Serbian and Romanian teams win the Junior Girl’s team and Cadet team events of the Austrian Open
The finals of the Junior Girl’s team events of the Joola Austrian Junior and Cadet Open were contested on the evening of 19 April at Linz, Austria. In the final hurdle, the teams from Serbia and Romania won the Junior Girl’s team and Cadet team events.
The Serbian team featured Anelia Lupulesku, Aliz Durcik and Aleksandra Radonjic. They were the Number two seeded team in the event. The Hungarian team was the surprise finalist of the event as the team of Johanna Hepke, Mercedes Nagyvaradi and Szilvia Fülöp
defeated the team from the Czech Republic. The Hungarian team worked hard and managed to make it into the finals.
The final was an exciting full five match competition. The first match of the final, Aleksandra Radonjic from Serbia beat Johanna Hepke from Hungary. The next two matches went to the Hungarian team, at the end of three matches the Hungarian team was leading
by two-one. The Serbian team made a come-back and Anelia Lupulesku and Radonjic won the reverse order matches against Hepke and Nagyvaradi respectively.
In the semi-final stage the Serbian trio beat the team from France. The exciting match went the full distance. The team of Marina Berho, Sarah Berge and Alyssia Perrin levelled matters until the fourth game, but the Serbian player Aliz Durcik defeated Marina Berho
from France in the decider match.
At the quarter-final stage, the team from Slovenia faced defeat against the Serbian team. The Slovenian trio of Nina Zupancic, Alex Galic and Katja Gutnik were comprehensively beat by the Serbian Girls in straight matches with a three-nil score.
For the Hungarian team it was fate that was in their favour and they reached the finals of the competition. In the group matches they defeated teams from Austria and Belarus, but lost against the Serbians. They faced the same fate in the finals as well.
During the quarter-final stage, the Hungarian Girl’s proved to be a lethal competitor against the Polish team who were the Number one seeded team of the event. The Hungarian Girl’s faced the trio of Klaudia Kusinska, Katarzyna Slifirczyk and Maja Krzewicka
from Poland. Despite winning the first match of the event, the Polish Girl’s could not keep up the momentum and lost the next two matches and the reverse order match of the round.
In the Junior Cadet Girl’s events, the team from Romania clinched the title of the Junior Girl’s Cadet team event. The team of Bernadett Balint and Diana Lupu recorded an exciting three-nil victory against the Croatian Cadet Girl’s team. The Croatian team
had Ana Santos and Rita Fins on the squad.
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