Well the final in MS was definetely the best match in the whole tournament, i watched on the tv, Gade and Jonassen played very well both, but when Gade is playing his best Jonassen cant beat him. Gade was very happy about the victory and he almost cried when Jonassen hit the ball out. Gade said to danish tv that he know looks at Thomas cup and then going to get the olympic gold medal.
(Preservation project ) Gade, Camilla Martin enter quarters GLASGOW, April 27 (AFP) — World number one Peter Gade was made to battle hard in defence of his European men’s singles title here yesterday, needing to save four game points to avoid going the full distance against Dicky Palyama, the former European junior champion from the Netherlands, before reaching the quarterfinals. Gade found it harder than usual to control the shuttles and difficult to adapt to the difference between the two ends. But the champion was also ambushed by his young opponent’s enterprising attack and was slightly fortunate to finish him in straight games 15-5, 17-16. Palyama took advantage of Gade’s problems with the drift in the second game to advance to leads of 9-5 and 12-9. He arrived early to the net and played deftly when he got there, sometimes setting up chances to attack the resulting lifts. The titleholder made a run from 9-12 to 13-12 which looked likely to carry him to victory, and when he reached 14-14 the umpire incorrectly called match-point to the Dane. But in fact Palyama had opted for a three-point setting, and shortly came within a whisker of winning it. On his second game point, at 16-14, the Dutch player’s blocked lift sailed just a couple of inches wide. Gade next plays Tomas Johansson, runner-up six years ago in Den Bosch, but only two and not three of his fellow Danes were able to join him in the last eight. Fourth-seeded Anders Boesen, who narrowly survived the previous day against German Oliver Pongratz, failed to pull it off again against Martin Hagberg of Sweden. The four points which Hagberg took from 11-11 to win the first game proved crucial, because when Boesen made his second comeback in two days he did not have enough energy to complete the job, fading to a 11-15, 15-7, 8-15 defeat. However, Kenneth Jonassen and Poul-Erik Hoyer made it a Danish trio in the last eight, with the Olympic champion Hoyer looking particularly well-placed for progress further in his first tournament in two months. Gade’s girl-friend, Camilla Martin, also reached the last eight in defence of the European title, next unseeded Dutch Lonneke Janssen, who saved a match point at 10-10 in the second game against a tiring seventh seed, Margit Borg, and ran out a 1-11, 11-10, 11-6 winner against the Swede. Three Danes similarly reached the quarterfinals of the women’s singles, with Mette Sorensen and Mette Pedersen making untroubled progress. Meanwhile, England’s leading singles player Peter Knowles, who withdrew from the men’s singles on Tuesday citing a pulled gluteal muscle, has been omitted from his country’s team for the Thomas Cup world team finals in Kuala Lumpur in two weeks time (May 11-16). Knowles claimed that he had been punished for his withdrawal on Tuesday — one day after having qualified for the Olympic Games — but England manager Finn Traerup phrased it differently. “He has had far too many injuries over a long period of time and we have decided not to take him for that reason,” Traerup said. “We have taken this action in response to what happened.” http://anonym.to/?http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000428/sports.htm#10
Gade enters semis GLASGOW, April 28 (Reuters) — World number one Peter Gade surprisingly dropped a game yesterday before claiming his European badminton semifinals place with a 15-1, 11-15, 15-5 success over Sweden’s Tomas Johansson.Top seed, Gade, the European titleholder, seemed set to sweep through but Johansson had other ideas and his heavy, steep smashing unsettled the talented Dane on several occasions during the second game. But in the decider, Gade rapidly regained his concentration, raced into a 5-0 lead and never looked back. Gade’s compatriot, Olympic champion Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen, posted an emphatic 15-1 15-2 quarterfinal victory over unseeded German Jens Roch and, at the age of 34, appears as if he can still entertain hopes of a stout defence of his title at the Sydney Games. Hoyer-Larsen sat out last month’s All-England Championships to be with his sick wife but he remains in the top three in the world rankings and a seasoned campaigner. While Denmark celebrated the safe passage of their big guns, there was good news for Wales, not normally noted as a force in badminton, as they continued to upstage hosts Scotland and neighbours England. Richard Vaughan reached the last four of the men’s event with a battling 15-13, 15-13 victory over Sweden’s Martin Hagberg, while in the women’s quarterfinals, Commonwealth champion Kelly Morgan brushed aside fifth seed Judith Meulendijks of the Netherlands 11-1, 11-1. Both Welsh players have booked their Olympics berth, with Vaughan having risen to world No 18 and Morgan, who has been a top 10 player, at 15 semifinal against Gade, however, will pose Vaughan with a searching test. Morgan, who has bounced back after a disappointing show at the All-England tournament, also faces a stiff examination in the semifinals where she meets top seed Camilla Martin, Gade’s fiancee and world No two. http://anonym.to/?http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000429/sports.htm#10
Gade, Martin lift European titles GLASGOW, April 30 (AFP) — Peter Gade and Camilla Martin, badminton’s famous love couple, won European gold medals on the same day for the second successive time when they defended their singles titles with very contrasting performances. Martin, the world champion, had to struggle with herself and her mental and physical tiredness, as well as her Swedish opponent, Marina Andrievskaya, before becoming the first player to win the European women’s singles three times. Gade, the world number one, who was scheduled to play simultaneously and alongside his girl-friend, gave a far fresher performance than her, containing far too much speedy court coverage and too many sudden rapier attacks for the Olympic champion, Poul-Erik Hoyer. Gade’s winning margin was 15-5, 15-11, and Hoyer, who had not competed for two months during which his wife had been seriously ill, clearly has some way to go before regaining full match fitness. Martin’s scoreline was 13-10, 11-3, and it might have been closer still had not Andrievsakaya unaccountably let drop a high clear into court on her game point at 10-9. But for that the contest might have developed into a dangerously long drawn out affair. “I’m glad it’s all over — I had to yell at myself at times,” said Martin, who also indulged in slapping, cursing and head-shaking to keep her tired body working. By contrast Gade might well have won more easily had he not started to miss with a few acrobatic jump smashes, allowing his Danish compatriot to climb back from 4-11 to 9-12. But he was generous to the colleague with whom he will be trying to help Denmark win the Thomas Cup world team title for the first time in Kuala Lumpur next month from May 11 to 21. “In the first game I played about as well as I can,” Gade said. “But it was my hardest match, because we know each other so well.” The success gave Denmark, which won the team event on Monday their fourth European title out of four, because in the day’s opening encounter Michael Sogaard and Rikke Olsen won the mixed doubles. Later Denmark came within just a few points of winning all six titles — something which has been achieved only once before in the 32-year history of the European championships. They managed five when Jens Eriksen and Jesper Larsen ended the hopes of Sweden’s Par-Gunnar Jonsson in his last Europeans, beating the 36-year-old and his partner Peter Axelsson in straight games. http://anonym.to/?http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000501/sports.htm#11
