SV Fortuna Regensburg has once again successfully held a major badminton event. The best young players from the federal states of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg and Saxony as well as a large number of guests, especially from the federal states of Hesse, Saarland and North Rhine-Westphalia, gathered in Regensburg for the southeast German school and youth ranking tournament.
246 participants fought for victory and placings in 568 games on 16 playing fields over two days for a total of 18 hours in the age groups U 13, U 15 in the sports hall of the Albertus-Magnus-Gymnasium and in the age groups U 17 and U 19 in the North sports hall on Isarstrasse.
Fortuna supported by other Regensburg clubs
A challenge that SV Fortuna Regensburg also overcame because it was actively supported by the other two Regensburg clubs, led by youth coach Barni Zambo from DJK Nord and department head Max Hofer from SC Regensburg.
As expected, the most successful Upper Palatinate participant was Marie Ullmann. The SC Bodenwöhr player, who trains in Bozen with top coach Csaba Hamza, not only managed to win the tournament in the U15 age group in the women’s singles against top seed Enna Tippmann, but also came second in the women’s doubles and third place in the mixed doubles.
Sophia Kurenkova from Freystadt, who trains at the state performance base in Nuremberg, also took first place in the U13 girls’ doubles, and also took second place in the girls’ singles in this age group.
Regensburg proud of Lukas Weigert
Aowei Su (DJK Nord) offered an excellent performance with second place in the boys’ singles U17 and fourth place in the doubles in this age group, while the DJK girls Annika Brix, Viola Diewald, Marie Lohneisen and Iskia Vikas did not achieve a top placement.
The hosts SV Fortuna Regensburg were also proud of Lukas Weigert, who took seventh place in doubles in his first ranking tournament at this level, but missed out on a much better placement if the opponent in the quarter-finals had not been the number one seeded pairing. He was not satisfied with 17th place in the men’s singles, although this game should be filed under “gaining experience”.
