This is called being exact at the big night rendezvous. On May 21, the day when he happily found his audience after an entire season contested in silent and sad venues, pandemic obliges, the C’Chartres TT tamed 3-1 his bête noire Thorigné-Fouillard during a final day of all possibilities and won his duel from a distance against Roanne.
“It’s so good. We’re going to enjoy it.”
Emmanuel Rassouw (The CCTT coach)
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The club won, there, the title of champion of ProB. Above all, the only promoted Eure-et-Loir in this year when all the amateurs had been sent home in the fall, he won his return ticket for the ProA, the ping elite in France. A rebirth, two years after an indigestible relegation. The CCTT clan could then feast well beyond the 10 p.m. curfew then in effect …
Affected by the Covid
” It’s too good. We are going to savor, ”said Emmanuel Rassouw, all smiles and moved, remembering the difficult times. Struck by the Covid-19 in October, the coach from Chartres had been hospitalized for two months and forced to leave his place for three months to Kévin Hégo, perfect in the interim, before being able to return to the bench at the end of January. The season had been particularly complicated to live, it ended on a happy end.
The C’Chartres TT overthrown by La Romagne
His team, a young and good cosmopolitan quartet (the Hungarian Bence Majoros, the Brazilian Vitor Ishiy, the Belgian Florent Lambiet and the French Irvin Bertrand) had not only withstood the pressure in the final act. She had been able to thwart with temperament all the traps of a crazy final straight: four matches all won in the space of nine days. She had been the strongest throughout a season of messy postponements.
“Those two years in ProB were two years in purgatory. I couldn’t imagine not coming back up because it would have given us quite a blow. It was essential for the club.”
Benoît Gasnier (President of the CCTT)
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In this very particular context, with a calendar to be undone, to be redone according to the positive or negative tests, the Chartrains had to fight to the end. Blame it on a competition that did not want to let go and a point-counting system that does not value success (3 points for victory, 2 points for 3-2 defeat …). But the figures, two small setbacks in eighteen days and only sixteen games lost in singles or doubles (ten less than Roanne the dolphin), testify to their domination.
After an exercise flown over until its final stop in March, the CCTT therefore continued to play the big guns. And, this time, after being deprived of it by a white season decision seen as an injustice, he was allowed to join the upper echelon. “Those two years in ProB were two years in purgatory. I wasn’t considering not going back up because it would have given us quite a blow. It was essential for the club ”, slipped Benoît Gasnier, the president of Chartres.
C’Chartres TT beats Saint-Denis and confirms before the holidays
Like a repaired anomaly, the quadruple champion of France (in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2017) and finalist of the Champions League in 2013 therefore resumed his place in ProA in October. It is well among the other leaders of the discipline in France, Hennebont, Angers, La Romagne or Pontoise-Cergy.
With an almost unchanged workforce, only Bertrand left while Abdel-Kader Salifou and Korean joker Kim Minhyeok arrived, the CCTT posted a balanced record at the truce, four wins for as many defeats. With only a point behind the leading duo, he may even dream of the title even if it is not the goal. Who knows, the Chartrains may become our nice surprise of 2022 …
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Franck Thébault
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