At the AIG VICTOR Irish Open 2024 (International Challenge), the DBV athletes reached the semi-finals once and the quarter-finals three times.
The mixed Jones Jansen/Thuc Phuong Nguyen reached the final four of the $15,000 tournament. On the way there, the DBV mixed team prevailed against, among others, Kenneth Neumann/Linda Efler in the round of 16. The semi-final was against Callum Hemming/Estelle Van Leeuwen [3] Ending. Jansen/Nguyen lost to the eventual winners from England 14-21, 19-21.
Malik Bourakkadi/Leona Michalski [4] reached the quarterfinals in the mixed doubles after two wins.
In the women’s singles, Miranda Wilson reached the quarterfinals. She had to meet Huang Yu-Hsun [7] from Taiwan with 7-21, 16-21. Malik Bourakkadi/Kenneth Neumann also made it to the quarterfinals in the men’s doubles. The young DBV pairing lost to the number one seeded pairing of Christopher Grimley/Matthew Grimley (Scotland) 17-21, 10-21.
“Intensive days in Dublin are the hallmarks of tournaments of this kind. Challenges in Europe mean a lot of competitive toughness that needs to be demonstrated. Jones and Thuc achieved a very good victory in the quarter-finals against the finalists of the HYLO Open. We are currently seeing a lot of development, and some things are reflected also reflected in the results, some things are not yet. And that’s exactly where we want and have to attack with the young players. Next week in Glasgow, says head national coach Hannes Käsbauer to badminton.de.
