Carolina Marín, triple badminton world champion, achieved her second victory in the European Championships held in Madrid by beating the Ukrainian in just 23 minutes Maria Ultina59 in the world, and remains the only Spanish representative in the competition after the elimination of Bea Corrales.
The player from Huelva, who suffered a serious injury during training on May 28, 2021, reappeared yesterday on the Madrid track of Gallureleven months later, with a resounding victory over the Czech Katerina Tomalova.
With a dedicated grandstand, which did not stop applauding each point achieved, the Spanish athlete brought out her best game repertoire to put the direct and access to quarter finals winning 21-7 and 21-8.
Carolina Marín started the game with a partial 6-0 that dislodged Ulitina, that she did not know how to stop her rival’s direct play, that continually tested her with a combination of long and short plays that she could not stop and ended up driving her to despair, as reflected by the lack of dedication she had in the last actions .
The dream of Beatrice Corrales, 51 in the ranking, finished in the round of 16. In the first round she beat the Israeli Ksenia Polikarpovasecond to Serbia Marija Sudimacbut in the third he could not with the Danish Line Hojmark Kjaersfeldseventh seeded, with whom he lost by a double 21-12.
Precisely the Danish will be Carolina Marín’s rival in the quarterfinals, round to which she enters as only spanish in competition.
The other quarter pairings are the ones that will measure the Danish Line Christophersen with the turkish Neslihan Yigitthe Scottish Kirsty Gilmour with the Belgian Lianne Tanand the French Qi Xuefei with the danish Mia Blichfeldt.
In the men’s category, the Danish Viktor Axelsenseeded number one and continental champion in 2016 and 2018, achieved his second victory of the tournament by beating (21-11 and 21-17) the German Max Weisskirchen.
His compatriot did the same. Anders Antonsenwho got rid of Spanish Luis Enrique Penalver by fast track in 35 minutes by 21-13 and 21-15.
The quarter-final pairings will face the Dane Anders Antonsen with the irish Nhat Nguyento danish Hans Kristian Solberg with the french Take Junior Popov, al galo Brice Leverdez with the israeli Misha Zilberman and also French Thomas Rouxel with the main favourite, Viktor Axelsen.
In doubles the Spanish Joan Monroy and Carlos Piris they lost in the round of 16 with the French brothers Christo and Toma Junior Popov by 21-10 and 22-20.
