What can C’Chartres Table Tennis hope for on the eve of the 2023-2024 financial year, its third consecutive season in the French table tennis elite? Very smart is the one who can say this, as the ProA is an increasingly homogeneous championship.
“We’ve been saying it for a while, but in this championship everyone can beat everyone. We saw it last year. And the one who has bet on all the matches and who has never made a mistake, he is probably a millionaire at the moment!”, laughs Emmanuel Rassouw, not decided to leave his caution in the locker room. Supporting figures.
“On paper, we are below”
Last season, his men only managed to string together three victories in a row on one occasion (Saint-Denis, Caen and La Romagne). Three successes won at home. Surprising 6th in ProA last May when it was aiming for a “comfortable” maintenance, the club now chaired by Jean-Philippe Percheron would happily re-sign for the same result, in eight months. “On paper, we are a step below. The competition has strengthened a lot, with the champion, Hennebont, Jura-Morez and even Caen. Without forgetting the promoted: Nîmes-Montpellier which will count in its ranks the Lebrun brothers We will rely on other weapons. The stability of the workforce is one of them (the CCTT has retained the Brazilian Vitor Ishiy, the Hungarian Bence Majoros and the Argentinian Horacio Cifuentes).
But in ping as in other sports, amalgamation and cohesion will be essential,” warns Rassouw, who has no doubt in the ability of his summer recruit, the Ecuadorian Alberto Mino (80th player in the world) to blend in in the Chartres mold.
The C’Chartres TT squad is 75% complete
“Alberto is an experienced player who had a frustrating 2022-2023 season in the Bundesliga (only one victory). But he comes here to relaunch himself, with an exemplary state of mind,” warns Emmanuel Rassouw, who arrived this Tuesday, September 19 in the Mauges, after picking up its three South Americans at Orly.
The calendar
Day 1: in La Romagna, September 20 (return January 15). Day 2: Jura-Morez, September 24 (return February 1). Day 3: in Angers, November 14 (return February 15). Day 4: Rouen, November 12 (return March 1). Day 5: in Hennebont, October 24 (return March 15). Day 6: Pontoise-Cergy, November 26 (return April 1). Day 7: in Caen, November 28 (return April 15). Day 8: Thorigné-Fouillard, December 12 (return May 1). Day 9: in Nîmes-Montpellier, December 15 (return May 15).
Romagna: a good memory for the people of Chartrain.
It is in the Mauges that the 2023-2024 financial year will begin for Emmanuel Rassouw’s men, this Wednesday evening (7:30 p.m.). Facing a team which finished just ahead in the standings (5th in ProA) but which did well last season (two victories), the Chartrains, having just returned from the Pan-American championships played in Cuba for three of them ( Horacio Cifuentes, Alberto Mino and Vitor Ishiy), will have to start their season as best as possible against a Romagna team led by the veteran Chen Tianyuan and reinforced by the Chinese Yingbin Xu (n°43 at the ITTF) who are always dangerous. Knowing that Angevin coach Fabrice Coutolleau will have to choose between his young recruit and the Iranian Nima Alamian for quota reasons. It remains to be known the identity of the third man: the Frenchman Léo de Nordrest (French n°52) or the Senegalese Ibrahima Diaw (N°59).
David Berthélem
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