Fernanda Saponara continues her upward path in badminton and today she is one of our main cards in the I Junior Pan American Games Cali – Valle 2021 that will take place in Colombia from November 25 to December 5.
Our main badminton player comes from Europe because she has been hired by the KBK (Kolding Badminton Klub) of Denmark to play the Danish league in the 2021-2022 season. It is important to note that Fernanda has the opportunity to train and compete at a super level, which allows her to improve and mature because, let’s remember that Denmark has the last world champion and the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Viktor Axelsen.
In addition, Denmark is the only European country that is in the Top 8 of the world, in recent years and in the last Sudirman Cup 2021, held from September 26 to November 3 of this year in Vantaa, Finland, as well as in the Thomas Cup 2021 and the Uber Cup 2021, emphasizing that the top 7 countries are Asian.
Previously, Saponara had had 2 opportunities to go out to European leagues, the first to Italy and the second to Spain and due to pandemic reasons and restrictions in administrative procedures they could not be specified, the third time was the defeat of one of the most popular leagues. strong from Europe, the Danish.
Fernanda has participated in a training base in August in Denmark by the FDPB and later it was a training clinic in Aguas Calientes, Mexico, invited by PANAM that has a program of Young Talents of the Pan American zone, in order to help to the athletes of the countries in the area to improve their level and achieve better results, Fernanda is part of this group of talents
Due to his high international level, he is invited by PANAM to two weeks of training at the COE (Center of Excellence) in Holbaek – Denmark, for two weeks. And then he joined KBK and on October 9 he made his debut in the Danish league, in the 3rd Club Team Match.
Fernanda Saponara to arrive in optimal conditions at the Junior Pan American Games in Cali has participated in training sessions with her team, the KBK in Kolding in Denmark, practices in Odense, competition in the LI-NING Czech Open 2021 in the Czech Republic, the YONEX Belgian International 2021 Leuven , Belgium, 4th Team Match of the Danish league and the 46Th VICTOR FZ FORZA Hungarian International Championships 2021 in Budaors, Hungary.
Saponara will return to Lima after intense training and high-level competitions with his team, KBK, to leave with the Peruvian delegation to the Panamericano Juvenil de Cali and will immediately have to return to Denmark for the 5th Team Match with his club in the Danish league.
Fernanda Saponara is another of the great Peruvian letters on a continental level. South American team champion in 2018 playing in two categories: absolute and sub-19. In addition, she was the Peruvian representative in the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games, indicates the Peruvian Badminton Sports Federation.
She has been South American Youth Champion 5 consecutive years in Singles and Mixed, South American Senior Runner-up in Singles 3 consecutive times even as a youth, five times Bronze medalist at the Pan American Youth level, in Singles (Salvador de Bahía 2018 and Moncton 2019), Mixed and Doubles, a gold medal in Singles at the South American Youth Games in Santiago de Chile 2017, in which Fernanda was the standard bearer for Peru, Silver in Doubles and Bronze in Mixed. He was also in the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires 2018, ranks # 15 in the world at the youth level, where he made a mixed pair with the 2018 YOG Olympic champion, Shifeng Li from China, has participated in 4 World Cups Youth and countless BWF Opens.
