 Serin while at UBB in 2015. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Baptiste Serin 20 June 1994 La Teste-de-Buch, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 87 kg (192 lb; 13 st 10 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Baptiste Serin (born 20 June 1994) is a French rugby union player. His position is Scrum-half and he currently plays for Toulon and the France national team. [1]
Born in La Teste-de-Buch in Gironde, Serin began his career with nearby club Bordeaux Bègles in the Top 14.[ citation needed ]
He made his international debut during France's 2016 tour of Argentina. He started the first match at scrum-half, paired with Jules Plisson at fly-half, and received praise from coaches, players, and the press despite being in the losing side (30-19). He started the second match as well, this time associated with François Trinh-Duc, and this time took on the kicking duties too. They won that game 0-27 in what was Guy Novès's first away win as France manager, with Serin shining again. He was then included in the 2016/17 30-man "elite" list, made of players selected by the French national team to be protected and not allowed to play more than 30 games that year. [2] He was then selected to play in the Autumn Internationals but started all three games on the bench, behind Maxime Machenaud. France ended the series with a 19–24 loss to world champions New Zealand, in which Serin came onto the pitch during the second half and gave a remarkable out-the-back pass for Louis Picamoles to score the only French try of the game. [3] Baptiste made his 6 Nations debut against England on 4 February 2017.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1 | 10 June 2017 | Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa |  South Africa | 16–12 | 37–14 | 2017 France tour of South Africa |
| 2 | 18 November 2017 | Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France | South Africa | 5–8 | 17–18 | 2017 November internationals |
| 3 | 23 June 2018 | Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin, New Zealand |  New Zealand | 0–5 | 49–14 | 2018 France tour of New Zealand |
| 4 | 2 October 2019 | Fukuoka Hakatanomori Stadium, Fukuoka, Japan |  United States | 17–9 | 33–9 | 2019 Rugby World Cup |
| 5 | 9 February 2020 | Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France |  Italy | 33–17 | 35–22 | 2020 Six Nations |
| 6 | 28 November 2020 | Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France | Italy | 22–5 | 36–5 | Autumn Nations Cup |
| 7 | 6 July 2024 | Estadio Malvinas Argentinas, Mendoza, Argentina |  Argentina | 3–8 | 13–28 | 2024 Argentina and Uruguay test series |
| 8 | 13 July 2024 | José Amalfitani Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina | Argentina | 0–5 | 33–25 |