They are only one step away from the first international gold medal of their professional careers. Delphine Delrue and Thom Gicquel will play the mixed doubles final of the European Games on Sunday in Krakow, and it will be an opportunity for the French pair to open their prize list in blue, while the collection of individual titles is already well filled .
Vice-champions of Europe in 2022, bronze medalists at the European Games in 2019, Delrue and Gicquel (8th in the world) will have to win against the Dutch duo Tabeling-Piek, winner of the Danes Christiansen-Boje.
To get a place in the final, the Blues had to suffer against the English Ellis-Smith, who pushed them to the third set (21-18, 14-21, 21-18). Led 14-18 in the first set, they managed to score 7 points in a row to pocket the bet. The sign that they would never give up. “It was a roller coaster, very stressful, blew Thom Gicquel. We were behind almost the whole match so it was mainly mental. »
“We shouldn’t give up, just keep fighting because the points were very hard to score, continued Delphine Delrue. We are really very happy and we hope to bring gold tomorrow (Sunday). Money has become all too familiar to them.
2023-07-01 12:00:26
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