2024-10-05 08:01:19
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Georgi Glushkov, watched the victory of Stefani Stoeva in her first match of the main circuit of the Badminton World Cup, which is being held in Sofia. The Bulgarian eliminated Meline Zeizig from Germany with 21:7, 21:10 in 20 minutes and in the second round she faced Mariana Afonso (Portugal). This was announced by the press center of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
Before that, the leader in the women’s circuit Hristomira Popovska won against Madalena Fortunato (Portugal) with 21:9, 21:16 in 25 minutes, and her next opponent is Gulsu Vural (Turkey). Later today are the meetings of number 3 Gergana Pavlova, Mihaela Chepisheva and Tanya Ivanova, and Lili Radeva dropped out at the start.
In the men’s category, Ivan Rusev beat Patrick Zbinden (Switzerland) with 21:19, 21:18, Dimitar Yanakiev won against Charles Fuin (Belgium) with 21:13, 21:11, and Iliyan Stoinov eliminated Ibrahim Haktan Dogan (Turkey) with 21 :15, 21:18.
In the mixed doubles discipline, Peyo Boychinov and Tanya Ivanova reached the quarterfinals after achieving two consecutive victories. Their next opponents will be Michal Sovolewski and Joana Podedworny (Poland).