YONEX CZECH ‘11

During the fourth day of the tournament were played finals. Great atmosphere made more than 400 badminton fans.

In men’s single, tournament number 1., Petr Koukal from Czech Republic played final against Dmytro Zavadsky from Ukraine. After Petr’s slow start at the beginning of the first set, he took the lead and kept it till the end of the set. Similar situation was in the second set. He played nice smart badminton, various hits, long strokes, clears were changed by short strokes and drops with final smashes after Dmytro’s mistakes. Dmytro has problems to get into game, could not play his best. Tactically great job of Petr’s couch Ray Stevens. Petr was seeded as number 1. and he confirmed this was right in every match. Nice final spectator visit of few hundreds fans supported Petr during every rally and exulted after his last point in the third set, He won 21:17 a 21:19.

Women’s single final match: Trupti Murgunde (India) vs. Jeanine Cigognini (Switzerland) 21:17 a 21:12. Trupi took the lead and kept it till the end of the match even Jeanine tried to change strategy and get into game. Jeanine did her best in semifinals in excellent match against Xi Zhang from China. Today it was just half of her strong-mindedness, not enough to beat perfectly playing Trupi.

In Mixed doubles easily won Indra Viki Okvana and Gustiani Megawati from Indonesia over the pair from Denmark, Mads Conrad-Petersen, Anne Skelbaek 21:11, 21:13. Danish players did not find how to eliminate smashes of Viki which often led to points. Same situation was in women’s doubles where Maria Helsbol, Anna Skelbaek from Denmark dominated over Marion Gruber, Sabrina Jaquet from Switzerland and won 21:14 a 21:10 in 26 minutes.

Very nice match with many fascinating rallies was in men‘s doubles. Mads Conrad-Petersen, Mads Pieler Kolding beat Mikkel Elbjorn, Christian John Skovgaard with 21:14, 17:21, 21:9. Both pairs from Denmark presented very fast badminton with many drives, smashes and perfect defense often with storm of applause from spectators.

Sunday finals results, please click here:
http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/matches.aspx?id=16164E99-57C6-4E9A-94DD-36261FBEDF81&d=20090927