“Tough” is the word that comes around the most when Emma Jacques speaks about her time last season. One of the brightest talents to come out of the Metz handball school in a long time, the left-hander was struck down mid-flight by a knee injury back in April last year. “I took a few days to take it in and to start smiling again. This torn ACL, along with the meniscus injury that I suffered in November, made last season a hard one for me” she says.