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Continuing the fight to defend the title won last year, the only Latvian duo in the first qualifying round of the European Championship with a score of 2:0 (21:18, 21:9) surpassed the Austrian host sisters Dorina and Ronja Klinger. , according to the organizers. However, in the fight for reaching the quarterfinals, the Latvian couple lost to the Spaniards Daniela Mendoza and Tania Moreno with a score of 0:2 (19:21, 14:21).
The seventh seeded Graudina and Samoylova previously lost to the Ukrainians Valentina Davydova/Evgenia Baeva (0:2) in a group match, but in the decisive fight for a place in the qualifying tournament they defeated the Polish duo Yagoda Grushchinska/Alexandra Vakhovich (2:0).
At the European Championships, 32 duets played a round-robin tournament in eight groups. The group winners immediately advanced to the 1/8 finals, and the runners-up will start in the knockout tournament from the first round.
Graudina and Samoilova claimed the title of European champion for the third time, as they won not only a year ago in Munich, but also in 2019 in Moscow.
In the men’s standings, this time Latvia is not represented in the continental championship. The European Championship will end in the Austrian capital on Sunday, August 6th.
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