The 3rd league game weekend of the Lower Saxony League took place on October 27th, 2024. Our first team welcomed SV Harkenbleck 2 and TuS Germania Hohnhorst in their own hall with a large number of spectators. With a short and partly slightly injured line-up, it started against Harkenbleck 2. The team for both encounters consisted of Ulrike, Marie, Jana, Björn, Adrian, Torsten and Stefan.
The Grasdorfers started the encounter strongly. All three games in the three double disciplines were won. Only Torsten Siemer and Stefan Thoben had to fight a bit, but were able to convince in the third set and win. In the women’s singles, Marie-Christin Voigt competed against Leonie Sauer. Unfortunately, Marie had to admit defeat in an exciting and close game. Particularly noteworthy is the performance of the team DJ and always in a good mood Stefan Thoben, who had to compete in his third singles against the reigning district singles champion, Henry Fösten. Standing up on the right foot and with good music in his luggage, he swept the region’s district champion out of the hall 21:4 in the second set. A draw was already certain. In the next game, Björn Plaggenborg was able to put the lid on the first single and gave the Grasdorfers a secure victory. Unfortunately, the second singles and the mixed doubles deservedly went to the guests from Harkenbleck, so at the end of the first encounter it was 5:3 for VfL.
In the second match of the day, the Grasdorf team got off to a strong start again. Apparently there has been a strong focus on doubles training in the last few weeks, because here too all three doubles disciplines were won. This time it continued with victories and Ulrike Plaggenborg with the women’s singles and the mixed doubles with Torsten Siemer / Marie-Christin Voigt collected the further points for VfL. Only Adrian Belke and Björn Plaggenborg had to admit defeat to the Hohnhorstern in their individual matches. One or two individual training sessions will probably have to be added in the next few weeks. Due to an injury-related abandonment of the guests’ third men’s singles, which Stefan Thoben would have played, the final score was 6:2 for VfL. We are sure that Stefan would have won that easily too.
Overall, we can be very satisfied with the match day and are looking forward! With 9 points and a clearly positive match record, VfL is currently in 2nd place in the table. The coming matchdays will still be crucial in order to continue to position yourself at the top of the table.
The next matchday nearby will take place on November 24th, 2024 in Suthwiesenstrasse near Hannover 96. The first team is already looking forward to the support off the pitch! So please come to the hall in Döhren and cheer us on!
The results and the current table can be found here:
Tournament.de – Badminton leagues Lower Saxony 2024/25 – General
Torsten Siemer, 28.10.2024
