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Unusual places for playing beach tennis

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Monday, 25 April 2016 07:55

Unusual places for playing beach tennis

Popularity of beach tennis grows not only because of good mood and energy, but also because the international tournaments are held at the famous and most beautiful beaches in the world, attracting more spectators and participants. During the tour top players travel to different corners of the Earth, meeting the beauty of the host countries and cities. BTRussia.com decided to ask BT stars about the most original and unusual places, where they ever played or wanted to play in the future.

The victory in number of unusual places to play BT for sure belongs to Hoarau sisters from France. Matilda share to us about her experience playing beach tennis on a catamaran and even a volcano.

Mathilde Hoarau

BTRussia: Matilda, tell us how came the idea to play beach tennis in unusual places?

Mathilde Hoarau: Well I had idea to make something unusual, because i wanted to find a way to communicate about beach tennis, to make people be interested about that. And i wanted that people discover my beautiful Island! So I had the idea to go on one of the most famous place of the Island: the volcano. It's a beautiful curiosity and discovery of the Island.

BTRussia: Was it active volcano or no? It’s could be dangerous.

Mathilde Hoarau: It was not hot because of the volcano, most of the videos were made on "off volcanos". In Reunion, one volcano is still active, it means that we have to follow the changes, it means that an "irruption" can happen (When the lava comes out). I didn't do the videos on dangerous places, we really have to respect some rules when we go there. When you play on this place, you have the feeling to be in direct contact with the nature, no wind, no noise. It’s like you play on Mars or on the moon. At least, it's the idea I had when I played exchanges there.

Mathilde Hoarau

 

BTRussia: And what about catamaran? Seems like you always have a racket with you…

Mathilde Hoarau: I really wanted to try playing on the sea. It was a way to communicate about beach tennis, and to show the beautiful landscape. So, we took our rackets to make it possible. It was very funny. When people see this kind of videos, they can be curious about the beach tennis. Even if it's on the sand. They can try to find more information about that. I love this way to communicate about beach tennis because:

A) You speak about "beach tennis" even if it's not in the sand.
B) You allow people to discover a funny, a wonderful, an amazing place of the world
C) You go to this place and try to respect the environment

I love my sport on the sand! I love the competitions! I do all around the world. But these kinds of projects are part of the promotion of beach tennis. And concerning promotion of beach tennis, it's my goal too, not only play official tournaments. We can have many ideas, on lost beaches, on "island beaches" on beaches of different colors. There are many places to do that.

BTRussia: What is your dream place to play BT?

Mathilde Hoarau: I really want to play in a lost beach, I mean you have a small part of sand (enough space to put a court), but all round of this beach you have water. It can be amazing. And some beaches like that exist in the world! Let's do it!

 

The best women bt player of Russia Julia Chubarova has interesting experience too.

Julia Chubarova

BTRussia: Julia, tell us about the most unusual places where you played beach tennis?

Julia Chubarova: Igor Panin and me started to shoot and post videos with playing beach tennis in a different places during or trip to Japan in August 2015. Now we have quite a lot: on the roof of the hotel, on the street across the road, in the Central squares of cities and even at the airport. You can see them all by hashtag #beachtennistime on my instagram. Well, the funny thing is this latest video from the Reunion with Luda Nikoyan we played close to volcano on a lava field.

BTRussia: What is the craziest place of your dreams you want to play BT?

Julia Chubarova: Tennis quite often holds promotional tournaments matches in the most interesting places: streets of New York, a helipad in Dubai... It would be nice if beach tennis gained the same popularity, and we would have been invited to participate in such events. And as more real, my dream is to play in Aruba. Very cool to play with the big stands and crowd around.

Other top players shared with BTRussia their fantasies about the most unusual or beautiful places to play beach tennis.

Michele Cappelletti:

Michele Cappelletti

BTRussia: Tell us about the ideal place where would you like to play a tournament (could be not real place)?

Michele: Well yesterday I have been here in Martinique in An amazing beach called "le salines" would be a dream play there with the white sand and blue sea.

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Maraike Biglmaier:

Maraike Biglmaier

BTRussia:Tell your dream place to play beach tennis?

Maraike: I like white beaches with a big center court like Aruba! But sometimes it's also good to play in a city. I could imagine a great tournament in Manhattan (New York) or in my home town Berlin.

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Niccolo Strano:

Niccolo Strano

BTRussia: Where would you like to play beach tennis (can dream you are not necessarily a real place)?

Niccolo: I would like to play a beach tennis tournament during Super Slam tennis.

 

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But the winner of originality is unknown BT lover who dive with racket.

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