18 November, 2024
Callum Hemming and Estelle Van Leeuwen proved the cream of a proficient Badminton England crop after rising victorious within the blended doubles ultimate of the AIG VICTOR Irish Open 2024.
In a rematch of final 12 months’s semi-final, the duo got here from a sport right down to take the following two in opposition to Denmark’s Rasmus Espersen and Amalie Cecilie Kudsk, profitable the matchup 19-21 21-18 21-14.
The pair marched to the quarterfinals in skilled vogue, sweeping apart the Danish duo of Calvin Lundsgaard and Signe Schulz 21-12 21-18.
A 21-14 21-19 victory over Germany’s Jones Ralfy Jansen and Thuc Phuong Nguyen secured their place within the ultimate earlier than triumph within the ultimate over Espersen and Kudsk.
Hemming and Van Leeuwen each had an opportunity to make it double enjoyment of Eire however fell brief within the semi-final and ultimate of the lads’s doubles and girls’s doubles respectively.
Taking part in alongside Chloe Birch, Van Leeuwen reached the ultimate of the ladies’s doubles, solely to face defeat by the hands of one other Danish pair, Natasja P. Anthonisen and Maiken Fruergaard 19-21 19-21.
Anthonisen and Fruergaard had beforehand overcame Lisa Curtin and Wales’ Saffron Morris within the spherical of 32 en path to triumph.
Hemming in the meantime, booked his ticket to the semi finals of the lads’s doubles alongside Ethan Van Leeuwen, defeating compatriots Chern Yue Chua and Koon Fung Kelvin Ho earlier than being knocked out by Scotland’s Christopher and Matthew Grimley 15-21 21-18 16-21.
On the opposite facet of the bracket, Oliver Butler and Samuel Jones matched Hemming and Van Leeuwen in securing their place within the semi-finals, solely to be overcome by Denmark’s William Kryger Boe and Christian Faust Kjær 14-21 11-21.
Partnered with Sian Kelly, Butler additionally competed within the blended doubles, reaching the spherical of 32 earlier than a hard-fought loss to a different Danish pair, Lundsgaard and Schulz 19-21 16-21.
It was an analogous story for Jones, who, alongside Annie Lado, couldn’t get previous Alexander Dunn and Julie Macpherson within the spherical of 32.
Within the ladies’s doubles, the spherical of 16 noticed Kelly and Lado battle in opposition to Abbygael Harris and Lizzie Tolman in all-English affair, although they have been overwhelmed 10-21 11-21.
Harris and Tolman would go on to succeed in the quarter-final, the place their progress within the competitors was checked by Debora Jille and Sara Thygesen Jille.
Over within the males’s doubles, Scott Carter and Muhammad Osman noticed their run within the match ended within the spherical of 32 by the Czech Republic’s Jiří and Ondřej Král.
Harry Huang and Ethan Rose each fell in the identical stage of the lads’s singles, whereas Jamie Pearcy, Adam Shepherd and Hugo Jardim confronted defeat within the qualification spherical of 64.
Elsewhere within the males’s singles, the qualification spherical of 16 proved too steep a hurdle for Heng Lin Ngan and Rohan Thool.
