The Spanish women’s badminton team continues to confirm itself as one of the best in the world by repeating for the second consecutive year the historic ninth place in the Uber Cup. The national team, this time with the intervention of Carolina Marínsaid goodbye to the group stage of the Women’s World Team Championship, a team tournament that is taking place in Bangkok, with their first victory, against Australia by 4-1.
After starting with losses against China Taipei (1-4) and China (0-5), two of the main world powers, the team that leads Arthur Ruiz He had a joy in his last duel in Bangkok and finished in third position in the group and in ninth place in the world. In this way, she returns to show the fruits of the commitment to the female modalities of Spanish badminton through the Uber Cup Project. In addition, it should be noted that the Spanish team was made up of established players such as Carolina Marín, Clara Azurmendi, Bea Corrales o Lorena Uslébut also by young promises like Ania Setien y Lucia Rodriguez.
This third day of the Uber Cup was opened Carolina Marínwho had just won his sixth consecutive European title in Madrid, and beat Chen Hsuan-Yu by 21-12 and 21-18. subsequently Clara Azurmendi win a Louisa Ma by 21-11 and 21-13 and Bea Corralesa Tiffany Ho by 21-14, 17-21 and 21-14.
In the first turn of the doubles, Lucia Rodriguez y Ania Setien they beat Kaitlyn Ea y Amgela Yu by 21-16 and 21-15. The only point of the Australians was added Chen Hsuan-Yu y Wendy Chen by resignation of Clara Azurmendi y Bea Corrales.
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Great moment of Spanish women’s badminton
Spain comes from signing a historic result in the last edition of the Uber Cupwhere the selection directed by Arthur Ruiz y Ernesto Garcia finished as the ninth best team in the world, a result that had never been achieved before. In addition, beyond the historic result, they highlighted the good feelings shown by our players, who continue to give continuity to the good feelings shown in the last few months of competition and can do great things in the future.
The great moment of Spanish women’s badminton is largely due to the launch of the Iberdrola Uber Cup Projectwhose main purpose is to promote women’s team competition within the sports project of FESBA. The birth of this project gave rise to the documentary BRAVEa tour of the days of work and coexistence of the players of the Spanish team in the concentration developed in La Nucia prior to the Uber Cup 2021.
The report includes testimonials from Clara Azurmendi, Bea Corrales, Ania Setien, Lucia Rodriguez, Lorena Uslé, Paula Lopez, Claudia Leal y Nerea Ivorrathe eight players who were part of the national team, which on this occasion could not count on Carolina Marín for recovering from his knee injury. Of course, the Olympic champion and three-time world champion also participates in the production, as does the technical director of the Federation Arthur Ruiz and the coach of the CTD of Alicante Loli Marco.
In addition to explaining how a concentration of several weeks is experienced, the protagonists review their beginnings in badminton, talk about the sacrifices they have made in search of their dream of reaching the top and talk about their concerns both sporting and non-sports .
THE UBER CUP PROJECT
This is a new initiative that, firstly, seeks to promote women’s doubles events in preparation for team competitions, in which two of the three points at stake are doubles. Another great objective of this program, as its name indicates, is to make a leap in quality in the next editions of the Uber Cupthe women’s competition par excellence and one of the most famous events on the world scene after the Olympic Games and the World championship.
Spain achieves the best position in its history in the Uber Cup.
The challenge of Iberdrola Uber Cup Project is to generate a women’s team that is sustainable over time and that produces results in the singles and doubles competitions in the coming years. In addition, it seeks to be able to form a monitoring structure for the lower U19 and U17 female categories that can apply for places within the project in the future.
Although badminton is already known as ‘a sport with a woman’s name’ thanks to the deeds of Carolina Marínthe Spanish Badminton Federation is aware of the great potential of its female athletes and has set important goals. One of them is to place at least two doubles pairs among the top 100 to get points in the world team ranking and be seeded in the Women’s European Team Championship.
The green shoots begin to be visible, since the tandem formed by Clara Azurmendi y Bea Corrales can end the year among the top 60 in the world. Another important challenge is to enhance the women’s individual event to place between three and five players in the top 100 of the world ranking. The talent is there, all that remains is to polish it until it is transformed into sporting successes.
The impulse of Iberdrola Uber Cup Project women’s badminton may be such that Spain could opt for medals in the European Championships of the coming years and in the 2023 European Games and, why not, to the classification of a Spanish couple to compete in the women’s doubles in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The starting point of this initiative is the professionalization of the athletes, to later focus on the planning of the competitions and the carrying out of preparatory technical concentrations. Therefore, the athletes integrated in the project will receive an economic scholarship and their participation in international competitions that serve to improve the world ranking in the different specialization tests will be covered. In addition, preparatory concentrations will be held at a national and international level so that the components of the project have specific training in the different tests included in the project. Finally, the international calendar of the athletes will be coordinated with their coaches, with the aim of achieving the highest possible productivity in the team as a whole.
Proper names on the international scene
Spanish badminton has wickers to be able to achieve the objectives set, largely thanks to consecrated athletes such as Carolina Marín, Clara Azurmendi o Beatrice Corrales, all of them in the top 100 of the world ranking and with ample international experience. Let us remember that Marín is the world leader in women’s badminton, Azurmendi He has added national and international titles in both singles and doubles with Corrales.
In addition, we must not forget the young promises who are knocking on the door of the elite and aspire to be part of the Spanish team in the future, such as Ania Setien, Lucia Rodriguez, Paula Lopez, Lorena Uslé, Nerea Ivorra, Claudia Leal. The great moment of Setién y Rodríguez was seen in the Absolute Spanish Championship while Uslé y López They shone as a couple Spanish International, where the silver was hung. Besides Ivorra y Leal They also know what it means to climb international podiums, as they won silver in the women’s doubles at the Lithuanian Open.
The singles are covered by the most experienced players and by the force with which the players of the lower categories come. For this reason, the key is the development of the doubles tests and from there this project was born. The first steps have been taken and the couples formed have demonstrated their ability both nationally and internationally. It will be a matter of time before the efforts of the Spanish Badminton Federation and entities such as Higher Sports Council (via Your Project Woman and Sport and the Youth Sports Foundation), allies of Spanish sport in general and promoters of this project in particular.
spain You already know your rivals in the group stage of the Uber Cup 2022after the draw held this Friday at the headquarters of the International Federation (BWF). The women’s team has been framed in Group B along with China, China Taipei y Australia.
The Uber Cup is the name given to the World Championships for women’s teams and takes place from May 8 to 15 in Bangkok along with the men’s version of the Thomas Cupwith the 16 best teams on the planet.
Regarding the competition, it is organized by groups of four teams among which it is necessary to be in first or second place to play the quarterfinals.
Of the rivals of the Spanish, it is worth highlighting the high level of China and of China Taipei. The Chinese team stands out for having, on an individual level, the Olympic champion Chen Yu Fei and the medalists at the 2021 Huelva World Championship He Bing Jiao y Zhang Yi Man. Also, as for the doubles, Chen Qing Chen y Jia Yi Fan They come from hanging silver in Tokyo 2020 and world gold in the city of Huelva.
Besides, China Taipei has Tai Tzu Ying, who is number 1 in the world ranking, Olympic runner-up and world runner-up. Finally, there is no doubt that Australia It is the most affordable rival of the group, which does not mean that you have to fight with everything to achieve victory.
It should be remembered that Spain has just signed a historic result in the last edition of the Uber Cupwhere the selection directed by Arthur Ruiz y Ernesto Garcia finished as the ninth best team in the world, a result that had never been achieved before. In addition, beyond the historic result, they highlighted the good feelings shown by our players, who continue to give continuity to the good feelings shown in the last few months of competition and can do great things in the future.
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