you join a club.

But (a) there are some small clubs which only cost about 70 euros a year to join, for instance, (which incidentally gives you full playing rights, all year round, for free), and

(b) most clubs will let you just take out a licence, without actually joining, if they know you don;t live where you can use the club.
So you pay the 27 euros, and that's it (it's actually a benefit to the club because they get brownie points from the federation for increasing their licence numbers - the federation doesn't get any money from the normal club membership, just the licence fees, so they want the most licence holders possible, and incentivise clubs to increase them).

So, net net, yes no real problem.

In fact, it's what I do, as I'm not much in France now and want the licence - which allows me also to play some tournaments when I'm there, as well as spy on all players on-line ! - without having to pay the full membership - the club I belong to is quite a big one and annual fees are about 200 euros.

You just need to contact a club president and ask if you can just take out a licence. Some will say no, or say you have to be a 'summer member' as well (lower cost) but someone is bound to say yes. (I was a full member of my club for a long time, so it's a bit easier for me).

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 16th of October 2015 05:48:54 PM

TennisLover · Strong Club Player

Coup Droit wrote:
Normally, the licence is given out as part of the cost when you join a club.

But (a) there are some small clubs which only cost about 70 euros a year to join, for instance, (which incidentally gives you full playing rights, all year round, for free), and

(b) most clubs will let you just take out a licence, without actually joining, if they know you don;t live where you can use the club.
So you pay the 27 euros, and that's it (it's actually a benefit to the club because they get brownie points from the federation for increasing their licence numbers - the federation doesn't get any money from the normal club membership, just the licence fees, so they want the most licence holders possible, and incentivise clubs to increase them).

So, net net, yes no real problem.

In fact, it's what I do, as I'm not much in France now and want the licence - which allows me also to play some tournaments when I'm there, as well as spy on all players on-line ! - without having to pay the full membership - the club I belong to is quite a big one and annual fees are about 200 euros.

You just need to contact a club president and ask if you can just take out a licence. Some will say no, or say you have to be a 'summer member' as well (lower cost) but someone is bound to say yes. (I was a full member of my club for a long time, so it's a bit easier for me).

-- Edited by Coup Droit on Friday 16th of October 2015 05:48:54 PM

Thanks for that CD. I will try it.