After winning the men’s Europe Cup 2022-2023, Enebon of Yannis Sgouropoulos is giving everything to lift the champion’s cup in France. Yesterday, 10/05, she completed her matches in the regular season of the professional league (the so-called Pro A) and with the Greek ace in her composition, she scored a victory, which led her to 1st place.
They beat Angers by 1 point in the final and go to the league playoffs to chase a return to the titles after Kallinikos Kreanga’s very productive season. At that time he had won 4 championships and the last one was in 2009. Sgouropoulos did better in the 2nd round and as in the European success of the team, so also in the course of the 18 matches of the championship he had a significant contribution to the course of the team.
As reported by the website of the French federation (fftt.com), Enebon will face in the double semi-finals of the playoffs against Jura More, who took 4th place. The day after tomorrow, 14/05, the regular season also ends in France in the women’s Pro B, where two athletes from our national teams, Katerina Toliou and Elisabeth Terpou, are participating.
Pro A had 10 teams and normally consisted of two rounds with a one-for-all system. Only the last team is immediately relegated (it is Saint-Denis 1) and from then on play-offs and play-outs are foreseen. The top 4 teams in the standings compete for the title.
In the 18th and last game, Enebon, as the home team, overcame the obstacle of Torin Fouillard with 3-2. It reached 46 points and surpassed Angers (former team of Panagiotis Gionis by the way) to the top, which in the same matchday lost 3-2 away from Caen and took 2nd place with 45 points.
In the match against Turin, Sgouropoulos played one game and was beaten 3-1 in a set by the international left-handed Frenchman Enzo Angle. In general, during the regular season of Pro A, the four-time European champion of the youth categories showed, according to the data on the French website, 3 wins and 8 losses.
Enebon will meet in the play-off semi-finals against Dzura More, who took 4th place with 39 points. The 3rd ranked Rouen (40 points) will face Angers in the other semi-final and as reported by the French federation, the double matches will be played at the end of May and beginning of June. No date has been announced for the league final.
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Also in France, the championship of the 2nd national women’s category, the so-called Pro B, ends on Sunday, where playoffs will also follow. This year, two more key members of our national teams took part in the very strong event, Katerina Toliou with Ren and Elisabeth Terpou with Issy Le Moulineau.
The total matches will be 14 with two round matches and our female champions had made their last appearance in the 12th match. Rennes then won 3-2 away to Paris TT with Toliou (who are in the final stages of their World Cup preparations) making it 2 wins against their former club. For its part, Issy Le Moulineau had lost 3-1 as a guest against Le Mans Chartres and Terpoux had lost their only individual match very badly. In the standings, Rennes is 4th with 25 points and Issy Le Moulineau 7th with 18.
Finally, in the men’s Pro B, where Giannis Vlotinos played few games with the Saint-Pierrez jersey, the regular season ended in one round and 11 matches. Saint-Pierres was reduced with 15 points to the 11th and penultimate position and goes to the play-offs.
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