A very important double match day is coming up BV Wesel RW in the badminton regional league. On Saturday (3 p.m.) the fifth-placed team (4:4 points) will be visiting 1. CfB Köln (6./2:6), on Sunday (2 p.m.) the bottom team, which still has no points, will be a guest 1. BC Wipperfeld III in the Weseler round sports hall.
“We could live with a point in Cologne,” said the BV team manager Andreas Ruth. “In the home games they are usually stronger, and their defeats so far have all been very close.” In the cathedral city it will also be a reunion for the red and whites with their ex-player Kira Kattenbeck give.
The Weselers are then on duty on Sunday. “Wipperfeld is still having a hard time as a promoted team, we should win this game,” demands Ruth, whose club would take further big steps towards staying in the league with at least three points from these two games. There is nothing standing in the way of this project in terms of personnel.
Weseler youngsters successful at the “Westdeutsche”.
Both West German Championships In the U11 to U19 age groups, BV Wesel was represented with eleven participants in all age groups, more than in a long time. “We were also more successful than we have been for a long time,” says Andreas Ruth. “This success is the result of the intensive promotion of competitive sports by our professional coaching team under the performance of the former top 10 world ranking player and two-time Olympian Ella Diehl. We already laid the foundation for this success in 2016 with the commitment of her husband Rainer Diehl and laid a little later by Ella Diehl. Two years ago, Rainer’s sporting achievements were transferred to Ella.”
Four Weseler talents won the DM ticket in six disciplines: Lea Diehl in U15 singles and doubles Nathalie Wittenbrock (SuS Obere Saar); Pauline Hagemann in the U17 doubles Youran Xu (German Chinese SCC Düsseldorf); Youri Schwarz in U17 singles and doubles Ivan Dzhus (1. BV Mülheim) as well Henri Saur in the U19 singles.
The Weseler U11 talents Pauline Jung (l.) and Johanna Benner won bronze in doubles at the West German Championships.
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On her way to the U15 runner-up title in Mülheim, Lea Diehl easily eliminated the first-seeded player in two sets in the semifinals and won the U17 doubles with her club colleague Pauline Hagemann also silver. Youri Schwarz and Ivan Dzhus only dropped one set on their way to the WDM title. Henri Saur, who like Schwarz is already a player for the Wesel regional league team, narrowly lost the semi-final in three sets. “We are particularly pleased about our youngest medal winners in the U11 girls’ singles, Pauline Jung and Johanna Bennerwho took bronze,” said Ruth.
Further Weseler WDM results including quarter-final participation: Lea Diehl: 5th place in mixed doubles U15 with Konstantin Du Bois (SV Bergfried Leverkusen); Henri Saur: 5th place JD with Mika Dörschel (TV Refrath); Rosalie Schwarz: 5th place MD with Kailynn Huang (TV Refrath); 9th place ME U15; Elin Diehl: 9th place ME U11, 9th place MD U13 with Ilvie Nierhof (Heimaterde Mülheim); Amy Grütter: 9th place DM U13 with Lilli Karter (VfB GW Mülheim), 17th place ME U13, Lilli Morlock: 9th place MD with Alina Neubauer (both BV Wesel), 17th place ME U15; Alina Neubauer: 9th place MD with Lilli Morlock (both BV Wesel); Pauline Jung: 9th place ME U11; Johanna Benner: 9th place ME U11; Pauline Hagemann: 17th place ME U17.
