29 September, 2024
Leona Lee reached the ultimate of the Croatian Worldwide 2024 after a wonderful week in Samobor.
The 19-year-old has been in good kind, with a quarter-final look in Slovenia within the Future Sequence earlier this month.
She loved an excellent run in Croatia, getting all the way in which to the ultimate earlier than dropping to Indian rising star Raksha Kandasamy.
Lee didn’t drop a set in her first three matches, getting the higher of Tunde Takacs of Hungary, Katrin Neudolt from Austria after which Serbia’s Marija Sudimac within the quarter-finals.
The No.4 seed then needed to battle in her semi-final, coming by means of 21-10 14-21 21-10 in opposition to Julie Franconville of Switzerland. That clinched a spot within the remaining, however Kandasamy proved too sturdy, profitable 21-9 21-5.
Elsewhere in Croatia, Nadeem Dalvi made it to the quarter-finals within the males’s singles, beating compatriot Sid Palakkal in his opening match earlier than a straight-sets win over Romeo Makboul.
His run got here to an finish after a battling defeat to Belgium’s Charles Fouyn, crushed 21-16 10-21 21-9.
Robin Harper and Harry Wakefield additionally made it to the quarter-finals within the males’s doubles, beating Bulgarian duo Stanimir Terziev and Krasimir Todorov of their opening match.
They have been then crushed by French pair Timeo Bourgin and Orphe Queton-Bouissou 21-19 21-16 to overlook out on a spot within the final 4.
