ENGLAND'S HALL UPSET BY SWEDE IN EURO QUARTERFINALS

April 18, 1996 (D.Shuttlenws) - A tired and sick Darren Hall of England
was upset late today by Jesper Olsson of Sweden in a men's singles
quarterfinals match at the European badminton championships in Herning,
Denmark.

Hall went down to the Swedish player in three games, with Hall taking
the first 15-9 and then running out of steam to lose the second and
third games 5-15 12-15.

Hall, who has been nursing a sore throat, was also fatigued from an
earlier match with Chris Bruil of the Netherlands. Bruil extended the
English player to three tough games and actually served for the match
twice in the second.

The other men's singles quarterfinals went according to form with
top-seed Poul-Erik Hoyer-Larsen of Denmark beating Swede Jens Olsson
15-11 15-10 to set up a semifinal encounter with Jesper Olsson, Jens'
younger brother.

Second-seed Peter Rasmussen of Denmark beat 5/8-seed Peter Knowles
of England 15-7 15-11, and 3/4-seed Jeroen van Dijk defeated Daniel
Eriksson of Sweden 15-5 15-7.

In women's singles quarterfinal action, top-seed Camilla Martin
continued to steamroll her way through the women's field with a
whitewashing of German Stefanie Muller 11-0 11-0.

With top European women's singles player Lim Xiao Qing of Sweden absent
from the tournament with a knee injury and with second-seed Catrine
Bengtsson, also of Sweden, being upset earlier by a Polish player,
the way seems clear to Martin's taking the European championship.

Her semifinal opponent will be the Swedish-Ugandan Christine Magnusson
who qualified for a final four spot with a difficult win over Mette
Sorensen of Denmark 12-10 3-11 11-5.

In the team competition finals on Monday, Magnusson was humbled by
Martin and only managed to score three points in their two-game
match.

The other women's singles semifinal will be contested by 3/4-seed
Marina Yakusheva of Russia and 5/8-seed Anne Sondergaard of Denmark.

Yakusheva defeated Mette Pedersen of Denmark 11-6 11-5 in her
quarterfinal match while Sondergaard won over the improved Katarzyna
Krasowska of Poland in a closely fought encounter.

Krasowska, the upset winner over second-seed Catrine Bengtsson, seemed
on her way to another upset as she took the first game 11-9. The second
game was contested as tightly as the first before Sondergaard prevailed
at 11-9. In the third game, Sondergaard benefitted from the five-minute
rest and advice from the Danish coaches as she closed out the Polish
player 11-4.

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