Romania was in the fast lane today in Stark Arena at the Dunav Osiguranje European Youth Championships and managed to reach the quarterfinal of the Under 19 Boy’s Teams Event after quick three matches against Hungary. They will meet Slovakia tomorrow; Turkiye will meet Poland France will play against Croatia and Belgium will face Italy.
In Round of 16 Eduardo IONESCU Darius MOVILEANU and Iulian CHIRITA beat Hungary’s David SZANTOSI CHEN Yu Wei and Levente KREBS.
“We were ready to play long match against Hungary because they have two very good players. The opening match between IONESCU and SZANTOSI was very important and the victory gave us the big push ” said Iulian CHIRITA.
France beat England in another straight matches duel. Thibault PORET accounted for Felix THOMIS Alexis KOURAICHI continued in the same pace against Connor GREEN and Hugo DESCHAMPS sealed the match in the duel against Louis PRICE.
“It was important for me to win the opening match to take away the pressure from the team. We expected this win but at this stage of the Championships it is never too easy ” said PORET.
At the bottom side of the draw Poland proceeded to the quarters after victory over Czech Republic in straight matches. Milosz REDZIMSKI and Maciej KUBIK easily prevailed against Simon BELIK and Adam STALZER but after 2:0 Mateusz ZAELEWSKI faced great pressure from Radim MORAVEK. Radim managed to level but Mateusz withstood his spirited come back.
“It was great performance from whole team.Every match was very important and Milosz and Maciej played at very high level. I had a good start with 2:0; I played very good but then I started to make too much mistakes. I am happy than I won at the end ” said Mateusz ZAELEWSKI.
Belgium’s Adrien RASSENFOSSE Louis LAFFINEUR and Tom CLOSSET overcame Israel’s Itay AVIVI Tal ISRAELI and Eitay SHUSHAN 3:0.
“It is good that we managed to finish the match 3:0 and to save some energy because this is very long tournament and our goal is to play in the closing stages. We want to reach at least semi final in the teams event. Of course dream is the highest step at the medal rostrum but lets go match after match. I proud of the performance of my team and I hope for the best basic on what we showed so far in Belgrade ” said Adrien RASSENFOSSE.
Slovakia overcame Netherlands 3:1. Filip DELINCAK overcame kas VAN OOST Adam KLAJBER accounted for Gabrielius CAMARA whilst Barry BERBEN scored the only pint for Netherlands. In last match KLAJBER beat OOST.
“We are aiming the medal here and I hope we will reach the medal rostrum ” said KLAJBER.
Turkiye overcame Germany 3:1. Ugurcan DURSUN beat Andre BERTELSMEIER in the opening match. Hakan ISIK overcame Hannes HOERMANN and BERTELSMEIER. Vincent SENKBEIL scored the only point for Germany.
“We reached the best 8 but we are aiming for more. We hope we will continue to play good at this tournament ” said ISIK.
Croatia overcame Sweden 3:1. Borna PETEK and Ivor BAN wo0n two opening matches against David BJORKYARD and Max HEDBOM but Leo VEKIC lost his duel against Charlie WIDING. BAN beat BJORKYARD but he needed full five games again.
“It was not easy we had to fight in each duel very hard. It was open duel up until last moment ” said BAN.
Italy overcame Ukraine in five matches. Andrea PUPPO recorded two wins against Mykyta ZAVADA and Adrii GREBNIUK Tommaso GIOVANNETI beat ZAVADA whilst Nazar TRETIAK and GREBENIUK scored for Ukraine.
“Ukraine has a very strong team especially GREBENIUK. My match against him was very stressful. I started that match under pressure because we were 1:2 down ” said PUPPO.
In the Under 15 Boy’s Teams Event France overcame Germany in straight matches to reach the quarterfinal. They will meet Bulgaria. Bulgaria beat Greece previously. Israel will play against Hungary Sweden against Czech Republic and Romania will meet Ukraine.
In Round 16 three matches went full distance: Sweden vs. Austria Czech Republic vs. Spain and Ukraine vs. Slovakia.
