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Sport<br />
THE<br />
FORTUNATE<br />
ONE<br />
PATRICK OGIER<br />
©GUERNSEY PRESS<br />
<strong>En</strong> <strong>Voyage</strong> spoke to<br />
Guernsey tennis star Patrick<br />
Ogier to find out where his<br />
passion for playing began.<br />
Patrick Ogier hadn’t even started<br />
primary school when the tennis<br />
bug hit. The Guernseyman, who’s<br />
since represented his island at the<br />
Commonwealth Games and Island<br />
Games, had discovered a couple<br />
of video tapes of old Wimbledon<br />
matches and was at risk of<br />
wearing them out by watching<br />
them ‘religiously’ on repeat.<br />
The 31 year old is still a star<br />
of Guernsey’s sporting scene,<br />
and though currently working<br />
through a knee and elbow injury,<br />
is a regular on the European<br />
tournament scene, and hopes to<br />
be back flying the Sarnia flag at<br />
the Island Games in Gibraltar this<br />
summer, and certainly when the<br />
event returns to Guernsey in 2021.<br />
'The Island Games are some<br />
of my best tennis experiences<br />
and memories of my life,' Patrick<br />
says I. 'The first one i did was<br />
in Gibraltar in 2005 when they<br />
did some of the sports there<br />
and the rest in Shetland, so I got<br />
the better end of the deal.<br />
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