9th World Youth Team Championship Page 5 Bulletin 9 - Thursday 28 August  2003


Société Générale’s French team

Thomas Bessis, 19 years old, studying math.
Olivier Bessis, 21 years old, studying math.
The Bessis family realised last year, a great thing : every member of the family was in a French team : dad in the Open team, mum in the Women, and both boys in the Société Générale Youth French Team. They play a lot of sport, especially Tennis and Football (soccer).

Julien Gaviard, 22 years old, studying Chemistry.
He is the son of Danièle Allouche-Gaviard, three times European champion.
There isn’t only bridge in his life : Table Tennis, Football and Bowling are his others activities. This Parisian guy is supporting the Olympic of Marseille

Jérôme Grenthe, 22 years old, studying trade.
Guillaume Grenthe, 23 years old, has just finished at trading school.
They live in the north of the France, in Lille. They are well-suited to each other, it is in the family : their father Patrick has been in the 100 best French players for 30 years now and their mother Dominique plays at the top of the French bridge world.

Godefroy de Tessières, 22 years old, has just finished an engineering school.
In the de Tessières family, everybody plays bridge, both of the parents and the four children. Godefroy started at the age of eight. At ten, he was seen, with his family, in the World Bridge Championships in Geneva. He grew up in Fort de France (Martinique) where lives the family. He enjoys nautical sports.

NPC : Jean-Christophe Quantin, 37, European champion.
Coach : François Colin.



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