Finals

Finals day commenced with the mixed doubles, where both pairs started rather hesitantly with lots of unforced errors and substandard services. Newly formed pair Piek and De Ruiter recovered the best from their tentative beginning and made sure they were on top at the first break, leading 11-6. Especially the powerful smashes of De Ruiter were unanswered by his opponents most of the time.

The Singaporean pair stepped up their game and took a first-time lead in the match at 18-17. Their experience didn’t really help them, as they bargained away no fewer than 5 game points, whereas the Dutch duo only needed one, to eventually prevail 25-23.
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2012?
August 10, 2011

While we’re only just recovered from this year’s tournament, we’d like to give you a head’s up on what’s to come. You’ve read it here first: next year’s Yonex Belgian International will be taking place from September 13th to 16th, at the same location as this year: Sportoase in Leuven.

Photos and videos
August 10, 2011

Photos from Fons Vandervorst Photos from Jan Henckens hotos from Marc Phelan (Badminton Europe) Videos from Sporza via badmintoneurope.tv

Winners 2011
August 10, 2011

Day 3
August 10, 2011

Third day Yonex Belgian International The third day of the 7th Yonex Belgian International brought the spectators the quarter and semi finals. Yet another day full of surprises or would the remaining seeded players push through? The men´s singles semi final saw a magnificent start by Dutchman Eric Pang, beating Eric Leverdez in the first [...]

Second day
August 10, 2011

The first round of the men´s singles was a real battle field for the seeded players. First seeded Wacha had an off day and the same applies to 4th seeded Wong, who did not manage to defeat the German Nicolai Persson. For the young qualifier, this victory meant the biggest success in his career so [...]

Day 1 Qualifications
August 10, 2011

No big suprises at the first day of the Belgian Open. Only Roel Van Heukelom with his dutch partner could get through to the main table. All other belgians did their best but came too short. We are looking forward to tomorrow with some very interessting battles on the court.

Ready, set, go!
August 10, 2011

After 2 long days, Sportoase is ready for the tournament. We would like to thank our team of volunteers who worked very hard to get this done on time. The first match starts at 10:00, we hope to see you there!

Schedule
August 10, 2011

The start times for the first matches are available on toernooi.nl The schedule for the rest of the tournament is as follows: Thursday: Qualification rounds Friday: Main draw Saturday morning: quarter finals Saturday afternoon (16h30): semi finals Sunday (13h): Finals

Injury Joachim Persson
August 10, 2011

The tournament has not yet begon or we lost already a good candidate for the title Joachim Persson. Persson is injured and is not able to play at the Belgian International. More news later…