Le Roseau

Founded in 2000 by Tarek Francis and Eric Flament, La Réserve du Roseau transformed a struggling club into a structure of 1,100 members and 50 staff, recruited well beyond Brussels, reaching as far as Walloon Brabant, Flemish Brabant and Wallonia. Its name is inspired by Eugen Herrigel: "Man is a thinking reed whose greatest works are accomplished when he neither calculates nor thinks."

The Smash Academy, the club's school, holds a 14/15 rating from Tennis Wallonie-Bruxelles, a distinction shared by only 6 clubs out of 350 in the French-speaking region, and welcomes children from 3.5 to 24 years old. The club is also the first affiliate of the Wallonie-Bruxelles federation for pickleball. It organises camps during every Belgian French-speaking and Dutch-speaking school holiday, covering 18 disciplines, and is part of the S.C.O.R.E. programme through the re-pressurisation of used balls and the provision of access to sport for children in need.