Blair and Wallwork take Dutch title
12th November 2006Sunday, FINAL
Robert Blair and Jenny Wallwork won their first title together Sunday when they won the mixed doubles at the Big Boss Dutch Open in Den Bosch.
Blair and Wallwork beat Flandy Limpele and Vita Marissa 21-18 21-18.
Saturday, SEMI-FINALS
ROBERT BLAIR and Jenny Wallwork are one win away from their first title together after reaching the final of the mixed doubles at the Big Boss Dutch Open in Den Bosch.
The England pair beat Indonesia's Devin Lahardi & Yunita Tetty 21-19 21-16. In the final they will face another Indonesian pair Flandy Limpele & Vita Marissa, who beat France's Svetoslav Stoyanov & Elodie Eymard 21-18 21-15.
Flandy, of course, is no stranger to England's players having spent over a year in Milton Keynes sparring with the senior squad with his former men's partner Eng Hian.
In the men's doubles Robert Adcock and Robin Mikddleton's final hopes were dashed when they went down in straight games against another Indonesian pair, Hendra A Gunawan & Joko Riyadi, 21-8 21-14.
Saturday, SEMI-FINALS DAY
ROBIN MIDDLETON and Robert Adcock are through to today's men's doubles semi-finals of the Big Boss Dutch Open in Den Bosch.
And Robert Blair and Jenny Wallwork are through to the mixed doubles semi-finals - but they are the only England survivors in the mixed from the three pairs that went into the quarter-finals.
Kris Roebuck & Natalie Munt and Adcock & Sarah Bok both lost in straight games in their quarters.
Blair & Wallwork now play Devin Lahardi & Yunita Tetty of Indonesia. Flandy Limpele & Vita Marissa of Indonesia face France's Svetoslav Stoyanov & Elodie Eymard in the other semi-final.
But Adcock & Middleton had the satisfaction of beating Ashley Brehaut & Aji Sindoro Basuki 21-15 21-14 to avenge Roebuck & Ian Palethorpe's quarter-final defeat by the Aussies.
They now meet Hendra Gunawan & Joko Riyadi of Indonesia with Eng Hian & Rian Sukmawan of Indonesia face Tan Bin Shen & Ong Soon Hock in the other semi-final.
Men's doubles: Rian Sukmawan & Eng Hian (Indonesia) bt Rasmus Mangor
Andersen & Peter Buur Steffensen (Denmark) 21-14 21-12, Tan Bin Shen & Ong
Soon Hock (Malaysia) bt Thomas Tesche & Michael Fuchs (Gemany) 21-11 21-14, Hendra A Gunawan & Joko Riyadi (Indonesia) bt Vitalij Durkin & Alexandr Nikolaenko (Russia) 21-18 19-21 21-12, Robert Adcock & Robin Middleton (England) bt Ashley Brehaut & Aji Sindoro Basuki (Australia) 21-15 21-14
Mixed doubles: Flandy Limpele & Vita Marissa (Indonesia) bt Wouter Claes &
Nathalie Descamps (Belgium) 21-11 21-9, Svetoslav
Stoyanov & Elodie Eymard (France) bt Kristian Roebuck & Natalie Munt
(England) 21-14 21-12, Devin Lahardi & Yunita Tetty (Indonesia) bt Robert Adcock & Sara Bok (England) 21-16 21-9, Robert Blair & Jenny Wallwork (England) bt Sebastien Vincent & Julie Delaune (France) 21-13 21-16