After the Christmas break, the first team of the Rinconada Badminton Club resumes the competition by visiting lands in Granada to face this Sunday, January 23 at eleven in the morning Granada Badminton Club. The Sevillian team plays against one of its executioners in the first round and arrives hungry for badminton, since it has not competed since the Dec. 18, so this meeting seems very important to recover sensations and continue with the good level of play with which the corner players finished the year 2021 in Alicante.
Things are not going as well for the province of Seville as they would like, so at the start of the year they will want to forget the latest defeats and return to the path of victory to put land in between with the hot zone of the classification. The Granadans are a rocky team that moves well in tight results, having two decisive Czech players in their ranks, Alzbeta Basova and Tereza Svabikova, who are capable of deciding a match, as could be seen in the first leg, where they were key to the victory of the Granada team in San José de La Rinconada.
The corner players, after pass all the PCR tests last Thursday, arrive at the match hungry for badminton and aware of the importance of the points at stake to establish themselves in the upper part of the classification and to be able to dream of a calmer and smoother second round.
Training is not being easy, mainly due to the Covid 19 protocols and the pace of preparation to get to this difficult commitment as well as possible. Thus, they continue to assimilate the concepts and mentalization to emerge victorious from the games to 11, Ensuring security at decisive moments and fine-tuning the effectiveness of putting the shuttlecock into play. Antonio Molina’s men return with a desire for revenge against a team that mixes youth with the experience of its foreign incorporations.
In Granada it is expected that the brand new corner signing will be there, the young promise of the world badminton and under-19 champion of England Leona Lee, a hiring that has been made official this Thursday to give more reinforcement to the female part of the Fernando Martín team.
Regarding the transfer, Anthony Molina highlights that “we had been talking for a long time that we had to make an effort yes or yes in this winter market to make that leap in quality that we need seeing how tight everything is in this group. Leona is a girl with a lot of projection in the world of badminton. She is the Under-12, Under-14, Under-15, Under-16, and Under-19 champion in England and is keen to show her potential in her first foreign adventure. It is a privilege that you have decided to be with us until the end of the season because she is going to prove to be one of the best in the world at her age”.
Although the expedition is still unknown, Molina wants to have the largest number of athletes available and until the morning of Sunday the 23rd we will not know the call with the main objective of getting the three points, “because at the moment Badminton Granada occupies second place and we are equal on points with them in third place, it will be a nice match of continue”, as commented Martha Molina.
