International Tournament with Boccardo Badminton athletes

Fifteen nations took part in the Bolzano International Spring Tournament. Kermesse that sees Italian hopefuls and their peers from half of Europe at the start with an exotic presence, that of the eleven-year-old Maldivian Laiba Mahloof.

Three Boccardo Badminton athletes took part under the guidance of coach Alessandro Stan. Ahmad Nasir, in the Under 15 age group, gets through the qualifying round by beating the Maltese Juan Casara and Riccardo Capozza of Junior Milano only to be stopped by the Austrian Martin Zhang. Fast adventure in the two doubles, carried out together with the representatives of Uberetsch: Karin Walcher in the Mixed, from which she is excluded by the Porto-Hungarian couple Barroso-Boros and in the Men where she finds her eternal opponent of the Absolutes, Anton Gurschel flanked by her partner of club (Malles) Sebastian Tataru. Even Tommaso Trezza in the Under 17s surpasses the group by making a treble: the Austrian Simone Wang, the Slovenian Roko Trampuz and the Milanese Bastien Bocquet but the quarterfinals are fatal for him. It was the Czech Jakub Klokan who stopped him just a step away from the podium that the boy from Serravalle Scrivia would have deserved.

Again a Czech Dhin Duc Trung, together with Marco Polito from Padua, eliminates him from the double that saw him together with Stefano Torrielli from Nove. The latter wins the first match of the Singles beating Matej Kocir, Slovakian but not the Croatian Vito Radovanovic, seeded number 1. These defeats are the price you have to pay when you meet new opponents, coming in most cases from with a much greater badminton tradition than ours but it is part of that baggage of experience that can only be acquired in this way. Therefore, partially borrowing a phrase from Pindar: “The important thing is not to win but to participate and learn to win later”.

(m.i.)