Day three: Day three was always going to be a hard day. The players, already tired and a little stiff from the Monday activities had to endure a 32 players individual tournament! This meant that by the end of the day most would have played a minimum of 5 matches and some of them even more. We were not sure how the Danish players were going to hold up during the day as they had already played a lot more squash than the Germans the day before and this could possibly give the physical advantage to team Germany. There was some outstanding matches throughout the day and of particular note was the performances of Theis Houlberg, who managed to defeat Hendrik Vössing in a superb match which was eventually decided by two points in the final set. Magnus Nørtoft Laursen, also produced a superb performance to defeat Jens Christian Wegeberg. In what was a fiercely competitive match. Magnus also produced one of the games of the day to defeat Marcel Keßler and this earned him a well deserved place in the semi final. Meanwhile the girls were putting in some wonderful performances against the boys and there were some fantastic performances from Camilla Kejlberg Nielsen, Sofie Mygland, Simone Dissing, and Elisabeth Zornig throughout the day. Off particular note was the performance throughout the day of Julius Fuglsang, who simply never stopped running all day and never gave up. Julius managed to pull off some unexpected wins, much to the total shock of his older opponents and he earned the respect of the German players and coaches for his effort. The tournament was eventually won by Hendrik Vössing, with Tobias Wächter second, and Theis houlberg and Magnus Nørtoft Laursen a very commendable third and fourth respectively. Credit must be given to all of the played though, as they all played the day with great enthusiasm and did their absolute best. The evening took the form of a visit to the Lippesee, which is a large lake just outside of Paderborn. Here everyone took part in various activities such as volleyball and football, as well as a wonderful grill and many thanks to Markus his team who shared the cooking and provided everyone with a superb meal. The event of the evening was a football match which we decided would be the European championship final between Germany and Denmark! The game was very hard fought but eventually Denmark proved to be a little too strong winning the match 3-1 with goals from Lew Marsden, Jonas Søndergaard Sorensen and Thies Houlberg. So ended a very hard day two and the players were all feeling the effects of two long days of activity.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 08:24:52 +0000
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