Carolina Marín beat the Danish Julie Dawall Jakobsen this Saturday in two sets by 21-16 y 21-7 and headed straight towards the final of the European badminton tournament in Saarbrücken, in which she will face the Scottish Kristy Gilmour in search of his seventh continental gold.
Carolina Marín llHe went 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 Spanish’s dominance was so overwhelming that in the second set lended up having an advantage of fourteen match pointssomething that made it impossible for Jakobsen, the eighth seed, to consider a comeback.
Carolina Marín will face Kristy Gilmour in the final, three-time European runner-up, always losing in the final to the Spanish. The Scotswoman won her semifinal 21-18 and 21-13 against Turkey’s Neslihan Arin.
Carolina Marín’s objective 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.
2024-04-13 13:35:35
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