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14h05. -66kg : Abuladze s’offre le leader Vieru
If he was only competing in his third international competition in -66kg since his world title obtained in 2021 in the lower category, the Russian Yago Abuladze seems well on his way to being the X factor of the day, after having dominated without There is something wrong with the Moldavian world n°1 Denis VIieru, with a very hip uchi-mata which offered him a decisive waza-ari.
1:50 p.m. -52kg: Puljiz aura eu with chance
From the top of her nine European medals, including bronze in seniors last year, the young Croatian, wound up like a pendulum, was very close to scoring against the Olympic champion Uta Abe on her sasae, which even required a little video verification. Not enough to shake the Japanese favorite, who quickly relied on her uchi-mata to score twice and chase away any beginning of tension.
1:45 p.m. -52kg: Buchard makes his debut
If the American Angelica Delgado took the lead in the first sequences of the fight, Amandine Buchard quietly picked up speed, while seeing two penalties from the opposing camp. A blow to the face finished putting her in the bath, and it was on her homemade kata-guruma that she unlocked the score for a waza-ari that she kept serenely until the gong. Not too much wasted energy for his first appearance in the ABHA Arena, good news considering what awaits him from the quarter-finals.
1:15 p.m. -52kg: Krasniqi took his time
While the top seeds for the moment provide all the essentials without shaking in the men’s category, with in particular a Hifumi Abe applied to her sode-tsuri-komi-goshi, the Olympic champion in the -48kg Distria Krasniqi, promoted to the top seed °1 of -52kg in the absence of the British Chelsie Giles, had to go through the golden score to get the better of the German volunteer Mascha Ballhaus. At two penalties everywhere, she accelerated on her o-soto-gari by authoritatively dictating the fall on both shoulders of her opponent.
12:55 p.m. -66kg: Annoying for Bouba
Against the Azerbaijani Orkhan Safarov whom he had dominated in the first round of the Masters last December, the 14e world will have lacked a touch of madness to invite itself to the third round. His sode will have made his opponent shine in the first minute of the golden score, the terrible fight of kumikata rocked when, lateralized but the left arm well confiscated, Bouba tried the hard blow on a seoi on his knees that Safarov read perfectly for better counter it. End of course for the AJA Paris XX fighter.
12:30 p.m. -66kg: Serious Khyar
Solid start for the 2016 European champion, selected for his fifth senior worlds this year, against Lenin Preciado, who rarely managed to prevent him from installing his right arm. And if that didn’t pass on a clinch like Khyar likes them, the key was on his kata-guruma, valued waza-ari in the last minute before the seconds ticked away on clever ground work around juji-gatame. To rally the quarters against the winner of the duel Denis Vieru / Yago Abuladze, it will now be necessary to tame the hyperactive Brazilian Willian Lima.
10:55 a.m. -66kg: Bouba continues on his way
The penalty received after five seconds by his Egyptian opponent will have finally weighed heavily in a fight where Ahmed Abdelrahman will have tried too hard to lock the grip of the Frenchman, who tried many techniques such as ko-uchi-gari, sasae- tsuri-komi-ashi or even ippon-seoi-nage without the precision necessary to score. Cleverly, Bouba in turn padlocked the game during the golden score, being active enough to obtain the fatal double penalty for his opponent due to the initial lag. Make way for the Azerbaijani Orkhan Safarov, double world medalist (2013 and 2017) in the lower category and seeded n°7 of the day. For Walide Khyar, the adventure will finally begin against the Ecuadorian Preciado, victorious over the South Korean An Jaehong on injury to the latter after two minutes of sudden death. See you in about fifteen fights for the two tricolors.
10:30 a.m. -66kg: Bouba in the appeal room
While the draw immediately offers us an interesting duel, won by the Russian Abrek Naguchev, 2019 cadet and 2021 junior world champion, against the Uzbek Sardor Nurillaev, finalist of the last Grand Slam in Tashkent, the AJA lightweight Paris XX will return to the track in three fights on the tatami n°2 of the ABHA Arena.
9:30 a.m. Upgrade to second today
The day after Shirine Boukli’s very fine silver medal in -48kg, the French team advances three new pawns on the world chessboard: Amandine Buchard (PSG Judo) in -52kg and the duo Walide Khyar (FLAM 91) / Daikii Bouba (AJA Paris XX) in -66kg.
What do the paintings of our French people suggest today?
In -66kg, it’s probably the Korean An Jaehong, 22 years old and 44e world – if he passes the Ecuadorian Preciado in the preliminaries – who will be the first round opponent of the Frenchman Walide Khyar. A “playable” start for the national leader in the ranking, member of the world top 10, against a fighter who has never won against a Frenchman, even if he finished third in Paris last February. It will then be necessary, if all goes well, to resist the kicks of the leaping Brazilian Willian Lima… the last opponent of the Frenchman, easily beaten on penalties at the Tashkent Grand Slam for the bronze. More annoying: the Tajik Nurali Emomali, 21, winner in Tashkent with an ippon by ko-uchi-gari on Khyar. The danger is there. In the event of victory, the final of this quarter of the table would still offer very dangerous opponents such as the Moldovan Denis Vieru, world number one and regular winner of the French for three years, the Russian Abuladze, whose style does not please him, or the ‘Uzbek Tilolov, recent winner of the Almada Grand Prix, but on whom he nevertheless remains on a victory, with a nice little ko-uchi-gari on the way to the bronze medal of the Masters. The opposite quarter would then probably offer him the terrible Hifumi Abe. This morning, the medal is still far away.
Second French chance in this category, Daïkii Bouba had also distinguished himself at the Masters by reaching the final, which earned him this fine first selection at this level. He will have the ambiguous advantage (because it is difficult to manage) of being in a “good quarter”, with leaders he has already beaten, such as the Mongol Yondonperenlei, world number two, or the Uzbek Nurillaev. But we will have to start at the beginning with the preliminary round against the Egyptian Ahmed Abdelrahman, 80e world and without much reference if not the recent title of African champion. The first round of the table would then offer him, as in Jerusalem, the Azerbaijani Orkhan Safarov, whom he had dismissed with a nice sasae. A great opportunity that we will have to manage to go face THE cador of this half-table: the Japanese Maruyama. Everything would then be possible to hope for a medal.
First Abe… then Krasniqi?
Due to the absence of the English Chelsie Giles, everything shifted… and it became very complicated for our representative in -52kg. Amandine Buchard could indeed face the best fighter in the world, the Japanese Abe in her third fight, in the event that she would come to the end of an easy preliminary round and a first round against the Azerbaijani Gultaj Mammadaliyeva… which does not is not done yet because this fighter has just risen sharply with two medals in a row in the Grand Slam. If our best national fighter in the category managed to take out the Japanese, which would only be the second time in nine official meetings and the first time in a major championship, she would find herself in the half table final against the Olympic champion of the -48kg mounted since successful in the category, Kosovare Krasniqi, who had hurt her very badly in Paris with two waza-ari on o-uchi-gari and o-soto-gari… The absence of the great Englishwoman Chelsie Giles makes her an opponent less, but a hellish journey. The finalist of the other half-table should be the Israeli Primo, the Uzbek Keldiyorova or the Italian Giuffrida… A fight paradoxically much more affordable.
9:00 a.m. What to remember from the first day of competition
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2023-05-08 10:52:05
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