4 November 2023
Estelle van Leeuwen and Callum Hemming reached the quarter-finals of a Tremendous 300 occasion for the primary time in a breakthrough efficiency on the HYLO Open.
Van Leeuwen and Hemming claimed a landmark win over compatriots Greg and Jenny Mairs, prevailing 21-14 18-21 21-13 to make their maiden look within the combined doubles final eight at a BWF World Tour occasion.
They got here by way of a tricky first-round take a look at towards Patrick Scheiel and Franziska Volkmann of Germany, going all the way in which to 24-22 within the opening sport and holding their nerve to win in three video games.
Indonesia’s Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto and Lisa Ayu Kusumawati proved an excessive amount of within the quarters because the English pair went down 21-14 21-12 however might nonetheless replicate on a effective week’s work in Saarbrucken.
Ben Lane and Sean Vendy continued their momentum with two males’s doubles wins, together with a first-round win in one other home tussle with Hemming and Ethan van Leeuwen.
Within the quarter-finals, they received the primary sport 21-17 towards China’s Liu Yu Chen and Ou Xuan Yi.
However the second seeds, who beat Lane and Vendy 3 times early within the 12 months together with on the YONEX All England Open, got here roaring again to prevail 21-17 21-18.
Rory Easton and Zach Russ got here inside a whisker of a giant win, getting their noses in entrance towards Germany’s Jones Ralfy Jansen and Kenneth Neumann, ultimately falling 18-21 21-14 21-19.
In ladies’s doubles, Lizzie Tolman and Estelle van Leeuwen competed effectively in a 22-20 21-19 loss to sturdy French pair Margot Lambert and Anne Tran.
Abbygael Harris and Annie Lado have been additionally within the ladies’s doubles draw, defeated 21-17 21-15 by Paula Lynn Cao Hok and Lauren Lam of the USA.
There was a disappointing spherical one loss for Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith who have been effectively overwhelmed by Hong Kong’s Tang Chun Man and Tse Ying Suet, bettering within the second sport however taking place 21-11 21-19.
