The Strasbourg native, the only Alsatian scheduled for this 2nd day, and her partner Emilie Vercelot (Saint-Maur), ”tanned” at ”France” 2024 and 76th in the world, assumed their status as favorites by dominating in the round of 32 the Azerbaijanis Keisha Fatimah Azzahra and Era Maftuha, 141st, not without having to chase the score and save two sets in the second set (21-6, 22-20).
“Even though I had already done the team Europe, I was a little apprehensive about this individual competition,” confides the Bas-Rhinoise, “I was a little stressed, but we knew that this first match could turn out in our favor. It was important not to take it lightly and to implement everything we had worked on from the beginning. We managed to get the job done, despite small mistakes at the end of the second set where we changed a few details to finally get ahead. We are quite satisfied to have completed this first round. »
This Thursday in the eighth, the two French women will face Bengisu Ercetin and Nazlican Inci (Turkey), seeded n°8 and 71st, who dismissed the English Abbygael Harris and Annie Lado, 81st (21-14, 21-17) . They are led 2-0 by the Turks who beat them twice in 2023: in the final of the Future Series of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in Pessac on July 9 (16-21, 9-21), then in the quarterfinals of the Dutch Open ( International Challenge) on October 14 (4-21, 11-21). The Ercetin/Inci pair have won five international tournaments since the start of 2023, the last in January 2024 in Estonia.
Gicquel and Lambert are set
This second day also allowed Mulhouseans Thom Gicquel and Margot Lambert, seeded n°2 respectively in mixed and women’s doubles, to learn the identity of their opponents in the round of 16 after having been exempted from the round of 16.
Reigning European vice-champions, Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue, 13th, will meet this Wednesday at 7:45 p.m. Mihaljo Tomic and Andjela Vitman (Serbia), 80th, defeaters in the first round of the Spaniards Jacobo Fernandez and Paula Lopez, 106th (21-16 , 21-8). They easily disposed of the Serbs on June 30 in Tarnow (Poland) in the quarterfinals of the European Games (21-14, 21-14).
Margot Lambert and Anne Tran (Racing Club de France), 19th, will for their part be opposed to a tandem that they have never faced, the English Chloe Birch and Estelle Van Leeuwen, 122, victorious this Tuesday over the Ukrainians Mariia Stoliarenko and Yelizaveta Zharka, 128th (21-15, 21-16).
2024-04-09 15:31:27
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