Saturday evening the first real badminton confrontation of the season was scheduled: Duinwijck versus Amersfoort. After a number of thrilling matches it was concluded with a 6-2 win in favour of Duinwijck.
For the first time this season our team was complete so we could make the best possible set up. This meant that Koen Ridder and I took the men’s doubles for our account. In both games we never lost control and we won straight from Joeli Residay and Jelle Maas. The ladies doubles was lost in three games and that put the intermediate score on 1-1.
Surprisingly the score in the men’s singles was shared. Erik Meijs lost in two close games from Edwin Ekiring but Jerry Natenstedt played the match of his life versus Nick Fransman. Sitting alongside the court I could see Jerry coming into the right flow which he kept until the end of the match. It was nice to see how, also with a little bit of luck, everything went right. So after these 2 confrontations the intermediate score still was a draw. 2-2.
For some reason Jerry’s unexpected win gave us an enormous boost because all of the remaining matches, both ladies singles as well as the two mixed doubles, were won. In my mixed doubles with Eva Krab we had a difficult start. We lost the first game but in the next two games we never got in danger anymore. In our match last week in Almere we laid the foundations for the rest of the season and I am very happy with it. Also Koen Ridder and Karina de Wit put down a great performance and Amersfoort did not stand a chance. An unexpected but very good 6-2 final score put us on the lead again closely followed by van Zundert Velo.
The next league match is versus Roosteren in Limburg next Saturday. And the coming week we’ll go on preparing ourselves for the Dutch Open which is 10 days from now. Stay tuned for more news!!
Tags: Amersfoort, badminton, Duinwijck, Dutch Open, jorrit de ruiter