Good performance of athletes Club Bádminton Xàtiva in the third day of the School Games for cadet categoryheld last Saturday in Ibi. Four Setabense players achieved a full victories, winning all four matches played. They were Andrea Orquín, Jesús Cimas, Maria Sanz and David Polop. In addition, Sergi Benet got three wins out of four possible.
CB Xàtiva attended the event with eight athletes and, despite the three casualties of players from the top of the classification, they achieved very good performance, especially in the doubles tests, where they won with 75% of victories. In the individual test they achieved a 56% of triumphs. The third day of the Jocs Escolars de la Comunitat Valenciana in the cadet category, held in Ibi, brought together 49 athletes from sports clubs and schools from all over the Valencian territory.
The next competitions for Badminton Xàtiva go through the Under-15 and under-19 master’s degree; the Spanish Para Badminton International; and the third day of the Jocs for the juvenile category. In the master’s degree, the first of the season, seven athletes from Setabense will participate, who will travel next weekend to the Aragonese town of Alfajarín, accompanied by two club technicians. Ximo Torres and Sarai Ramón will compete in the sub-15 category; while David Polop, Maria Sanz, Jaume Tur, Vicent Molina and Hugo Medina will do it in sub-19.
In the Spanish Para Badminton International II 2022, which takes place in Vitoria from last Tuesday, March 1, until next Sunday, March 6, and which opens the international para badminton competition, the athlete from the Setabense club Thomas Wandschneider will participate. The player of German origin has been preparing in recent months in Germany, along with the rest of the members of the German para badminton team, and returns to Spain to participate in this event, where he will compete in the singles and doubles events , alongside Rick Cornell Hellmann. The Zabalgana Civic Center in Vitoria, where the competition takes place, will host 178 athletes in the different tests of each functional class.
For its part, on the third day of the Jocs Esportius of the Valencian Community for fry, which takes place this Saturday in Enguera, the athletes of this category from the Xàtiva club and the Municipal Sports School of Badminton will participate.