At the Euro-Africa Circuit Swedish Open in Helsingborg in the Women’s singles in round of last 16 KIM Song I from North Korea beat the champion of last Euro Africa tournament in Zagreb Szandra PERGEL of Hungary after a great performance by showing defensi, At the Euro-Africa Circuit Swedish Open in Helsingborg in the Women’s singles in round of last 16 KIM Song I from North Korea beat the champion of last Euro Africa tournament in Zagreb Szandra PERGEL of Hungary after a great performance by showing defensive play at its best. 4-2 was the final result. KIM, from Peongyang, has been training before the tournament for 3 weeks at the Werner SCHLAGER Academy in Vienna. “I’m very glad I win and I hope to win the tournament” says Kim and her coach. In next round she beat Natalya PROSVIRNINA of Spain. Favorized Georgina POTA of Hungary comfortably beat Alena DUBKOVA of Belarus 4:1. Polina MIKHAILOVA had a hard battle to fight down the only remaining Indian. She beat GATHAK 4:2. Margarita FETUKHINA won the all – Russian encounter against Maria BYKOVA, and the toughest match in the QF, with 4-3. In the Men’s singles quarterfinal ÅKERSTRÖM beat Mattias ÖVERSJÖ 4:1. It came as a surprise since OVERSJO won the last two encounters in the Swedish league. TÖRNKVIST overcame local hero ARVIDSSON in an epic battle 4:3 with the 11:-8 in 7th. In the semis TÖRNKVIST and ÅKERSTROM will face each other. Not for the first time…both representing the club of Vaxjo. Nordberg overcame SODERLUND 4:1 in the match between the two HAMPUS. “I played both good and clever I think. I had the feeling that I was in control all the time” said Hampus NORDBERG. ANDERSSON beats BRODD 4:2. After 2:2 ANDERSSON was clerly ahead in the last two sets. In Teams Event both finals gave full value to the crowd and both went to five games. In Women’s Belarus overcame India 3:2. Maria KUCHUK showed impressive performance and won her two singles. Surprisingly DUBKOVA concluded the day without victory, but her team mates managed to clinch the title for Belarus. That’s the sign of a strong team! Last and final match turned into a real thriller with KUCHUK winning with the closest of marigins, 11-9 in the fifth set. In Men’s Event Sweden A overcame Germany 3:2. The match went also to a decessive match. Benedikt DUDA is again unbeaten in an international team event. This time, he overcame both OVERSJO and ANDERSSON. However this wasn’t enough, Sweden clinched the title after a great team effort where every player won one match each. ANDERSSON finished the job by beating JOST 3:1. (by Linus MERNSTEN) Click here for further information Photo: KIM Song I from North Korea 

Two best European teams from last European Championships in Gdansk-Sopot and the last World Championships, held earlier this year in Dortmund, will meet on 14th July in Braunschweig (16h00 CET) in the JOOLA European Championships Qualifications 2012-2013.,

At the Euro-Africa Circuit Swedish Open in Helsingborg in the Women’s Singles Event opening round, in the morning matches there were one that particular caught the eye of the spectators: The match between the JEE Daeyoung from Korea and KIM Song I from th,

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At the Euro-Africa Circuit Swedish Open in Helsingborg host nation representatives made a good run in the opening stage of the Singles Event. In the Round of 16 tomorrow will play 10 Swedish players. In the round of 32 Hampus NORDBERG beat Borna KOVAC of , At the Euro-Africa Circuit Swedish Open in Helsingborg host nation representatives made a good run in the opening stage of the Singles Event. In the Round of 16 tomorrow will play 10 Swedish players. In the round of 32 Hampus NORDBERG beat Borna KOVAC of Croatia in an epic battle. The match concluded with the score 13:11 in the 7th game after NORDBERG was 7:10 down. “It was a really hard match and it felt all the time that it was 50-50 who is going to win. It was all about the short game and we both needed to have quality there to win points. Right now I am just happy that I somehow managed to succeed” said Hampus NORDBERG. Antony TRAN beat surprisingly comfortable Bejamin ROGIERS of Belgium 4:0 and now will face Mattias OVERSJO in the round of 16. Local hero Robert ERIKSSON (playing for the club in BTK Rekord in Helsingborg) upset the rankings by beating seeded Tomas LEBRETON of France 4-2. In the next round he will face club compatriot Simon ARVIDSSON, who also succeeded against another seed Sanil SHETTY of India 4:0 after a convincing performance. Hampus SÖDERLUND took his revenge against Benedikt DUDA, Germany 4-1. DUDA won against SODERLUND in the team event. In Men’s team semi final Sweden A overcame India 3:0, Germany beat Norway A 3-0. In Women’s teams final will play India who overcame Sweden 3:1 and Belarus after success over Germany in straight matches. It were quite comfortable matches for the winning teams. Shimini KUMARESAN showing her Indian team the way to a 3-1 victory. (by Linus MERNSTEN) Click here for further information Photo: Hampus NORDBERG

In the semifinal of the Men’s Team’s Event at the Euro-Africa Circuit Swedish Open in Helsingborg Norway will meet Germany, whilst Sweden will play against India. In Women’s Team’s Event Belarus will play against Germany whilst on the lower half of the dr,