Danish Open (Super 750)
After a longer than expected warm-up (21-13, 22-24, 21-12 in 1 h 04 ‘), Wednesday, against the South Koreans Kim and Lee, Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue (N.7 world ) validated, this Thursday, their ticket for the quarter-finals of the Danish Open (Super 750 endowed with $750,000). Faced with the Japanese Kaneko – Matsumoto (N.18), the vice-champions of Europe took their revenge (21-15, 23-21) from the last Worlds, where the 2016 Olympic champion in women’s doubles and her partner had eliminated the Blues “from” the 8th finals.
Against the world champions on Friday
This time, after a smoothly conducted and perfectly mastered first set, Gicquel and Delrue (23 years old) were a little scared in the second, where, after leading 10-3, they saw the Japanese pair leading 17- 13. But the Tricolores did not give up to win 23-21.
In the quarter-finals, this Friday, the Bretillien and Val-d’Oisienne will find the Chinese Zheng – Huang (N.3), who lead two to zero in their confrontations. There is no doubt that they will have cast more than an eye on the end of the match of the world champions who were heckled (10-21, 21-19, 19-21) by the Danes Mikkelsen – Soby.
