AM Asnières 92 / RSC Montreuil: 3-6

 

To round off the first day of the elimination phase, the Francilien duel between Asnières-sur-Seine and Montreuil lived up to its promise. Led by Olympic medallist Maxime-Gaël Ngayap Hambou (-90kg), who showed off his great inside reap against Lucas Duchaussoy before bringing him down a second time by overtaking an ill-judged attempt, the home team got off to the best possible start. The joy was short-lived, however, as the Seine-Saint-Denis outfit went on a four-game losing streak. victories! Samah Hawa Camara (+70kg) and her nine medals from the French first division championships trapped young Océane Baba Boura in two stages, on a seoi-nage knees and then penalties, then that Emre Sanal (+90kg), 2022 French champion, needed just nine seconds to uproot light-heavyweight Marc-François Ngayap and win the trophy for the most beautiful ippon at the end of the match. The Spaniard Mireia Lapuerta Comas (-52kg), who was crowned French women's team champion with PSG Judo last season, took her turn against Lycia Guebli a waza-ari entered just before time-out, as well as Kévin Azema (-66kg), two-time reigning French champion too powerful on his ura-nage for Evan Leclerc.

Two steps away from the remontada

At 1-4 after the break, the margin for error had become infinitesimal for Asnières, who first saw Meriem Medjouri (-57kg) - one of his mainstays in Pro Judo League with seven wins, three draws and two defeats from the first three editions - competing against Spain's Malin Wilson until the final. hikiwakebefore picking up the pace again. Two-time junior national medallist Nathan Cadignan (-73kg) imposed his rhythm on Lionel BebeyIn the same way, the recent European junior medallist was able to demonstrate her positive aggression. In the same spirit of positive aggression, the recent European junior medalist Doria Boursas (-63kg) defeated Aurore Cabannewho collected three penalties in just over two minutes. With 3-4 on the scoreboard before the last two games, anything was still possible in this duel, and even more so when l'Asniérois Tom Libert (-81kg), bronze medallist at the last World Military Championships, scorait yuko then waza-ari against Matteo Giordano. If the score remained there, everything was going to come down to the tenth and final fight of the day... except that Libert launched one attack too many, totally channeled on the upper body by the 2023 French junior champion, who managed to tackle him on both shoulders. Three points for Montreuil, validated by the Italian's final success Irene Pedrotti at Juliette's expense Diollot in the -70kg category.

 

Auxerre Judo / Stadium Bordeaux: 3-6

 

It was much the same scenario as the previous day's Auxerre/Bordeaux match, which kicked off the second day of competition. After a draw between Alya De Carvalho and Lola Berthet in the -57kg class, French junior finalist Désir Zoba Casi (-73kg) gave the Girondins their first point, imposing his reaping skills three times on Moroccan Mohamed Jafy. Émilie Dando (-63kg) then doubled the score with a waza-ari and the nail seemed to be irreparably hammered in when, in quick succession, the Bulgarian Georgi Gramatikov (-81kg) and Mathilde Chabal (-70kg) won by ippon against Ahmed El Meziati and Lena Siouane.

Girondins new leaders

Would the Icaunais be able to come back from 0-4 down in the first half? half-time?

Everything seemed possible after the Ukrainian's express victory Klymov Vsevolod (-90kg) - for the second time this season awarded the prize for the most beautiful ippon - and the o-soto-gari authoritarian Océane Diarrassouba on Calypso Debuirebut Belgian Édouard Capelle (+90kg) put an end to the rebellion auxerroise a o-uchi-gari who was right about Abdelkader Belarchi. African champion 2024 Soumiya Iraoui (-52kg) saved his honour by dominating Gabriela Dimitrova a tani-otoshi The Girondins had the last word with Kylian Noël, who won the match with a waza-ari against Mohammed Berrabah. The Stade Bordelais made another perfectly managed trip, following up on their 6-2 victory over JC Chilly-Mazarin Morangis a week ago, to take the lead in the standings ahead of their other matches.

 

Montpellier Judo Olympic / JC Pontault-Combault: 4-2

 

Defeated when receiving Juniville Marnaval Grand Est a fortnight earlier, Montpellier got back on track by overcoming JC Pontault-Combault, who had lost their opener in Nice at the end of September. The Hérault team had to be patient to claim victory, after an opening duel turned to their advantage thanks to Irakli Goginashvili (-73kg) who immobilized Guillaume Dierstein at tate-shiho-gatame. Eva Grassin (-63kg) showed her strength to avoid giving up a score to Fantine Rauzierlike his partners Camille Meyer (-70kg) and Léa Machut (+70kg), who were up against Laura Haberstock and Valentine Marchand, two former French senior champions. At the same time, the success of Mouhammad Gazaloev (-81kg) against local Hugo David was cancelled by the sublime harai-makikomi of Esteban Martins (-90kg), voted best projection of the evening, when the reigning French heavyweight champion Angel Gustan bowed alone on the tatami for lack of an opponent.

Don't lose to win

The unstoppable stranglehold of Dutchwoman Naomi Van Krevel on 2025 world medalist Laura Martinez Abelenda was about to reignite the debate, until Axel Mohedano (-66kg) was unable to hold off William CysticThe Montpellier team were even able to savour their first victory of the season right up to the end, thanks to a final, well-timed shoulder movement. yuko for its young fighter Emma Melis (-57kg) against Dutchwoman Julie Beurskens. JC Pontault-Combault, who now have two home matches remaining, against Arts Martiaux Saint-Gratien on November 18 and then at CA Boulogne-Billancourt on January 13, to climb back up the table. Montpellier head for Nantes on November 25, before a final trip to defending champions US Orléans on December 17.