It’s a small revolution in ProA. The title of French champion, which Chartres won four times between 2012 and 2017, will be awarded this year after the play-offs. Only the first four of the regular season will be invited, which will be a first goal for all ambitious players. Should we rank Chartres among them? “We do not forbid anything, the primary objective is to do better than last year”, simply replies Emmanuel Rassouw, the coach.
The C’Chartres TT is preparing for the future
Seventh last spring for its return to the elite, with a perfectly balanced record (9 wins / 9 losses), the CCTT partially regenerated its workforce this summer. The Belgian Florent Lambiet has been replaced by the young Argentine Horacio Cifuentes (24 years old, no.87 in the world), already known in France since he played in ProB in Amiens, while the Korean Kim Minhyeok, who will not be seen only once, gives way in pink to the Japanese Yuta Tanaka (n ° 119). The latter will play a more important role and should play about a third of the season, alternating with Brazilian Vitor Ishiy.
A stronger ProA
Is this new-looking team better equipped than its predecessor? Emmanuel Rassouw wants to believe it, but he has not escaped that the competition has grown even more intense during the summer. “Hennebont, Pontoise and Jura-Morez recruited well, notes the Chartrain manager. So I think we will be a little stronger, because we have bet on young people, who are growing, but the general level is likely to be higher as well. But we saw it last year, sometimes there are surprises. “
A young Japanese arrives at C’Chartres TT
Hennebont, who will be a favorite, has recruited two players in the top 20 in the world (Kristian Karlsson and Chuang Chi-Yuan), Pontoise has hired Portuguese expert Marcos Freitas (# 32) to accompany Emmanuel Lebesson (# 45) , while Jura-Morez also hit hard by enlisting a Korean (Lim Jong-Hoom, n ° 18) and an Indian (Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, n ° 37). Enough to seriously compete with reigning double champion Angers and give Chartrains a hard time!
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