The crowned champions in the singles event at the Europe Youth Series the 2023 Serbia Open in Dimitrovgrad are Montenegro’s Jaksa KRIVOKAPIC and Austria’s Nina SKERBINZ in the Under 15 Event and Kacper PIWOWAR of England and Lizett FAZEKAS of Hungary in the Under 13 event.
In the Under 15 event KRIVOKAPIC defeated his teammate from Montenegro’s team Stefan RADONJIC to clinch the gold. In the semifinals RADONJIC prevailed against Pavol KOKAVEC of Slovakia. In the other semifinal Alexandru POP of Romania was halted in the match against KRIVOKAPIC.
Austria’s Nina SKERBINZ overcame Sophie BARCSAI of Hungary in the ultimate stage of the Girls Under 15 Event. The bronze medals also went to Hungarian players. BARCSAI beat her teammate Rebeka NAGY while SKERBINZ prevailed against Johanna PETERY.
SKERBINZ and BARCSAI also met in the final of the Mixed Doubles Event and once again Austria’s player was more successful. In the final SKERBINZ and Thao NOWAK prevailed against the Hungarian-Danish combination of BARCSAI and Marcus Ahrenholt JENSEN. Semifinalists are Johan Engberg HAVSTEEN and Sally LOU and Niksa VESOVIC and Emina CERIC of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
In the Under 13 event Kacper PIWOWAR added another gold to his record. In the final of the singles he beat Malik SEVERINSEN of Denmark. Bronze medalists are Peadar SHERIDAN of Ireland and David CAPANDA of Serbia.
In the Girls category Lizett FAZEKAS also repeated her success from the team’s event. At the last hurdle she prevailed against Szonja SZOGI of Hungary. Swiss Akhyata PATRA and Hungary’s Szofia FEGYVER reached the semifinals.
Malik SEVERINSEN of Denmark and Szonja SZOGI of Hungary clinched the title in the Mixed Doubles Event. In the final they overcame Kacper PIWOWAR of England and Lizett FAZEKAS of Hungary. Serbia’s David CAPANDA and Teodora SUDZUM as well as Peadar SHERIDAN of Ireland and Enya HU of Switzerland are semifinalists.
The next Youth Series tournament is scheduled for October between the 11th and 15th in Plzen Czechia. After that in the same month Greece will welcome players in Loutraki between the 25th and 29th. The last tournament in the series will be played in Türkiye in Nevsehir in November.
