April – July 2007
The last four months have been very successful for the athletes of the BWF World Training Center Saarbruecken, Germany.
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One of the most successful “trophy-collector” was 23 year old Larysa Gryga from the Ukraine. She started her run on the first placings in Holland, reaching the final of the Velo Holland Open 2007.
She won the 2007 Victorian International in Australia. On her way to the title, Larysa defeated Rachel Hindley (NZL) in the semi-final, and not giving a chance to Ragna Ingolfsdottir from Iceland in the final, winning 21-11 and 21-10.
She repeated her victory, from Australia in New Zealand, winning against Chloe Magee from Ireland in the round of the last four, having a World-Training-Center-Final, by playing against Nhung Ngoc Nguyen Le from Vietnam, winning 21-19 and 21-14.
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Kristina Ludikova from the Czech Republic made her way through to the semi-finals in the Netherland’ s Velo Holland Open 2007. Her opponent was the subsequent winner Kati Tolmoff from Estonia.
She was also in the semi-finals in Australia against Ragna Ingolfsdottir.
Olga Konon from Belarus was in the final of the White-Nights in Russia where she met Japans Kanako Yonekura!
Raul Must (EST) met Vladislav Druzhchenko from the Ukraine in the semi-finals of the 31st Polish International Open 2007. |
Our World Training Center-players Raju Rai from the USA and Kestutis Navickas from Lithuania were both very successful in New Zealand, where they played against each other in the quarter finals. Kestutis prevailed in this match. In the semi final he had to play the local hero John Moody from NZL.
Raju achieved another good result, reaching the runner-up position at the Carebaco-International Open 2007 in Suriname where he played the subsequent winner Brice Leverdez from France. He also reached the semifinal in Australia early this month.
Kevin Cordon was also in the semi-final in Suriname where he also played Leverdez from France.
Miss Jeanine Cicognini from Switzerland played in Mauritius in May his year. She reached the semi-final against Agnese Allegrini from Italy.
Another tournament-winner was Claudia Rivero from Peru. She won the XII Peru International in April this year and got to the semi-final in Miami.
More Quarter Final-Results:
Laryisa Gryga (UKR):
- 31st Polish International Open 2007
- XX Spanish-Open in Madrid
- “Le Volant d’ Or de Toulouse-Blagnac 2007”.
Kristina Ludikova (CZE):
- 42nd Portuguese International Championships
- XX Spanish-Open
- New Zealand 2007
Yuhan Tan (BEL)
- White-Nights tournament in Sankt-Petersburg/Russia.
Olga Konon (BLR)
- 31st Polish International Open 2007.
Grace Daniel (NGR)
- Mauritius International 2007.
Simone Prutsch (AUT)
- Madrid at the XX Spanish-Open.
Results at Continental Championships / Continental Game
| Pan American Championships: 15th to 20th May 2007 |
Claudia Rivero: Silvermedalist
Sarah MacMaster: Semifinal WS
Kevin Cordon: Quarterfinal MS
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Pan American Games: 14th to 19th July 2007
MS - Kevin Cordon: Silvermedalist |
MS - Rodrigo Pacheco: Semifinal MS
WS - Sarah MacMaster: Semifinal WS
WS - Claudia Rivero: Semifinal WS
XD - Claudia Rivero/Rodrigo Pacheco: Semifinal XD & MD - Kevin Cordon/Rudolfo Ramirez: (Quarterfinals) |
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All Africa Championships: 21st to 27th May 2007 |
WS – Grace Daniel: WINNER
WD – Grace Daniel/Karen Foo Kune: Silvermedalists
MS – Eli Mambwe: Silvermedalist
MS – Edwin Ekiring: Semifinalist
XD – Eli Mambwe/Ogar Siamupangila |
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All Africa Games: 09th to 23rd July 2007 |
WS - Grace Daniel: WINNER
MS - Eli Mambwe: Silvermedalist
MS - Edwin Ekiring: Semifinalist
WD Grace Daniel/Ideh Susan Funaya: Silvermedalists
XD - Grace Daniel/Greg Okuonghae: Silvermdalists
XD - Eli Mambwe/Ogar Siamupangila: Semifinalists |
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