Winners of the second day of the 2018 Road to Buenos Aires 2018 YOG series – Africa are Serbia`s Sabina SURJAN and Iran`s Amin AHMADIAN
Serbia`s Sabina SURJAN and Iran`s Amin AHMADIAN won second knock-out tournaments held today March 25th in the Tunisian city of Rades as a part of the Road to Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games Series – Africa. They joined Azerbaijan`s YU Khinhang and Slovakia`s Tatiana KUKULKOVA first tournament`s winners.
Women`s Singles top seed SURJAN prevailed against Turkey`s Ozge YILMAZ in the semi-finals while Croatia`s Andrea PAVLOVIC no. 3 seed beat ZHANG Wanling. Both encounters took five sets each. The final clash was a reprise of the gold medal contest at the 2018 Tunisia Junior & Cadet Open held two days ago in the same place and again SURJAN won. This time in straight games.
Belgian player Laurens DEVOS lost to Amin AHMADIAN in the Men`s Singles semis. Singapore`s PANG Yew En Koen reached the ultimate stage second consecutive day but again was beaten. Yesterday he suffered at the hands of Azerbaijan`s YU Khinhang whilst tonight it was Iranian player.
Men`s Singles
Semi-finals
Amin AHMADIAN (IRI) – Laurens DEVOS (BEL) 4:2 (7:11 5:11 11:9 11:7 13:11 11:8)
PANG Yew En Koen (SGP) – Jeremy HAZIN (CAN) 4:1 (11:6 11:5 11:9 8:11 11:2)
Final
Amin AHMADIAN (IRI) – PANG Yew En Koen (SGP) 4:2 (4:11 11:5 6:11 11:7 11:9 14:12)
Women`s Singles
Semi-finals
Sabina SURJAN (SRB) – Ozge YILMAZ (TUR) 4:1 (11:8 11:8 11:8 11:13)
Andrea PAVLOVIC (CRO) – ZHANG Wanling (SGP) 4:1 (11:3 11:8 11:5 9:11 11:6)
Final
Sabina SURJAN (SRB) – Andrea PAVLOVIC (CRO) 4:0 (11:1 11:9 11:6 12:10)
Continental Tournaments – Qualifiers (as on Sunday 17th December)
Men
Africa: Youssef Abdel AZIZ (Egypt) Nathael HAMDOUN (Tunisia)
Asia: Tomokazu HARIMOTO (Japan) LIN Yun-Ju (Chinese Taipei) WANG Chuqin (China) CHO Daeseong (Korea)
Europe: Ioannis SGOUROPOULOS (Greece) Vladimir SIDORENKO (Russia) Medardas STANKIEVICIUS (Lithuania) Vladislav URDU (Moldova)
Latin America: Nicolas BURGOS (Chile) Guillerme TEODORO (Brazil)
North America: Kanak JHA (United States)
Oceania: Nathan XU (New Zealand)
Women
Africa: Esther ORIBAMISE (Nigeria) Marwa ALHODABY (Egypt)
Asia: Miu HIRANO (Japan) SUN Yingsha (China) JINNIPA Sawettabut (Thailand) SU Pei-Ling (Chinese Taipei)
Europe: Lucie GAUTHIER (France) Mariia TAILAKOVA (Russia) NING Jing (Azerbaijan) Nadezhda BOGDANOVA (Belarus)
Latin America: Adriana DIAZ (Puerto Rico) Bruna TAKAHASHI (Brazil)
North America: Amy WANG (United States)
Oceania: VONG Hui Ling (New Zealand)
Road to Buenos Series (as on Sunday 25th March)
Men
Europe: Bastian REMBERT (France) Cristian PLETEA (Romania)
Europe: YU Khinhang (Azerbaijan) Amin AHMADIAN (Iran)
Women
Europe: Andreea DRAGOMAN (Romania) LEE Ka Yee (Hong Kong)
Africa: Tatiana KUKULKOVA (Slovakia) Sabina SURJAN (Serbia)
