With a 6-1 defeat on Saturday against third-placed Bischmisheim and a 5-2 win on Sunday against bottom-placed Offenburg, first-division badminton team TSV Neuhausen-Nymphenburg ended the season and finished seventh ahead of 1. BC Beuel, who had the same number of points. Team manager Philipp Blonck was “very satisfied” with this result and not least with the commitment shown by his squad in the second half of the season, as he summed up, precisely because ninth and penultimate place in the table would have been enough to stay in the league this time. Because it had been clear for several weeks that neither a team from the southern nor from the northern group of the second division would be willing to advance to the top floor and that BC Offenburg would withdraw from it as the last team. “Our top priority is to get the team,” says Blonck now with a view to the next season, in which only nine instead of ten teams will be represented in the first division.
