The aspiring Danish stars ended the team championship at this year’s European Youth Championships in the most distinguished way with a third gold medal in a row in a great victory over the French youth national team. Today, most of the Danish talents took part in this year’s individual championships, and it was a great success for the vast majority.
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It was a satisfied national youth coach who took stock of a great Danish second day at the individual championships in Ibiza. At the Mediterranean, the future Danish stars could record a total of six victories out of a possible eight.
– I think we are off to a good start for the mixers. Otto and Amanda have to face a Polish opponent, which we were a little uneasy about, but we win, and I think that was good. Robert and Anna win against the Dutch, it was perhaps a little more expected. In the men’s singles, Philip Kryger Boe faces the top seeded Pole, but Philip has been very ill all night so we just wanted to see if we could get him on the court and do as well as possible because he also has a men’s doubles he is in, and of course we hope that he is better, but he was not at his best, and that is also reflected in the result, said youth national coach Jonas Lyduch about a selection of the Danish matches.
Among the six great Danish victories, as Lyduch mentions, Otto Reiler/Amanda Aarebo Petersen’s was worth highlighting. The talented Danish pair faced the seventh-seeded Poles Morawski/Janko, but the Danes did not let that deter them. In a true demonstration of power, the Danish pair stripped the polish of the decorations, and played their way through in two sets with the numbers: 21-9, 21-13.
In addition to Otto Reiler/Amanda Aarebo Petersens, Caroline Mouritsen also took a nice victory over Norwegian Linnea Holmedal in a classy performance, where Mouritsen showed great advantage, and the Danish women’s singles seemed to be in control of the match from the first ball.
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– Salomon has a relatively easy win against one from Cyprus, but I think the players from the small nations are getting better and better. Caroline Mouritsen and Kajsa Van Dalm win fairly affordable victories in women’s singles, as they should, and it was super good. Simon Rasmussen loses in three sets to the best Frenchman. Although it says 12 and 15 in the last two sets, he is actually ahead in both of them. It has been difficult for Simon, he has gone all week and only been a spectator, because we have had to play some others, but I think he went well for it and he did what he could, said Jonas Lyduch about the other Danish matches on Sunday.
Tomorrow, the second and third rounds await, with a total of ten Danish matches.
– The games are getting harder and harder, and we have some difficult tasks, but in some of the games I think we are clear favourites. Kajsa and Salomon have to do some difficult tasks, and so do our men’s doubles. We don’t yet know where Philip is in terms of his health, but Otto and Robert are going in to face the Turks who gave them trouble in the team tournament. When we get into the third round, we really have to be sharp. I of course believe that we have a chance in all these matches, but that is becoming less and less likely, said the youth national coach about tomorrow’s challenges for the Danish players.
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Sunday’s Danish results:
Robert Nebel/Anna-Sofie Nielsen – Casper Spaans/Inger Pothuizen (Holland): 21-14, 21-11.
Otto Reiler/Amanda Aarrebo Petersen – Mikolaj Morawski/Maja Janko(7th) (Poland): 21-9, 21-13.
Jesper Østergaard Christensen/Caroline Mouritsen – Adam Travinsky/Alina Bergelson (Israel): 21-13, 21-14.
Philip Kryger Boe – Mateusz Golas(1.) (Poland): 8-21, 10-21.
Kajsa Van Dalm – Leyla Jamalzade (Azerbaijan): 21-10, 21-14.
Salomon Thomasen – Ioannis Tambourlas (Cyprus): 21-16, 21-11.
Caroline Mouritsen – Linnea Holmedal (Norway): 21-10, 21-8.
Simon Rasmussen – Arthur Tatranov (14th) (France): 21-19, 12-21, 15-21.
