The coach and captain of the blues, Pablo Ayma, looked back on this first day marked by the great victory of Jessica Ginier and Lucile Pothier and obviously on the defeat of the seeded 3 of the event, Jérémy Scatena and Thomas Leygue.

“Yesterday we started with the ladies and gents matches. Jess and Lucile won a difficult victory against Portugal and managed to win a match against the seeded 7. Congratulations to them, the table opens and allows them to have ambition in this competition.

As for Benjamin Tison and Adrien Maigret, it is essential to remain serious until the end, but they have a favorable table to exploit. Their form is good and they are playing well.

For Scat and Thomas, the situation is obviously much more complicated. From the start, we knew their part of the draw was tough, with an opener against an excellent pair from Sweden. Before thinking about the next matches, our focus had to be entirely on this meeting against Anton Andersson and Albin Alosson.

This Swedish association is formidable and demonstrates that Sweden is undeniably a nation to be taken into account during the next international competitions, even if it was absent during the last world championships.

The playing conditions undoubtedly favored the Swedes, with outside weather marked by intense heat and intermittent showers. The defense was difficult, especially against the imposing stature of the Swedes, which complicated our task.

The first set ended with a tie-break in favor of the Swedes. In the second set, we had several chances to take the advantage and we finally managed to achieve the break at 5/4 by playing more solidly. However, in the third set, we had four misses on serve, which resulted in a break against us. Despite our best efforts, we failed to recover that break throughout the rest of the third set.

The competition continues today with the mixed test.

Franck Binisti

Franck Binisti discovers the padel at the Club des Pyramides in 2009 in the Paris region. Since padel is part of his life. You often see him touring France going to cover the major events of padel French.

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