- Robin Gerber won his two doubles in the LNA Interclubs final. (© DR)
Swiss champion with Lausanne and double bronze medalist at the national championships, Robin Gerber has just lived the most accomplished season of his career. The 26 -year -old Chablaisian now feels more legitimate in his report to badminton. Encounter.
Already titled in 2023, the badminton Lausanne Association once again won the title of Swiss national league champion has last weekend. A coronation that bears the paw of a Chablaisian player, Robin Gerber in particular. At 26, the young man from Port-Valais won his two doubles played in the final which opposed the Vaud team to Zurich. This success was certainly less surprising than that of two years ago (which intervened after more than twenty years of waiting), but it came to reward the dynamics of a united group, which has hardly moved since, with a small exception.
« We are all of the same generation, all friends. It’s super pleasant to be part of this team “, Testifies Robin Gerber, whose little brother Nicolas is also part of the training, even if an injury to the meniscus has held him dismissed from the field in recent months. And in addition to this national title, the Bas-Valaisan has had a more than Abouie season in terms of personal results. The former BC Saint-Maurice player was also twice a bronze medalist in double and mixed in the last Swiss championships in February in Geneva.
Robin (left) and Nicolas Gerber are now double Swiss champions (© DR)
The relation to his sport has changed
These two charms are the only ones that were missing in his national career, and they served as a click. “” Since it happened, it is as if I had less to prove. I play much more freely, I feel in my place in Ligue A, which was not necessarily the case before. I was not really relaxed, and put myself a lot of pressure “Indicates Robin Gerber. The Chablaisian now feels much more legitimate in his team, on his level, and also in his relationship with foreign players. Because yes, in Lausanne, they were two internationals this season. The Ecossais Alexander Dunn and the Irishman Nhat Nguyen. It’s the latter – 40e Mondial – who was pairing with Robin Gerber in double in the Vaud jersey.
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Nhat Nugyen and Robin Gerber in the middle of a match (© DR)
« At first, to play with a stranger is intimidating “Explains the origin of Port-Valais. “” But now I dare tell them what I think, in match and outside. These discussions bring me enormously, and the progression is felt. “Team Buildings are organized to integrate these players who, in general, only compete in the” who count “meetings. This status, Robin Gerber himself got to know him recently. In addition to his matches with Lausanne, he was engaged with the Cobra Badminton Colmar, a French training in N3 (fourth division).
Champion in Switzerland, unhappy in France
Valaisan thus knew between its first experience abroad between September and April. “” I am supposed to be the leader in the field. I try to be the person I would have liked to have by my side when I started playing with foreigners. I inspire good examples that I have known to transmit what I can to the young people of Colmar He says. Unfortunately for them, the Alsatians lacked the final series. “” We made the record of points in the history of French badminton for a team that did not qualify for the playoffs… Not enough to start the motivation of Robin Gerber who, with this progression, intends to continue to make his game shine on both sides of the border during the next exercise.
Robin Gerber’s interview
Thierry Nicolet
