Joué-lès-Tours too strong for a reduced Poitiers TTACC 86

Poitiers TTACC 86 : 0
Joué-lès-Tours: 3

Jianan Yuan was present this Tuesday evening in building C7 of the Marie-Amélie Le Fur university complex in Poitiers. But due to inflammation in her shoulder, the leader of Poitiers TTACC did not take off her tracksuit or her green sneakers, and had to helplessly watch her team’s defeat against Joué-lès-Tours.

The presence of the 19^e world player would have been very useful to the Poitou team to avoid not scoring any points for the first time this season and to try to compete with the new leader of Pro A ladies, and in particular with Hana Goda who only made one mouthful of Andrea Todorovic in the second match of the evening (0-3).

Laure Le Mallet: “our opponents were better”

But it is not about this meeting that the TTACC should harbor regrets, nor about the next one won by Audrey Zarif against the valiant Sara Ramirez (1-3), but rather about the very first between Jiaduo Wu and He Li. closest duel of the evening.

Because if the Mona Lisa had won from the start (3-11), the Poitevine had reacted well by equalizing (11-9), after having scored seven consecutive points (0-4 then 7-4), then by obtaining two set points (10-8) in the next set and the opportunity to change the match. But He Li was able to erase them to regain the advantage (10-12), without managing, however, to finish the job in stride (11-9). A simple setback in the end since the fifth and final set was one-sided (3-11) in favor of the former leader of Joué-lès-Tours.

“There are regrets, especially when Jiaduo led 10-8explained Poitevin captain Laure Le Mallet. This hurts us. It could perhaps have changed the collective dynamic a little even if it was very strong in the face. We knew it was going to be hard. The championship is very close and when there is an absence like that of Jianan (Yuan)it becomes even more complicated even if the girls did not have bad matches. But our opponents were better. There is nothing to say. » Just observing the big smile of Carole Grundisch, satisfied to return to success after two consecutive losses in Quimper (0-3) and Saint-Denis (2-3).

Carole Grundisch: “a magnificent operation”

“It feels goodrejoiced the Jocondian captain. If we had been told at the start of the season that we would win 3-0 in Poitiers, I wouldn’t necessarily have believed it. We can still see that as soon as a player is missing, it can really reshuffle the cards. In any case, it is a magnificent operation. »

Because with this victory, and even if the ranking is still illegible because of the differences in matches played between the teams, Joué-lès-Tours has moved even closer to the top 6, unlike Poitiers TTACC 86 which will have to fight until ‘at the end to hope to play the final stages.

The sheet

0-1. J. Wu (n°20) – H. Li (n°17): 2-3 (3-11, 11-9, 10-12, 11-9, 3-11).
0-2. A. Todorovic (n°35) – H. Goda (n°5) : 0-3 (8-11, 4-11, 8-11).
0-3. S. Ramirez (n°53) – A. Zarif (n°33): 1-3 (7-11, 11-8, 7-11, 10-12).