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14/04/2024
The Spanish Carolina Marín She beat the Danish Julie Dawall Jakobsen in two sets by 21-16 and 21-7 and put her on the path to the final of the European Badminton Championships in Saarbrücken (Germany), in which she will face the Scottish Kristy Gilmour in search of her seventh continental gold.
“Very, very happy with how the match went, with how I felt on the court,” said the Huelva native at the end of the match, downplaying the discomfort she felt in her knee yesterday against the Frenchwoman Leónice Huet. “All forgotten.”
Carolina Marín arrived without giving up a single set in the previous rounds and in the semifinal she also won her match with authority, after dominating it from the beginning with very powerful and confident blows that took the Dane off the court, always on the defensive in her game. .
The dominance of the Spanish was so overwhelming that in the second set they had an advantage of fourteen match points, something that made it impossible for Jakobsen, the eighth seed, to consider a comeback.
Carolina Marín will face Kristy Gilmour, three-time European runner-up, in the final. always losing in the final against the Spanish. The Scotswoman won her semifinal 21-18 and 21-13 against Turkey’s Neslihan Arin.
“Now I am focused on what I have to do, on this game plan that I always do before entering a match. Prepared to play one more final in a European championship,” she commented.
Carolina Marín’s goal is to achieve her seventh continental gold in a row and continue expanding a record that also includes an Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro 2016 and three world champion titles in 2014, 2015 and 2018.
2024-04-14 06:25:50
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