It was day 2 of the Indian Open Racketlon 2025 and day 1 of the World Tour Finals, where we’ve seen some fantastic racketlon matches.
The men’s A final will be a battle between Leigh Sands and Jonathan Cassier, after they got through in two contrasting matches. Leigh took on no 2 seed Pat Moran from the United States, and got through a big battle taking it +3 (10-21 21-15 21-15 21-19). After the match Leigh said he won more points than he thought in table tennis, and he got back after being 19-17 down, reading an underarm serve, and finally putting the ball away to take the match 21-19 after a classic Racketlon match.
His opponent is Jonathan Cassier, who beat top seed Koubaa +13 in the semi-finals and Guidi Weijel +30 (21-4 21-14 21-15) in the semi finals.
The women’s elite final will be an all Indian affair between top seed Charvi Singh and Riya Arolkar, who beat no 2 seed Jhawar by + 26(17-21 21-0 21-12).
Stephanie Chung and Leon Griffiths claimed their first title together in the elite mixed category, getting the better of Malte Thyregod and Stine Jacobsen by +16 (21-11 16-21 21-13 9-6).
The men’s World Tour Final day started off with Leon Griffiths taking on Leon Sam in their first match of the day. Griffiths was the strong favourite and took the match 11-5 11-5 11-6 10-11. The men are playing their round robin matches in the exciting sprint format, and it’s proven again to be very entertaining.
Bastian Böhm survived a big battle against Leon Sam, coming through in a tight match winning the gummi-arm in tennis. He then went on to beat Julien Castel to join Leon Griffiths in the semi-finals tomorrow.
Malte Thyregod put in some strong performances in group A, taking wins over Nicolas Lenggenhager 10-11 11-10 9-11 5-11 and Joerg Kanonenberg 11-5 11-1 5-11 8-11. He joins Koen Hageraats in the semi-final tomorrow where he will take on Leon Griffiths.
The women played in the traditional scoring format, with Holly Ranson claiming her first win over Anna-Klara Ahlmer taking it 19-21 21-11 21-13 6-9. She also beat Adeline Kilchenmann and finished top of group A. Ahlmer beat Kilchenman and is also through to the semi-finals.
Pauline Cavé continued her good form this season, winning both group matches against Stine Jacobsen 21-17 9-21 21-12 21-10 and Stephanie Chung 21-15 21-5 21-8. Jacobsen won her match against Chung after a massive table tennis battle, taking it 25-27 21-2 21-10 21-15.
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