Serena Au Yeong and Katharina Hochmeir were eliminated in the round of 16 of the women’s doubles at the European Badminton Championships in Saarbrücken. The duo of the Austrian Badminton Association (ÖBV) had to admit defeat to the fifth-seeded German local heroes Linda Efler/Isabel Lohau 0:2 (12:21, 10:21) on Thursday.
In the first round, Au Yeong/Hochmeir defeated the Czechs Veronika Brozkovcova/Veronika Dobiasova 2-0 (21:15, 21:11).