Women's Final | Misaki Emura vs. Michela Battiston | 24/25 Tunis Sabre GP

Emora's attack fails and picks up the right-of-way, gets her second. Now Battiston steps in, stops. No from the left. Battiston is very quick to take advantage of opportunities. A lovely long attack there from Battiston. Back left, a slow start. She got out of the middle, launched an attack. It failed, but then so did Battiston's counter. Nice, nice build of that attack from Emora. Attack left. Battiston's mask clip had come unstuck. Those long direct attacks of Battiston are, of course, just part of her arsenal, but she uses it really well. Now Battiston goes looking for the blade, doesn't find it. Emora is through, and the one smart thing that Emora is doing, and she does many smart things, attack left is the call. Battiston asks for a video review to see if we're going to get a replay. The one thing that the call stands. What Emura does not want to do is get into any kind of deficit with Battiston because she'll pay the price. Emura goes looking for the blade. Lovely long attack there from Misaki Emura. Takes us to the one minute break, but as it stands, they're both pretty evenly matched. I'd say they're very evenly matched. Battiston hasn't lost any confidence and Misaki Amura has come out. Looking like she has regained hers. As we mentioned in the semi-final, Battiston is not only an Italian fencer, but she's got one of the best saber coaches that there is, Christian Bauer. Well, Misaki Imura steps in, stops. Battiston sees an open opportunity. Preparation on the right. Battiston stepped in and stopped. Back left. Preparation. From the left, a video review is requested. There's going to be a card shown to Amora. We're ducking her ahead, stepping in, backing out, trying to draw the attack. In a sense, left Battiston in a difficult position. Attack right, probably from Amora. We've had great fencing, great fencing, and great matches all day long today. And this is just one more. A lovely stop cut there from Misaki Omura, just over the guard, onto the near target. Misaki Omura does a stutter step into the box, and Battiston does not waste the opportunity. Barry, riposte right, attack left, Battiston just sort of frozen in place. I'll back to you in a minute. The referee, Maura Decker, is going to go and have a look at this in her own volition, try and make a separation. Well, Misaki Omura with the parry riposte is our first Grand Prix champion of 2025. Well earned silver medal for Michaela Battiston, two-time world champion. Misaki Omura just keeps coming back for more. Congratulations to her, to all of our medalists here, and all of the 139. Women's sabres who participated in this Grand Prix. In the preliminaries, Omura takes the blade, plants it. You have to say it was a pretty convincing win for M. Omura. One more gold medal match to go, and there it is, official from Swiss timing. 15-13 the score.