Padel: Austria's women create a sensation
At the European qualification tournament for the WORLD PADEL Championships Dubai 2022 this weekend in Derby, an Austrian women's national team competed internationally for the first time. In a group with Great Britain (currently No. 16 in the padel world rankings) and Lithuania, the lot presented the Baltic women as the first challenge.
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last edit: Oct 03, 2022, 10:28 pm
Public transport supervisor Octavio Santana (who also managed the preparation) nominated the couples Alexandra Pils/Elea Bechtler, Barbara Prenner/Anna Schmid and Rebeca Fernandez Niederacher/Sabrina Urban. The start was extremely bad, the pairing Pils/Bechtler (also handicapped by knee problems) lost the game against the strong Lithuanians. So Prenner/Schmid were under a lot of pressure in the top game against Ieva Ceilutkaite/Aukse Maciulaityte. After a tie, the third set had to decide.
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Here the Austrians quickly fell behind by 1:4, then showed extreme fighting spirit and won the deciding set with loud support from their teammates and the men's national team 7:5. So it was up to Fernandez Niederacher/Urban to fix the win against Ruta Balalyte/Kristina Matvijenko. What the two also mastered, they won 6:1, 6:1 in 35 minutes and secured the 2:1 victory over the Lithuanians with great cheering.
Thus, the national team was able to make the first appearance in an official international team competition victorious.