Under Spanish skies, the individual UEM reached both the round of 16 and quarter-finals on Tuesday. Four Danish doubles advanced through both rounds and secured a place in tomorrow’s semi-finals.
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As Tuesday afternoon slipped into early evening, five Danish constellations took to the pitch at UEM in Ibiza to play their quarter-finals in several cases with the prospect of tough and highly seeded opposition. Otto Reiler and Amanda Aarrebo Petersen, for example, had the top-rated French couple Tom Lalot Trescarte and Elsa Jacob to look forward to. This quarter-final was a repeat of the mixed doubles match from the team final at UEM, but this time with a Danish victory, 21-18, 21-6.
– I’ll probably have to emphasize that Otto and Amanda beat the top-seeded French, from whom they got a good beating in the team final. It is of course a combination of many things. That we could play a little more without risk, and then of course also that the others would be terribly nervous on the other side. But it’s super nice, U19 national coach Jonas Lyduch said afterwards about the performance.
On court 3, it was time for Robert Nebel and Anna-Sofie Nielsen to take on their Spanish hosts at home. However, the eighth-seeded pair consisting of Adolfo Lopez and Carmen Maria Jimenez proved too strong and after three hard-fought sets could celebrate the Spanish victory, 19-21, 21-19, 9-21.
– I might also have hoped that we could win the second mixed, but we lose it rather closely in three sets. And then we win the rest. I think that’s great, said Jonas Lyduch.
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Amanda Aarrebo Petersen and Maria Højlund Tommerup accounted for one of the remaining victories. Here they had good control over the French opponent pair Agathe Cuevas and Kathell Desmots-Chacun in two sets, 21-18, 21-14.
– Maria and Amanda beat the second-seeded French. I don’t think it’s a huge surprise. But I still think that beating the second seeds is fine, said Jonas Lyduch.
Also on the men’s doubles front, it was the Danes who had the upper hand. Robert Nebel and Otto Reiler did well against Holland’s fifth-seeded pair of Casper Spaans and Joep Strooper by the numbers, 21-17, 22-20. The second Danish men’s doubles team, which has been hampered by illness in one half, played a close match against the fourth-seeded English pair of Benjamin Horseman and Jia Bin Lee. The match went back and forth for several periods, but in the end it was the Danes who were able to emerge victorious from the exciting showdown with the numbers, 19-21, 21-16, 21-18.
– I think it’s a good performance by Jesper and Philip that they get to lift this home in three close sets with Phillip, who is still not quite at his peak physically after his illness. I think that the quarter-finals are probably a bit difficult to be dissatisfied with, said Jonas Lyduch on top of today’s Danish performances in the quarter-finals.
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Earlier today, the Danish U19 players were in the round of 16, which was the final stop for Anna-Sofie Nielsen and Jasmin Willis, for whom the sixth-seeded pair Maria Koriagina/Yaroslava Vantsarovska from Ukraine was too big a mouthful. The match ended in favor of Ukraine, 12-21, 16-21. The Danes also had a tough ride in the singles categories of the round of 16.
– We are a bit hit by the two women’s singles and the men’s single. I don’t think we expected to win the women’s singles, but we probably hoped we could do a little better. So that, I think, was a bit harsh. Of course, they do what they can, but there were two games with defeats right after each other. And then Salomon also loses to a Scotsman, where we probably also had our noses up at winning. I don’t think I’d bet much on the women’s doubles losing. I think it’s good that the others win. So I think we actually came out of the round of 16 honorably, even though we just had three singles that we lost, where we were a bit disappointed, said Jonas Lyduch on top of the round of 16.
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Tomorrow at At 9.30 the first semi-finals are served, and there are Danish players on the field from the start.
Tuesday’s Danish results
Quarterfinals
- Amanda Aarrebo Petersen/Maria Højlund Tommerup (8.) – Agathe Cuevas/Kathell Desmots-Chacun (2.) (France): 21-18, 21-14
- Otto Reiler/Amanda Aarrebo Petersen – Tom Lalot Trescarte/Elsa Jacob (1.) (France): 21-18, 21-6.
- Robert Nebel/Anna-Sofie Nielsen – Adolfo Lopez/Carmen Maria Jimenez (8.) (Spain): 19-21, 21-19, 9-21.
- Philip Kryger Boe/Jesper Østergaard Christensen – Benjamin Horseman/Jia Bin Lee (4.) (England): 19-21, 21-16, 21-18.
- Robert Nebel/Otto Reiler – Casper Spaans/Joep Strooper (5.) (Holland): 21-17, 22-20
Round of 16
- Otto Reiler/Amanda Aarrebo Petersen – Vojtěch Havlíček/Kateřina Koliášová (13th) (Tjekkiet): 21-13, 21-10
- Amanda Aarrebo Petersen/Maria Højlund Tommerup (8.) – Sofie Chong/Lucy Dodd (England): 21-13, 21-7
- Robert Nebel/Otto Reiler – Ewan Goulin Arsene Serre (France): 21-10, 21-23, 21-14
- Robert Nebel/Anna-Sofie Nielsen – Luca-Stefan Pandele/Denisa-Maria Muscalu (10.) (Romanian): 19-21, 21-19, 21-13
- Caroline Mouritsen – Siofra Flynn (4th) (Ireland): 7-21, 11-21
- Kajsa Van Dalm – Nella Nyqvist (Finland): 5-21, 8-21
- Philip Kryger Boe/Jesper Østergaard Christensen – Matus Polacek/Andrej Suchy (Slovenia): 21-19, 21-11
- Salomon Adam Thomasen – Matthew Warring (16.) (Scotland): 12-21, 21-15, 16-21
- Anna-Sofie Nielsen/Jasmin Willis – Maria Koriagina/Yaroslava Vantsarovska (6.) (Ukraine): 12-21, 16-21
