27 October, 2024
Estelle Van Leeuwen and Callum Hemming triumphed within the last of the combined doubles on the Dutch Open on a busy Sunday for English shuttlers.
Van Leeuwen had earlier been in girls’s doubles last motion alongside Chloe Birch, and bounced again from the frustration of lacking her first likelihood of a title by taking her second.
She and Hemming got here from a sport all the way down to beat residence pair Robin Tabeling and Selena Piek 17-21 21-15 22-20 to take the title.
It was their second successive come-from-behind victory, having fought again towards Germany’s Malik Bourakkadi and Leona Michalski within the semi-finals.
They missed the prospect to tackle Ethan Van Leeuwen and Birch within the quarter-finals, with the opposite English pair overwhelmed within the spherical of 16.
Birch linked up with each Van Leeuwen siblings, and virtually claimed girls’s doubles success with Estelle because the pair made all of it the way in which to the ultimate.
They fought again from a set all the way down to beat Canadian pair Jackie Dent and Crystal Lai within the quarter-finals earlier than a convincing 21-6 21-10 win over Julia Meyer and Michalski within the final 4.
However they may not discover a method by way of within the last, overwhelmed in straight units, 21-15 21-18 by Bulgaria’s Gabriela and Stefani Stoeva, who had additionally overwhelmed Abbygael Harris and Lizzie Tolman on the quarter-final stage.
Like Birch, Hemming additionally performed alongside each Van Leeuwen siblings, reaching the semi-final of the lads’s doubles with Ethan. Their run was ended by Mael Cattoen and Lucas Renoir, 21-16 10-21 21-18 because the French pair edged a decent last set.
That got here after Cattoen and Renoir beat Zach Russ and Jeppe Soeby within the quarter-finals, whereas Rory Easton and Alex Inexperienced additionally misplaced within the final eight.
Final however not least, Leona Lee gained her opening match towards Samanta Golubickaite 20-22 21-16 21-13 earlier than going out within the final 16 to Spain’s Clara Azurmendi.