The young paddler from Burgos Maria Berzosa (14 years old)player of UBU RM Teran from Women’s Honor Divisionhas made history this Thursday in Tunisia by qualifying for the final of the modality of mixed doubles of Youth World Championship in its sub’15 category. Pairing with the Portuguese player Tiago Abidun, both prevailed in their semifinal match 3-2 against the duo formed by the Polish Natalia Bogdanowicz and the swedish William Bergenblock.
Maria and Tiago they started very bluntwinning in the first two sets comfortably by 11-7 y 11-2and perhaps that is why they came out a bit confident at the third set, lost by a clear 5-11and later gave up as well the fourth for 7-11. Thus, the semifinal reached the fifth and final setin which Maria Berzosa and Tiago Abidun they got their best game back by putting 5-0 ahead and the woman from Burgos closed the game with a winning point from the right that meant the 11-5, 3-2 in the match and a ticket for the ffinal sub’15 mixed doubles.
This will be played this Friday at 7:45 p.m. and their rivals will be the couple formed by the current world number 1 sub’15, the Egyptian Hana Goda, and the Kazakh Alan Kurmangaliyed.
Previously, Berzosa and Abidun they had eliminated in round of 16 to the current Champions of Europe Sub’15the French Flavien Coton and Leana Hochart, for 3-1. And already in the quarter finals, to be able to access the fight for the medals, they imposed themselves on the japanese couple formed by Yoshiyama y Ojio. A thrilling encounter in which they clearly lost the first two setsbut in which they knew how to react in time to score the next three gamesthe fifth also by 11-9.
One step away from medals in the women’s doubles
Maria Berzosa He has also competed in the Youth World Championship in the modality of women’s doubles next to the Belgian Lilou Massar. Both also had a great tournament and reached the quarter finals, but in them they ran into the Chinese couple, number 1 in the worldintegrated by Xiang y Yanand ended up losing by a tight score of 3-2 and a result of 11-8 in the fifth and final set.
Ahead in women’s singles
Finally, in women’s singles, María Berzosa expired this thursday 4/2in the round of round of 16, to the champion of South America, Shary Muñoz (Dominican Republic), thus accessing the next round of the final table. It will be measured this Friday at Seung Leeplayer of South Korea what is the current number 6 in the world ranking.
