Women's tournament: a Latvian surprise team and a 3-set win for
the Germans Mersmann / Schneider. Men's tournament: another
victory for Germany. Also Holler / Schröder win tight in 3 sets.
Super-tempered weather gods for Vaduz tournament 2015th
In the ladies' final, it came again to a duel from the 3rd round: Mersmann /
Schneider met again the Latvian women and fought with them a great fight: They
won in three sets (18:21, 21:18, 15:11) , 3rd place went to the Austrian Nr. 1 of the
tournament Schützenhöfer / Plesiutschnig. Also in the men’s final it came to a
replay from the 3rd round. Again won Holler / Schröder against Caminati / Rossi,
however, extremely tightly in 3 sets. The women’s finals and also the big final of
the men were played in front of full house with more than 1,000 spectators.
Overall, this year almost 10,000 spectators came to the Städtle.
High class men’s finals in 3 sets
Both in the match for 3rd place as well as the big final only a few points made
the difference between victory and defeat. At the poles Kosiak / Rudol blocker
Rudol wasn’t that sure a few times in the reception, resulting in too weak attacks.
In the first set, this meant the 23:21 for the Belgians Koekelkoren / van Walle. In
the sets 2 and 3, the Poles were able to turn the game and won the 3rd 15:13.
Rudol summed up as follows: "We are very happy with this 3rd place. We had to
fight through the loser draw and had to play a lot of games. Maybe we were a
little more experienced, but it was a very, very close game. "
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The final match between Caminati / Rossi, the Italian No. 2 of the tournament and
Holler / Schröder (no. 14) was very similar: Few points decided about the victory:
16-21, 21-19, 13-15. Tim Holler, who was often set under pressure by services,
scored often with line-lobs. Tim Holler then said also that in such a tight match
also luck may have decided on a few balls. "We have known that we could not go
through as easy as in round 3. We are very happy that we could win the
tournament. Jonas (Schroeder, editor's note) was for half a year abroad, our game
fits more and more together and we keep on improving." Even Caminati / Rossi
saw the game this way: "We were glad that we played much better than in round
3. Of course we are disappointed that we didn’t win. A few balls decide at this
level the games."
The men’s semi-finals
The Germans Holler / Schröder were also too strong for the U23 World Champion
of the last year Kosiak / Rudol from Poland: 22-20, 18-21, 15-13. In a high-class,
balanced semi-final, no team was able to go in the lead in one of the sets. Thus,
an open fight developed, thrilling in every moment of the game. The Germans
won the game because their block / defense system at the end worked a little bit
better. Jonas Schroeder dug repeatedly incredible balls out, Tim Holler showed his
potential in the block.
The Italians Caminati / Rossi sat through a bit clearer earlier in the first semi-final
against the Belgians Koekelkoren / van Walle. The score was 2:1 too, 21-16, 22-24,
8-15, the Italians had after two absolutely balanced sets some advantages in the
third set.
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Philippe Schürmann, president of the organizing comittee, is very happy about
the tournament: "We have chosen this spring, despite the death of my brother
and former president of the tournament, to continue. Thanks to the partners
Accurata and Erlebe Vaduz it was possible again to organize the tournament. But
the thanks belongs equally to all other partners and 150 volunteers. The
tournament has given us as every year a lot of joy. We have been rewarded with
two great finals. With the weather we were also very lucky.
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