The Danish head coach Lars Uhre was positive when looking at the programme for Denmark Open.
In today’s qualification matches he highlighted young talent Viktor Axelsen who he believes has a good shot at making it into the main tournament tomorrow. -In the main tournament he could then meet Jan Ø. Jørgensen, which would be an interesting match. It will definitely be very exciting to follow, Lars Uhre says. Danish darling in the ladies’ singles Tine Baun is also looking forward to start playing in tomorrow’s main tournament. But she is aware of her competition. Wang Yihan, who was until recently number one in the world ranking, awaits in the opposite half of the draw, should Tine Baun reach the final. -It is always nice to play on home ground, and I will do my very best to defend my title, she says. No news about Gade At the same time Lars Uhre pointed out that Peter Gade’s chances of playing in this year’s Denmark Open are still questionable. The top seeded Dane is did not attend the conference, but Lars Uhre assures that the team is doing everything they can to make his back injury sufficiently better for him to play. Boe/Mogensen will fight hard -The title was stolen from us in last year’s final, so of course we are eager to go all the way this year, Carsten Mogensen says. At the same time Mathias Boe stated, that the couple’s training for the last few weeks has not been without problems. And therefore they are taking one match at the time. -I can’t even remember who we will meet in the quarter finals if we get that far. We need to take one match at the time and we need to be completely ready to beat Goh and Teo from Malaysia, they are a good couple, Mogensen says.
See the press conference on youtube in danish:
Lars Uhre, click here
Tine Baun, click here
Watch live stream, click here
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