French U16 women’s team defeated by Serbia in their second group match
The last French national team competing in an international competition this summer, the French U16 women’s team started their EuroBasket 2025 with a victory against Romania on Friday, before losing to Serbia (64-78). Coach Julien Egloff’s players quickly found themselves in trouble, managed to come back, but couldn’t sustainably reverse the trend.
A poor start, a quickly stifled comeback
From the beginning, the French team suffered under Serbian pressure and fell behind by ten points after the first quarter (21-11). The gap even widened to +15 in the second quarter, before France woke up thanks to Camille Sevaux (17 points on 6/16 shooting and 11 rebounds in 21 minutes). The daughter of Arnaud Sevaux (long-time LNB employee) sparked the comeback and helped her team close the gap.
Even better, France briefly took the lead (42-41) following two free throws by Liya Tetka, with 14 minutes remaining. But this would be the only lead of the game for the French team.
Too much offensive inefficiency
Struggling to organize their game (only 7 assists, with 16 turnovers), the French team severely lacked outside shooting accuracy with a poor 2/22 from 3-point range. Too big a deficit to hope to compete in the long run. Serbia regained control and logically won by 14 points.
Response expected against Belgium
The French team will need to quickly regroup this Sunday against Belgium, who lost to Serbia and Romania in their first two matches. The game is scheduled for 2 PM in Mioveni and could already be decisive in the quest for a good position in the group.
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