RBC Aiming for Badminton Title, Faces Tough Competition from W&L

To do this, RBC will have to get rid of players from W&L, the reigning vice-champion club. “It’s a match that will be very competitive. For me, it will be 50/50, we have experience and face each other as well. It’s not our first competition, we still finished in third place last year”explains Françoise Kaiser, the president of the Verviers club.

The team which will try to go to the end is initially made up of players trained only in Verviers with Jonathan Gillis, Joachim Cansse, Marine Lemaire, Estelle Pondant, Marie Demy, Guillaume Bonnet, Alexandre Lallemand and Karla Henry. “It’s a huge source of pride as president to see them perform at the highest level. It’s a collective that has moved up to Nationale 1 after 10 years, starting from the lowest level. This year, we can in addition to having two reinforcements in our ranks.”

Indeed, the Belgian women’s singles champion, Clara Lassaux, and Louis Lefèvre, a French player, will bring their experience and will lift their teammates to the top.

“Complicated to organize such an event here”

This year, we are lucky to be able to attend the semi-finals in Ensival. “It’s complicated to organize such an event here. We have a lot of infrastructure problems given that we only have small rooms. And to be able to obtain the Albert Moray sports hall you have to do it almost a year in advance. Luckily for us, we made it.” Two years ago, the final was to be organized in Verviers. Unfortunately, the floods passed by and it had to be played elsewhere.

This February 25, there could be a lot of people on the banks of Vesdre to attend the demonstration. “We hope to fill the room. We have had very good results for several years, we hope that this can motivate people to come and support us and allow regional badminton to grow. In addition, the other teams also have players of very high level which could bring back many spectators”specifies Françoise Kaiser.

Meet on Sunday February 25 at the Albert Moray sports center, rue des chapeliers 2 – Ensival.

2024-02-07 16:05:49
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