Badminton German Open 2024: Results & Highlights | Cloppenburg

Cloppenburg, Nienburg. The sports hall in Cloppenburg was transformed into a true arena because the Lower Saxony Badminton Association had once again made enormous efforts to ensure perfect conditions at the 74th German Championships and to give the event a worthy setting. It was played on pitch mats, an electronic scoreboard and technical officials and referees were used in every game.

The two junior players from the Nienburg district, Cattareya Paschke and Luna Marquordt, were able to compete against this backdrop. Nienburg’s Cattareya Paschke qualified in the women’s singles, and Binner’s Luna Marquordt, who plays for Harkenbleck, was allowed to compete in all three disciplines.

The tournament started with the mixed competition. Here Marquordt competed with her standard partner Vin Assmus (Metjendorf). The two met the U19 mixed Ohliger/Hermel (Refrath) in round one. Despite a good performance, Marquordt/Assmus lost in two rounds.

Afterwards the women’s singles was on the program. Cattareya Paschke caught Annalena Diks, an experienced second division player, in the first round. In the first set, Paschke gained a slight lead until the set break, but after that nothing worked. “Cattareya has completely lost her rhythm in the game. She played powerfully and cheekily until the break, which was often rewarded with a direct win of a point – unfortunately after that not much went together,” summarized MTV trainer Sandra Reichstein, who was sitting behind the field as the association coach.

Marquordt’s first game was canceled because her opponent canceled at short notice. In the next round, Binner met Ella Neve (Bayern), who turned out to be a size too big. With 8:21 and 7:21, Marquordt clearly lost out – her opponent ultimately reached the quarter-finals.

In the doubles alongside Lara-Sophie Dreessen (Hamburg), Marquordt had to compete against Annalena Diks/Friederike Henze (Bochum). In the first set, Marquordt/Dreessen kept the game open for a long time, but when the score was 17:17, the two made four slight errors and lost 17:21. Reichstein: “In the second round, Luna and Lara were not able to implement the match plan discussed as expected. The two wanted to do too well and failed at the opening of the game.” The second set ended with 12:21 and the end was sealed.

In addition to the playing fields, there were a number of attractions for spectators at the DM: large sales stands with many special offers invited people to shop, and there was a raffle with great prizes. For the Nienburg young delegation, hunting for autographs and “dusting” T-shirts of their favorites were very important.

Reichstein concluded: “Our little girls almost besieged one or two top players to get one of the coveted shirts. But the national players behaved well, gave autographs, stood ready for photos and willingly handed over older T-shirts with their names on them. Of course, that was really well received by my little ones.”

DH