The player from Badminton club Fos will return from the Euro U19 in Ibiza with two medals, one in the team competition, the other in the individual competition.
She lived up to her status. The badista from Fos will return from Ibiza with two medals around her neck!
She first won silver with the French team. In the final of the U19 European Team Championships, the Bleuets only lost very narrowly last Saturday against the die-hard Danes (2-3). Elsa Jacob won the first point of the mixed match with Tom Lalot Trescarte (21/9, 21/12). It was also she who played the last match for the title, in women’s doubles with Camille Pognante. Unfortunately, this decisive meeting turned to the advantage of the Danes Nielsen / Tommerup 21/18, 19/21, 14/21.
A revenge to be taken in the final
During the individual competition, Elsa Jacob presented herself as the number 1 seed in mixed doubles and women’s doubles. If in mixed doubles, she lost in the quarter-finals with Tom Lalot Trescarte against the Danes Reiler / Petersen. In women’s doubles, she has just qualified for the final.
Today in the 1/2 final with Camille Pognante, she eliminated the Spanish pair Izquierdo / Jimenez 21/16, 18/21, 21/13. The two French women will play the final tomorrow against the Danes Petersen / Tommerup.
There will be revenge in the air… To win gold, the Fosséenne will this time have to get the better of Anne-Sofie Nielsen who beat her in the team final and Maria Tommerup who eliminated her in mixed doubles!
