As expected Greek woman national team was to strong for other girls and they won all their matches very comfortable.
Our girls surprised coming second taking their first medal in an international event. Croatian girls came third, while the newcomers from Bulgaria took the fourth place in their first international event.
The men's competition saw some great matches on the final day.
Without Dan Zilic, an injured Dennis Drenjovski and me playing and organising the event, we were not able to surprise in front of our home crowd.
Slovenia beat us in the semis 3:0, while in second semi final Greece beat Bulgaria 3:0 as well.
For the match between us and bulgarian team, SquashLand was packed and our fans gave us really great support. Our no. 3 player Marko Matanovic won first match 3:1, Dennis was not able to finish his match against Stelian Stankov, as his injury got worser. I won my mach against Niki Angelov, so we were very pleased with the third place.
In the final Greece and Slovenia showed why they were best teams on this tournament. Already first match, was good quality of squash and gave Greece 1:0 lead. The no. 1 players Fabian Kalastzis and Klemen Gutman played really fast place with some excellent points in the second match. Fabian, the former top 100 player, played specially the first two sets very well. Gutman fought back in the third, but Fabian showed up again in the fourth bringing Greece 1st Balkan title.
The final day was also without any troubles outside the court and we got some compliments for organisation as well...
Players got really relaxed after the tournament and the party could start in Belgrade's famous club "Plastic", in the center of the town.
It was great to see all this teams here and I hope that next year in the Croatian capital Zagreb the tournament will be even with more teams.
Big thanks to Michael Khan who helped me here a lot with the organisation and for posting to the squashsite. And not to forget Marko Podgorsek and Branimir Caric, who done great job!
Πηγή: Squash Site
