It's over for the French women's team in these world table tennis championships organized in Doha in Qatar. The last tricolor representative, Prithika Pavade, in lack of confidence with the competition, lost, logically, in the round of 16, against the Chinese Wang Yidi (4-0). But positive is to be remembered for this team.
“If I had been told that I would spend three laps and that I would necessarily play my eighth finals, I would have signed anyway in view of the period I had,” analyzes Prithika Pavade after her defeat in the round of 16. Since the Paris Games last summer, the 20 -year -old Frenchwoman crossed a difficult period, lacking results and confidence at half mast. “I took less pleasure in training, then sometimes I found myself also in situations where I alone immersed myself underwater. It has been very complicated moments, but suddenly, in necessarily hot, since I am a competitor, I want to go as far as possible, but I am still super happy with what I managed to produce on this competition.”
“We have a bright future”
She chained three solid victories in these Worlds, before losing logically in front of the world number four, Yang Yidi. “Inevitably I am disappointed to have lost, there were good things anyway in the match. I found that on certain points I still progressed quite a bit and there are a few small moments when I felt that she was a little more tense,” analyzes the French. On the coaching chair, Ludovic Remy, a coach of the Bleues, recognizes that Pavade has shown a lot of positive in the game all week. “We went through a difficult period after the games with her. We supported her, we worked together, it was a time to manage, we knew it was going to come back. We corrected things and I find that we left in a good dynamic.”
With a smile, from a global point of view, Ludovic Remy is satisfied with his group. “I am happy, we have put things back in place and will still put them back, with a higher level of requirement. I am satisfied with all the players. Good Jia Nan Yuan played a Frenchwoman (Charlotte Lutz), these are things that I hate and I have no comments to do. But the level of Charlotte increases. And behind we have young people, like Léana Hochart, who will progress. to put the ingredients. “. From Doha, the French female team leaves, in simple, with an eighth final, a sixteenth with Charlotte, a first and second round with Léana Hochart, only 16 years old and Jia Nan Yuan, dean of this group.
