Day Four: FINALS                  Watch Replays

[1] Camille Serme (Fra) 3-0 [2] Line Hansen (Den)
                  12-10, 11-6, 11-6 (36m)
[1] Gregory Gaultier (Fra) 3-1 [2] Borja Golan (Esp)
                  11-3, 5-11, 11-7, 11-5 (50m)

3rd/4th: Raphael Kandra (Ger) 3-2 Gregoire Marche (Fra)
                  11-5, 10-12, 11-9, 10-12, 11-6 (81m)
3rd/4th: Coline Aumard (Fra) 3-0 Nele Gilis (Bel)
                  11-6, 11-7, 11-9 (39m)

Lights out in Bratislava as
Greg and Camille make it a hat-trick
Michael Khan reports

The lights literally went out on the last day in Bratislava. But unfortunately it was a short circuit causing the lights on the glass court to go out before the final matches. After some hectic work games started but with some delay.

First on today were the men and the day started with a surprise. German Raphael Kandra showed great determination and some spectacular dives and battled to win the bronze medal against higher seeded Greg Marche in a thrilling five-setter.

After that it was France all the way ...

The women's bronze went to Coline Aumard who beat young Belgian Nele Gilis in straight games.

The women's final was a repeat of last year. In spite of a good performance by Line Hansen the title went to Camille Serme again, making four EICC titles in a row for the recently-crowned British Open chjampion.

Eight time EICC champion Greg Gaultier was of course the favourite in his final, but Borja Golan was not prepared to give up easily. The Spaniard managed to take the second game but finally Greg secured his ninth title in four games.

That made it three years in a row that Greg and Camille have lifted the EICC trophies together.

And then the lights finally went out for this year in Bratislava.
 

DRAWS & RESULTS

Match Listing

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Men's Full Draw

Women's Full Draw

11/5, 11/3, 11/8

[5/8] Raphael Kandra

 11/3, 5/11, 11/7, 11/5 (50m)

[2] Borja Golan

11/7, 11/1, 11/4 (30m)

[2] Borja Golan

11/8, 11/5, 11/1 (25m)

[5/8] Nele Gilis

 12/10, 11/6, 11/6 (36m)

[2] Line Hansen

8/11, 11/9, 11/8, 12/10 (56m)

[2] Line Hansen

Day Three: Semi-Finals 

It will be the top seeds who contest the finals in Bratislava, with Camille Serme and Gregory Gaultier aiming for a third consecutive French double ...

[2] Line Hansen (Den) 3-1 [3/4] Coline Aumard (Fra)
             8-11, 11-9, 11-8, 12-10 (56m)
[1] Camille Serme (Fra) 3-0 [3/4] Nele Gilis (Bel)
              11-8, 11-5, 11-1 (25m)

[2] Borja Golan (Esp) 3-0 [3/4] Grégoire Marche (Fra)
              11-7, 11-1, 11-4 (30m)
[1] Gregory Gaultier (Fra) 3-0 [5/8] Raphael Kandra (Ger)
              11-5, 11-3, 11-8

Michael Khan reports

First on today were the ladies semi finals. Last years runner-up Line Hansen had to work hard to beat Coline Aumard 12-10 in the fourth game and reach the final again.

Three times champion Camille Serme proved to be out of reach for young Belgian Nele Gilis and made it through easily.

The first semi of the men between Borja Golan and Gregoire Marche was expected to be a close match but it tunred out to be a one sided affair.

Borja worked the Frenchman hard with many boasts and forced him to make errors. It was over after three fast games.

In the last match of the day Greg Gaultier and Raphael Kandra treated the crowd with an entertaining match.

The German put up a great fight and even had a good lead in the third. But the Champ bounced back to win in three games.

Men's Full Draw

Women's Full Draw

Day two started with the rounds of the last 16 for men and women. There were no surprises in the ladies draw with all seeds getting through to the quarter finals.

Local favorite Linda Hruzikova pleased the home crowd with a 3-1 win against Czech Anna Klimundova thus becoming the first Slovak player ever to reach an EICC quarter final.

Slovak Miroslav Celler was also seeded to reach the last eight but lost against experienced Austrian Jakob Dirnberger. Young Spaniard Edmon Lopez caused the second upset by beating Czech Ondrej Uherka.

The only upset in the women's quarters was the win of young Belgian Nele Gilis in three straight games against Lucie Fialova. All other top seeds reached the semis without dropping a game.

The men's quarters also saw one upset with German Raphael Kandra beating higher seeded Frenchman Lucas Serme in four games.

Greg Marche dropped a game against inspired Spaniard Carlos Cornes but made it to the semis as did the other top seeds.
 

Men's Full Draw

Women's Full Draw

Day One: Under way in Bratislava
Michael Khan reports

The 2015 edition of the European Individuals started today at the Imet club and the glass court in the city centre of Bratislava.

The men played two rounds and are down to the last 16. All seeds went through apart from Pole Lukas Stachowski, who lost to young Hungarian Benedek Sebok.

The women are also down to the last 16 after one round of play today. The top seeds all had byes so action will start for them tomorrow.

It was a cold windy day today making the glass court in the tent rather slow. But the weather forecast for the rest of the week is good so we can expect a bouncier court from tomorrow onward.