Hard defeat of the First Team in Alicante
By Club Bádminton Ravachol Pontevedra
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Dec 23, 2020
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Last Saturday, the sixth day of the Division of Honor was played at the Alicante Technification Center, where the First Team faced its most direct rival in the fight for permanence. Ravachol Pontevedra counted, for the first time since the league began, with the entire team, with the handicap of Ania Setién’s injury, which prevented him from playing the individual, conditioning the alignment. The meeting began with the mixed doubles, where Manuel Brea and Ania Setién faced Daniel Sánchez and Helena Sánchez in an even match, marked by nerves and inaccuracies, finally falling for the Alicante side by a double 19-21. In gender doubles, mixed luck for Ravachol Pontevedra, as Alejandro Nogueira and Martín Barbado could do little against Jose Luis Martín and Alberto Perals (8-21 9-21), while Georgina Bland and Ania Setién scored the first point visitor (21-17 21-15). The singles round began, with the victory of Georgina Bland against Nikol Carulla (17-21 21-13 21-14), and the defeat of Luke Pearce against Miguel Esteve in a long three-set match (13-21 21-13 12 -twenty-one). With the 3-2 for the locals, the decisive singles round began, which meant the victory of Manuel Brea against Alberto Perals (21-14 18-21 21-10) and the defeat of Ana Carbón against Ana Ramírez, putting the tight 4-3 for Alicante. At the end of the day, Ravachol Pontevedra occupies the eighth position of the table without having released the victories list, 6 points behind CB Alicante, CB San Fernando Valencia and CB Benalmádena. At the end of the match, the team captain, Alejandro Nogueira, was in charge of commenting on the team’s feelings: “This defeat is the toughest so far in the league, for being a direct rival and because we were finally able to count on the starting team, but even so things did not work out. In any case, there is a lot of league left and we hope to lift this situation, we are not going to give up. ” Coach Jesús Pereiro added that “We are very touched this day, but we have 8 finals left until the end of the league, no one thinks that we are going to give up. Only we know what it took to get here, we are among the 8 best teams from Spain and that means that every match is difficult. So far for one thing or another the results have not been consistent, but I trust my players and together we will overcome this pothole. “
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