“After ten months of absence, it was really cool to resume the matches! “Always confined in his hotel room between two matches or training, it is a smiling and relaxed Thom Gicquel (22 years old) who agreed to answer our questions.
Stopped since March 2020 due to the covid-19 pandemic and then an ankle injury, the Bretillian fired from Red Star Mulhouse has, it is true, struck a big blow for his return to the field with his partner, the Val-d’Oisienne Delphine Delrue.
The world number 15 reached the semi-finals of the Yonex Open Thailand, Super 1000 with a million dollars, a first for tricolor badists.
The following week, for the second event of this level in Bangkok, they managed to take their revenge against their Indonesian winners (N.4 at the BWF), further proof that their place in the top of the world mixed is legitimate.
Qualified with his partner for the finals of the BWF World Tour, from Wednesday in Bangkok, the badist trained at CS Betton (35) tells us in detail about his long stay in Thailand, punctuated by the constraints linked to the coronavirus pandemic, and its ambitions for a season that he hopes to conclude at the Olympic Games in Tokyo this summer.
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