National player Darina Naneva started as a regular in her official debut in the French elite Saforelle Volstar. The Bulgarian and Le Cannet lost as guests to Terville-Florange with 2:3 (25:22, 14:25, 15:25, 25:20, 15:17) in the first round of the championship. Naneva, who plays with No. 30, was in Marco Fenoglio's starting six in the first three sets. The middle blocker finished the match with 3 points - 2 from attack and 1 ace. In attack, she scored 2 out of 6 balls for 33%, without error and without being blocked. On serve, she made 9 serves, and in addition to the ace, she made 4 errors. Naneva has no block points.
Le Cannet started better and took the first set with 25:22, but the hosts responded with decisive 25:14 and 25:15. Fenoglio's team managed to equalize after 25:20 in the fourth set and the match went into a tie-break. In it, Le Cannet led 5:0, and later had a 12:10 advantage. However, Terville-Florange turned the tide and reached victory with 17:15.
The big difference between the two teams came in blocking. Terville-Florange finished with 15 points from this element against 6 for Le Cannet. In attack, the indicators were almost even - 55:54 points for the hosts, and in aces, the advantage was again for the winners - 7:4.
The most effective player for Le Cannet was the Chinese Sun Jie with 19 points, followed by Jeyda Kuyian with 18 and Eylül Durgun with 10. For Terville-Florange, Lisa Arbos scored 18 points, and Tatiana Kulikova added 15.

photo: Nikolay Varadinov