Gothenburg Racketlon News
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2007-03-25
Top 24 Late March 2007
Larsson's 7th title. He is just
behind Engström in the Marathon League, see here.
Håkan Granberg and Anders Brodin came 2nd and 3rd see picture. Read Majetic's
report here.
2007-03-04
Top 20 March 2007
"Krossa",
Jukka Salminen's comment after Niclas Larsson's 6th Title. Read all results here
2007-02-25
Hungarian Open 2007
Daniel Majetic and Hans Mullamaa fight back strongly in Hungary. Read more about
the tournament here
2007-01-28
Gothenburg Regional Championships, 2007, Top 50
The One and Only-
Ulf Bredberg
Winner of Gothenburg's Regional Championships 2007
Read more here. More
pictures will be added later.
2007-01-14
Swedish Open 2007
Two Gold for Gothenburg in Stockholm, read more here.
(Swedish)
2006-12-26
Top 20 December 2006
Mullamaa in Top Shape. His second Title is a fact. How far
can he go? See all results here.
2006-12-17
Dutch Open 2006
Mullamaa's strongest tournament
ever? Hans Mullamaa was only 2 points from the semifinal in Rotterdam, Holland.
See all results here.(BMM)
2006-12-03
Rautapertti Open 2006
Jukka Salminen took the silver
medallion in Rautapertti Open, Finland (BMM)
2006-11-27
Austrian Open 2006
Hans Mullamaa is climbing the World Ranking. He reached
the second round. See all results here.(BMM)
2006-11-26
Top 16 November 2006
Niclas Larsson wins his 5th title. See all results here.
2006-11-05
Gothenburg Open 2006
Gothenburg's Strongest
Tournament Ever.
-14 Medals for Gothenburg in Gothenburg Open.
Read Larsson's Report from the Tournament and a Presentation of Gothenburg's Top
Players and Results here.
2006-08-23
Three Gothenburg players take part in
this weekend's German Open in Frankfurt. Daniel Majetic plays in the C-Class and
in the doubles with Henrik Håkanssson. Jukka Salminen takes part in the B-Class and plays doubles with Niclas Larsson. Niclas Larsson also plays in the
A-Class.
2006-08-20
Västerås Open 2006
Gothenburg Player on the Top 10 List in Sweden. Read more here
(Swedish)
2006-06-04
The World Championships 2006
Four Medals for Gothenburg in the World-Championships
Lilian Druve came 1st in the team event together with
other Super-Swedes. Druve also came second in the Mix-Event.
Ulf Bredberg came second in the Veteran Event.
Niclas Larsson came second in the Class B Event.
Lilian Druve sitting down in the right corner, with rest
of the Super-Swedes.
Read more about the event here
2006-05-26
The World-Championships in Belgium is getting nearer
and nearer, Gothenburg has a few interesting competitors: Lilian Druve:World
Champion, Ulf Bredberg:Veteran World Champion, Hans Mullamaa, Niclas Larsson,
Jukka Salminen, Daniel Majetic, Hugo Hellman and Isak Johansson are all defending Gothenburg's
honour. "We should at least take two medals, two golds would be good",
says one of Gothenburg's participants.
2006-05-24
Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder IX
The 9th ladder was very, very dramatic this time.The whole
ladder was won by just one point in the very final game. Ulf Björk, Ulf
Bredberg and Niclas Larsson won two games each. Bredberg and Larsson had +7 both
of them, but Larsson won it because of his victory in the final game. Read more
about it here. Check all the
winners in the ladder here.
2006-05-21
The Swedish Championship 2006
Many Gothenburg Racketlon Players took part in the
Swedish Championships this weekend. Isak Johansson took part in the Junior Class
and the C-Class and he fought well. He also beat a new record, he is the
youngest ever to take part in a Swedish Championship, impressive. Peter
Sjöstrand and Niclas Jonsson played in the C-Class, both did very well just
loosing by just a couple points. In the B-Class, Robert Nilsson, Hans Mullamaa,
Pär Mattsson, Fredrik Westlund and Ulf Björk took part. They all did well,
Mullamaa was near winning the tournament he lost by gummi-arm in the
semifinal.
In the Veteran Tournament, Lars Blomstergren did very
well, almost reaching the semifinal, he lost by 2 points in the quarterfinal.
In the A-Class, Kristian Karttunen, Håkan Granberg,
Stefan Engström, Kristoffer Ziegler, Carl-Johan Olsson and Niclas Larsson took
part. Karttunen played well against Mikael Jonsson in the first round but he lost. After that he strongly won the Plate Tournament. Granberg
played against Joachim Nilsson. Nilsson played at his peak, Granberg didn't have
a chance. Olsson and Engström faced each other in the first round. Engström
won. In the second round Engström faced nr 3 Mats Källberg. Engstöm played
well in table-tennis getting 8 points from the table-tennis specialist. In the
badminton Engström also played well, almost winning, 21-23. Källberg was
however too strong in squash and the game was over. Ziegler and Larsson played a
tight game which Larsson won by 2 points. In the second round Larsson faced
Henrik Håkansson, 6th seeded. Larsson played a strong table-tennis
leading 19-4, but Håkansson came back and Larsson won 21-12. In
the badminton Håkansson played better than ever winning 21-19. Larsson was up
13-12 in squash but Håkansson was too strong in the end winning 21-13. In
tennis, Håkansson was expectingly too strong for Larsson.
The Gothenburg
Racketlon players are climbing the ranking, three players are among the 20 best
in Sweden and it looks like many are on their way. If they can cooperate a bit
better one could be certain that Gothenburg soon will have a player among the
top ten in Sweden, perhaps even top 5.
Other highlights this weekend was to see Magnus
Eliasson winning the tournament. He really is a true champ. He says that he
keeps on playing Racketlon because he becomes better and better all the time,
one can not disagree with him there. And he is indeed becoming a lot better at
fair-play. He doesn't need to discuss things with the referee at all, he is too
good for that. Another true fighter this weekend was Joachim Nilsson, he was
very close in beating nr 2 Stefan Adamsson. It
is going to be interesting to see if our badminton pro, Kristian Karttunen and
our table-tennis pro, Robert Nilsson can reach the top 10 in a not too distant
future. If everyone helps each other in Gothenburg, one should have its
elite-star very soon.
2006-04-30
Top 24 April
The old champs are still going strong. Stefan
Engström, who started playing racketlon 1995, took his 7th title, winning
against Håkan Granberg in the final. See all results here.
2006-04-10
Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder VIII
Once again Bredberg took the Racketlon Ladder title. His
fourth title, impressive indeed. Check all the winner here.
World-Champion, Top Winner Twice and Four times
Racketlon Ladder Winner, Ulf Bredberg
2006-03-27
Top 16 March
Niclas Larsson wins his fourth title. The "consistent"
Larsson has been among the top-three 12 times in the local Top Tournaments in
Gothenburg. See all results here.
2006-03-26
Czech Open 2006
Lilian Druve and Ulf Bredberg
show their colours in Prague. The fit and strong Bredberg takes the title and
the Racketlon-Queen Druve comes second. Read more about the tournament here.
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2006-02-27
Top 32 February 2006
Ulf Bredberg-The first one to win the double. Bredberg
won Top 32 and Gothenburg Racketlon Ladder the same month. See all results here.
2006-02-24
Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder VII
Ulf Bredberg won the seventh round of Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder. This
was the Veteran Worldchampion's third title.Check the eighth round of the ladder
here.
Ulf Bredberg, Winner of Gothenburg Racketlon Ladder 3 times.
2006-01-15
Swedish Open 2006
Jukka Salminen and Lilian Druve played at their peaks
at Swedish Open.Druve won Ladies' Elite and Salminen came second in Class
1. Salminen's final against Andreas Källman was very tough, Källman won
the game after 16-11 in tennis. Druve won again, it will be interesting to see
if she can defend her World-Champions title in Belgium in June. Read more about
it on Swedish Open's Homepage, here
Jukka
Salminen.
"The Unstoppable",
"The living wall"
Lilian Druve
2006-01-08
Gothenburg's Regional Championship 2006
THE NEW CHAMPION COMES
FROM BADMINTON
Kristian Karttunen first time winner of the Gothenburg Racketlon Championships
The Finalist: Kristian Karttunen and Staffan Ericsson
As the 2005-2006
Gothenburg Racketlon Championships were held today a new champion was appointed.
Although his victory is not unexpected (given his performance at last month's
Gothenburg Top 40, which he won in a very convincing manner) this is the first
time that Karttunen can call himself Gothenburg Racketlon Champion.
The final against defending champion (and 2002 Racketlon World Championship
Bronze Medal winner!) Staffan Ericsson offered the audience some typical
racketlon drama as tennis specialist Ericsson was 15 points behind before tennis
and thus needed to win by 15-0 to equal out. A daunting task, of course, but for
tennis specialist Ericsson (who used to be a training partner to Swedish former
Tennis star Magnus Norman) by no means impossible. And, to the liking of those
in the audience who wanted a close match, Ericsson started off very determinedly
playing a very solid effective game of long safe rallies winning one point after
the other.
At 10-0 the gummi-arm tie-break was only five points away. But that was when the
mistake came. After 10 or 20 constant shots to Karttunen's backhand Ericsson
went for a straight backhand that, seemingly for no reason, went far out to the
side. It was an unforced error and a suspicious case of "Gummiarm" as
Ericsson probably had started to entertain thoughts like "just a few more
points". In fact, the whole tennis set seems to have been a display of a
phenomenon well known within the racketlon community that might be termed
"Gummiarm Roaming" (referring to the Gummiarm moving from one person
to the other); In the beginning of the set Karttunen obviously had it as his
usually quite impressive serve turned into one double fault after another. But
at 10-0, it seems as if it (together with the hope of winning) moved over to
Ericsson.
The total result was recorded as:
Karttunen - Ericsson +6 (tt: 10-15, ba: 15-2, sq: 15-8, te: 1-10)
Ericsson, Karttunen & Larsson
See all results in detail here. Read more about the
tournament here.
2006-01-01
Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder VI
Patrick Sjögren won the sixth round of Gothenburg Racketlon
Ladder.
2005-12-18
Top 40 December 2005
TOP 40 18 DECEMBER 2005
KARTTUNEN GOTHENBURG'S
ANSWER?
The Gothenburg Top 40 event played earlier today
was surprisingly and
convincingly(!) won by Kristian Karttunen! He beat reigning "Top"
Champ stefan Engström with +30 points in the final, which is very impressive
for someone that is still fairly new to racketlon having taken part only a
couple of times so-far. Has Gothenburg finally got a Men's Elite star? The
Gothenburg Racketlon Club proved its quality at the Vienna World Championships a
few weeks ago by seizing two(!) out of the three most prestigious titles through
Lilian Druve in Ladies' Elite and Ulf Bredberg in Men's Veteran (both duely
celebrated at the Annual General Meeting yesterday). But since Staffan Ericsson
took the bronze in Gothenburg World Open 2002 there has been little sign of a
real challenger among the Gothenburg Men's Elite players. Karttunen might well
be what we have been waiting for! A U22 Swedish badminton champion in 2004 he
currently ranks among the very best badminton players in Sweden (a 21-0 victory
against Stefan Engström - a good badminton player by international racketlon
standards - speaks a language that most racketletes understands...) and his
improvement rate in squash and table tennis has clearly been dramatic over the
last year.
Under the inspired lead of Niclas Larsson the Gothenburg "Top" event
has grown considerably and today's event was the biggest _local_ racketlon event
ever held in Gothenburg with 38 participants in three classes. Niclas will be
back on January 8 with the Gothenburg Racketlon Regional Championships, a yearly
event that normally attracts about twice as many participants as the standard
Gothenburg "Top" events...
Summary of results
Gothenburg Top 40
Alelyckan, Gothenburg
/Hans Mullamaa
MEN ELITE
Quarter Finals:
Niclas Larsson - Jukka Salminen +1 (tt 11-15, ba 15-14, sq 15-12, te 15-14)
Kristian Karttunen - Anders Brodin +15 (8-15, 15-1, 15-8, 15-14)
Stefan Engström - Peter Hedram +5 (10-15, 15-8, 15-13, 12-11)
Björn Hagelqvist - Sebastian Arnell +15 (15-5, 14-15, 15-9, 1-1)
Semi Finals:
Kristian Karttunen - Niclas Larsson +14 (7-15, 15-0, 15-9, 2-1)
Stefan Engström - Björn Hagelqvist +19 (15-11, 15-9, 15-6, - )
Match for Third Prize:
Niclas Larsson - Björn Hagelqvist +8 (12-15, 15-4, 15-9, 9-15)
Final:
Kristian Karttunen - Stefan Engström +30 (17-21, 21-0, 21-8, -)
Full results Elite and
Class 1 check here
See Amatuers' results here
2005-12-05
The draw for the biggest local tournament ever in
Gothenburg, Top 40, the 18th of December is now on the site, check here:
Elite Draw
Class 1 Draw
Amateur Draw
2005-11-28
World Championships 2005
Gothenburg Took Three Gold Medallions in the
WorldChampionships!
-Lilian Druve won Ladies' Elite and the Team
Event with the other Super Swedes
-Ulf Bredberg Won the Veterans' Title
Gothenburg Racketlon's Superstars, Lilian Druve and Ulf
Bredberg. Read more about the World-Championships here.
2005-11-07
Gothenburg Racketlon Open 2005
Gothenburg Dominates in Many Classes in Gothenburg
Racketlon Open
Ulf Bredberg Won the Veterans' Class
Lilian Druve Took Silver in Ladies' Elite
Stefan Engström and Carl-Johan Olsson came 1st and 2nd in Men's Class 1
Mattias Björk came second in Men's Amateur Class
Jukka Salminen won the Class 1 Plate
Kalle Moseby won the Men's Beginners' Class
Susanne Eriksson won the Ladies' Beginners' Class
Staffan Ericsson reached the quarterfinal in the Elite Class, close in beating
nr 3 in the World. Read more about the tournament here.
2005-10-31
Top 16 October 2005
Bredberg Takes Down the Juniors-
Ulf Bredberg Wins his first Top 16 Victory.
Gothenburg's Racketlon King, Ulf Bredberg
What a guy this is. He gets stronger and more skillful each time he plays.
However, he had some tough games today. He conquered two table-tennis
specialists in the quarterfinal and semifinal. He won the quarterfinal against,
Kristofer Ziegler, 5th today (a future-top one in Gothenburg?) by 10 points and
then beat Carl-Johan Olsson by 10 points in the semifinal. In the final he faced
Niclas Larsson. The all-round and strategical Bredberg made Larsson serve really
badly in badminton, and this was one of the resons why he won the game. "He
is very smart, Bredberg, very smart comments Larsson." Larsson will win
easily, because Bredberg is so tired, said Carl-johan Olsson before the
game". The juniors were all wrong Bredberg is at the moment Gothenburg's
Racketlon King. We all wonder who will win next time. Staffan Ericsson, Stefan
Engström, Hans Mullamaa and Bredberg have all won Top 16 Tournaments this year.
Who will win the next tremendous battle? The 18th of December is the final Top
16 this year and the 8th od January is Gothenburg's Regional Championship.
Read more in details from this tournament here
and check all the results in detail here.
2005-10-30
Gothenburg Racketlon Ladder V
The fifth round of Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder has
now been played. Niclas Larsson won it and Ulf Björck came second.
Larsson now "Double-Ladder-Champion"
2005-10-10
A lof of important racketlon events take place in
Gothenburg in October-November. Gothenburg Racketlon Tournament takes place the
4th-6th of November. The last day to enter is the 16th of October. See homepage here.
One week before this major event another important tournament is played, Top 16.
Last day to enter Top 16 is the 16th of October. Enter by sending an e-mail to gothenburg_racketlon@hotmail.com.
Furthermore Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder is now on every sunday, we now have 5
divisions.
2005-09-26
Top 16 September 2005
Mr
Racketlon, Stefan Engström, impressively won this weekend's Top 16 Tournament.
Engström only had to play tennis once against Lars Blomstergren in the
quarterfinal. Engström has played extremely well the last three tournaments he
has entered, 2,1,1. He is nr 1 in the Marathon League (see here)
and he climbs the Gothenburg Racketlon Ranking ranking rapidly. It may just be a
matter of time before he takes over the Nr 1 position in Gothenburg. (see
ranking here). Check out
all the results from the tournament here
and read more about the tournament here.
2005-09-25
Scottish Open 2005
Lilian Druve impressively came second in Scottish Open
and Hans Mullamma is climbing the World Ranking, now nr 20 in the World,(check
out ranking here)
read more about Scottish Open here.
2005-09-10
This first season's Top16, 25th of September,
is getting nearer. Quite a few players have already entered the tournament (See
entry list here.) Last day
to enter is sunday the 18th of September. Scottish Open is on the same day, Hans
Mullamaa and Druve have entered the tournament.
2005-05-22
Swedish Championships 2005
Olle Benéus and Lilian
Druve-Swedish Champions
Olle Benéus won the Veteran's Title.
Impressive of the Magic-Veteran, Benéus. Druve won her seventh title!!!
Anders Brodin also took part in the Elite. He did well,
winning his first game and in the second game he put up a good fight
against semifinalist, Wall. Read
more about Benéus and Druve's triumphs on www.racketlon.com
on this link
and check the results on the tournament's homepage, here.
2005-05-15
Finnish Open 2005
Lilian Druve Won her First Finnish Open Title.
The Gothenburg Racketlon Queen, Lilian Druve won the
Finnish Open this weekend. Hans Mullamaa also did well, reaching the
quarterfinal. Jukka Salminen also took part in Class I, and he did well.
Read more about the tournament on the tournament's homepage, here,
and on www.racketlon.com on this link.
2005-04-25
Top 16 April 2005
A True Racketloner Took his Fifth Victory in the Strongest Top 16 Ever
This weekend's Top 16 Competition was indeed dramatic. Before the event Hans
Mullamaa was the the biggest favourite, since he won quite easily last month.
However, Ulf Bredberg had shown good form in Czech Open so he could very well go
all the way.
An old picture but still characteristic of what went on in
today's Top 16. The Racketloner, Stefan Engström, to the right, top-focused on
next event. Anders Brodin nr 5 today, to the left, looking deeply disappointed
but still determined.
The First Rounds-Good Individual Games but Overall Expected
Winners
The highest ranked people won all their first rounds. Niclas Larsson (1)
beat Hans Lager. This was Lager's debut in Top 16 (He has played in the
Racketlon-Ladder before.) and he showed good determination. He was a bit unlucky
in the table-tennis, because he lost quite big in the game but than after the
match he beat Larsson. Another interesting newcomber was Tomas Lundqvist, who had
a tough draw against Anders Brodin (6). He fought well, especially in
table-tennis, but he lost. Patrick Sjögren, ranked nr 8, faced Stefan
Andersson. This was Andersson's second Top 16 tournament, and he is indeed
improving day by day. He won the table-tennis, 15-12, and played well in the
other disiplines. Everyone better watch out for this guy because he is
practising hard and he climbs the ranking fairly rapidly.
The third game this day played Csaba Banhegyi against Hans
Mullamaa (3). Csaba lost but he put up a good fight and beat the well-trained
Mullamaa in squash, 16-14. Björn Hagelqvist also lost his game but played very
well in table-tennis (winning 15-9) against Stefan Engström (4). Jukka Salminen
(7) beat Markus Edlund in a good game. Olle Benéus (5) had a first tough start
against table-tennis specialist Carl-Johan Olsson (2-15), but he came back
strongly winning by 16 points overall.
Quarterfinals-7 out of Gothenburg's 8 Highest Ranked Players Faced Each Other
In the first quarterfinal, Niclas Larsson faced Anders Brodin. A tough draw
since both players won Top 8/16 before.(Check it out, Marathon
League) Brodin started up in an impressive way comfortably winning
table-tennis 15-8. Larsson's hard badminton training paid off when he won the
next sport by 15-5.The squash was even, they were both well prepared. Larsson
was a bit lucky, he got a few lucky shots. He was up 8-7, but at the end Brodin
showed that he is best player of them in squash, 15-11. In the tennis Larsson
showed a good stability and won 15-8, he therefore won the game overall by 6
points.
The second quarterfinal- Hans
Mullamaa-Patrick Sjögren lookeed interesting indeed. Mullamaa won last top 16
(see
report)
and Sjögren played well in the last Ladder ((see Ladder news).
Unfortunately Sjögren felt a bit sick and couldn't play at his peak. Mullamaa
played strongly winning by 18 points, 15-9, 15-8, 15-10.
A sick Patrick Sjögren, nr 8 today,
lost in the quarterfinal against the
strong Hans Mullamaa.
The
third quarterfinal- Stefan Engström and Jukka Salminen was also considered to
be an even game. Salminen beat Engström in Gothenburg Regional Championships (see report)
and Engström has, according to himself, been more focused on his training
lately and he came second in the last tournament. (Check out results here.)
Engström won the game surprisingly easy, +19 points (15-9, 15-8, 15-10).
Engström's comments on the game: "Jukka wasn't himself". The
well-trained athlete, Jukka comments: "It was too early in the morning, I
usually get up at 09.00-09.30." For Jukka's sake we'd better hope he gets
to play later next time.
Nr 7 today, Jukka Salminen in action.
He lost in the quarterfinal against Stefan Engström.
"It was too early in the morning, says Salminen".
The fourth quarterfinal- Olle Benéus and Ulf
Bredberg was a tough draw for both players. Benéus and Breberg have faced each
other in many memorable bronze-medallion games, (see report GC 2005, here.)
and also played each other in Veterans´ final in the World Tour Tournament,
GRO. (see report here.) Bredberg has won all their last games, but the fighter
and squash-terminator Benéus gets closer and closer. This time Benéus won both
table-tennis (16-14) and squash (15-8). But Bredberg showed yet again why he is
Gothenburg's strongest veteran and nr 2 in the World, winning badminton (15-8)
and tennis 15-11. Bredberg won the whole game by just 4 points.
Olle Benéus, nr 6 today. The squash-terminator,
Benéus,
gets closer and closer in winning over Bredberg, -4 today.
Semifinals IRF-President against GRF-President and the True Racketloner
against Czech Open Winner
In the first semifinal Niclas Larsson faced Hans Mullamaa. Interesting
battle indeed. They have both trained very well this season. Mullamaa argued
that his form was just a bit better since his last Top 16 success. Larsson has
trained and competed like maniac the last two weeks, since his wife and baby
have been away. He has trained about competed about 5-6hours a day and he has
played 21 competitive racket matches in different leagues. In other words they
were both well prepared. Larsson's was 100% focused in the table-tennis winning
15-5. 
Mullamaa's comment: "Larsson played extremely well". In the
badminton game Mullamaa started up brilliantly leading 13-3 and it looked like
he was back in the game. However, Larsson surprisingly came back in the game and
Mullamaa could just win 15-11. The honest Mullamaa said after the game: "I
didn't play bad at the end, Larsson just played good". The third sport,
squash, was even but Mullamaa won it by 15-11. Larsson played very stable tennis
in the end and won it 15-9. The overall score was then 6+ points for Larsson.
The second semfinal, Stefan Engström-Ulf
Bredberg was also a very unpredictable game. Engström had done a a
bit of running the last days , in order to improve his stamina. And Bredberg was
in good shape after his victory in Czech Open. Engström showed his
professionality in the table-tennis winning the game by 15-2. Then he kept up
his focus and also won badminton and squash. 15-7, 15-9. This day Stefan
Engström was just too good for Bredberg. His running training has undoubtedly
paid off. Engström had won all his first three games without having to play
tennis. Impressive indeed.
The Czech Open Winner, nr 3 today, Ulf Bredberg
and the IRF-President, former Top 16 Winner, nr 4,
Hans Mullamaa.
The Final- The True Racketloner, Stefan Engström, Takes his Fifth Title
This was Larsson's third Top 16 final this year. Engström is indeed a true
Racketloner, he has, noteably, been trainining and competing in racketlon since 1995. He is one of the ones who started Gothenburg Racketlon's first
trainings and ladders. He has aslo won Gothenburg Regional Championships, 2000.(Check results
here.)
They have both been nr 1 on the Ranking. Larsson took over
Engström's nr 1 position in October-November 2004. Before that Engström had
been nr 1 for a very long time. Their last game won Larsson by 1 point in the
final in February 2004. (Check results here.) However, Engström won their
first two matches.The table-tennis was important for both of them.
Larsson needed to get many points in order to win the game. It started up very
well for him, leading 3-0. But the True racketloner came back rapidly. It was
even up to 11-9 to Engström. Then the table-tennis specialist, Engström,
started playing. He won the game fairly easy by 21-12.
The badminton game was
very even. Engström took all Larsson's drop shots, and he seemed to be everywhere
at the same time.
However, Larsson could still strongly win it but with a small
margin, 21-19. The squash game was also even, Larsson had to fight his breaths
out to win 21-18. Engström was up 4 points before the tennis. Stefan Engström,
The True Racketloner, showed impressive tennis skills when he won the final game
fairly easily 18-9. Engström comments on his victory: " I practice a lot
more these days, especially tennis and running." Apparently, have a few
guys in Lindome Tennis Club given him some valuable training before his fifth
Top 8/16 victory. He has now won most titles by all Gothenburg Racketlon Players.
Impressive indeed. Larsson better watch out on the ranking, he is still nr 1,
thanks to his consistency, but if Engström keeps up his impressive play he will
most likely overtake him on the ranking. Check out ranking
here. The next
tournament will be in held in August-September. To read more about the
tournament, check results in detail here,
and read more comments here.
Stefan Engström, The True Racketloner,
.
nr 1 today seemed to be everywhere at
the
same time during the
badminton-game.
2005-04-18
Czech Open 2005
THREE GOLDS FOR GOTHENBURG IN CZECH OPEN
Ulf Bredberg won the Veteran's Class and
Lilian Druve won the Mix Class and the Women's Elite Class. Read more about
their triumphs on the tournament's homepage here.
Lilian in
action-
Mr Bredberg is now chasing Pär Carleke.
She took two golds herself!
2005-04-17
Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder IV
Niclas Larsson won the fourth round of
Gothenburg Racketlon Ladder. He beat Patrick Sjögren by 2 points in the
extremely tough final round. Sjögren had two matchpoints.
Mr Larsson-
The Third Ladder-Champion.
2005-04-14
Gothenburg Racketlon Club has two participants in the
upcoming Czech Open, 15-17th of April, Ulf Bredberg and Lilian Druve. Bredberg
has good chances to go all the way in the Veterans' Class and Druve has good
chances to win the ladies' event. Druve also competes in the Mix-Class with
Joachim Nilsson, Karlstad.
2005-04-11
The draw for this season's last Top 16 competition (Sunday
the 24th of April) is now on the web. Check it out here.
2005-04-06
The very last Top 16 this season, sunday the 24th of
April, looks very promising indeed. 6 of the ten best on the ranking have
already entered the tournament. The last day to enter is sunday the 10th of
April. Check out entries here.
The whole report from the last Top 16 event can now be found here.
A marathon league of all Top 16/8 victories since the start in January 2002 is
also added to the report
and can also be found here.
2005-04-03
The fourth round of Gothenburg Racketlon Ladder can now finally
be found on the webpage, check it out here.
2005-03-28
Top 16 March 2005
The President Strikes Back. -A True Success for Hans Mullamaa in Today's Top 16
Event.
Hans Mullamaa to the left.
The Racketlonguru, The President of the International Racketlon
Federation, Mr Hans Mullamaa played at his peak during today's tough
racketlon-competition. He won the whole tournament fairly easy. First he beat
Niclas Larsson (+7 10-15, 15-12, 15-5, 8-9). "I have never seen Mullamaa
play this well, said Larsson who was nr 1 on the ranking before this tournament.
He continues: "I didn't have a chance in squash." In the third round
Mullamaa beat the strong squashspecialist Olle Benéus (+15 16-14, 15-6, 15-11).
"He had three luckyshots in squash, but I have honestly never seen him play
this well, said a quite disappointed but honest Olle Benéus. In the
final, The President, faced the strong all-round player Stefan Engström. It was
a tough game. Mullamaa started up very well in table-tennis leading 4-2, and he
kept on playing well, just loosing by 4 points against table-tennis specialist
Engström. (11-15) In the badminton game Mullamaa showed yet again why he
is now one of the best players in Gothenburg, winning quite comfortably by
7 points (15-8). Mullamaa is very tricky player in badminton, one never knows
where he is going to put the ball. He won all his badminton games today, which
is very impressive. The squash game was also a fairly easy game for Mullamaa
(15-6). He looked mighty strong. Engström played well but it wasn't enough. In
tennis Hans needed 4 balls, he won 4-2.
We are indeed impressed by Hans Mullamaa's achievement today. Håkan
Granberg, nr 5 today, admirably commented on his mate's victory. "What can
I say. He has had a good time in Canada and I am sure he has trained as
hell." Olle Benéus believes Hans should thank his Canadian girlfriend for
his success....Well Done Mr President, you truly deserve your first TOP16
victory. Nr 2 today, Stefan Engström is really keen on a revenge next month and
Staffan Ericsson is most definitely back to fight next time about the Gothenburg
Racketlon Title. Read all the results from the tournament here.
More reports from the tournament will come up shortly on this link.
2005-03-21
The draw for the next TOP 16 compettion, 28th of March, is
now on the homepage, check it out here.
2005-03-20
17 players have now entered Top 16 monday the 28th of
March. There will be one qualification game. There are indeed quite a few interesting names among the
competitors. Håkan Granberg and Stefan Engström are both back in the game. It
will be interesting to see if they can go all the way. The former World-Champion,
Lilian Druve, is also taking part. The guys better watch out. There are also
three newcombers: Stefan Andersson, Anders Näs and Kristian Lindberg.
Apparently Näs has been close in beating one of the top ten in Gothenburg
before. Interesting indeed....
2005-03-18
Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder III
Ulf Bredberg, the ladder-champion, took his second victory in
Gothenburg Racketlon Ladder. The ladder is yet not finished but Bredberg has
already won all his games and won the league. Congratulations Bredberg, well
done!
2005-03-14
The next Top16 Racketlon competition will be held on
monday the 28th of March. The last day to apply is the 20th of March. To apply
just send an e-mail to gothenburg_racketlon@hotmail.com
2005-03-13
Canadian Open 2005
Our own Hans Mullamaa played Canadian Open in Toronto this
weekend, 11-13th of March. Mullamaa did well considering he played in the same
group as the World-Champ, Magnus Eliasson. Mullamaa won one game in his group,
and he will most likely climb the world-ranking. Mr Eliasson was unexpectingly
too tough for him.
2005-03-01
Gothenburg's Racketlon ranking is now updated after
the last TOP-16 competition. Check it out here.
The third round of Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder is
now also on the site, check it out here. Read the whole
report with more pictures from this weekend's Top-16 Tournament, here.
2005-02-27
Top 16 February 2005
Allround Player, Staffan Ericsson, Wins Again
The second Top-16 Racketlon Tournament has now been played.
All the results can be found here.
Staffan Ericsson impressively won yet again beating Niclas Larsson in the final. Larsson
comments on Ericsson's victory. "He is just too good, especially at the end
of the games". Larsson was up 16-14 in badminton and 14-10 and 18-16 in
squash but Ericsson won both sports anyway. The strong tennisplayer Ericsson
also won the table-tennis!!
Staffan Ericsson and Niclas Larsson
Nr 3 on Gothenburg Ranking, Ulf
Bredberg, came third again. Bredberg had to play Ericsson in the semifinal and
Ericsson was far too strong. "I will play a lot better next time, says
Bredberg". Anders Brodin ended up as nr 4, he was quite close in beating
Larsson in the semifinal leading 7-2 in squash (16-14). Patrick Sjögren plays
better and better, he came 5th today. Nr 6, Hans Mullamaa showed his strength in
a few games, beating Ericsson by 15-4 in badminton and beating Jukka Salminen
overall. Björn Hagelqvist and Saliminen played a last tough game which Salminen
won. Mattias Nilsson could very well become a new racketlon star. He won 3 of
his four games today, finishing up as nr9. Another new strong racketlon guy, is
Carl-johan Olsson, he strongly came 10th. Markus Edlund beat Andreas Genne in
the final round and thereby took the 11th place.
The two strong squash players Csaba Banhegyi and Lars
Blomstergren fought about place 13th. Blomstergren was the strongest of them.
Csaba played well today, just loosing by one point against Carl-Johan Olsson in
the second round. Anders Persson and Roger Johansson had a fairly tough game at
the end. Johansson won it by 13 points. Read more comments look at more pictures
about the tournament here.
2005-02-21
Gothenburg Racketlon Ladder II
Ulf Bredberg won the second round of Gothenburg's
Racketlon Ladder's first division beating Niclas Larsson in "the
final".
Niclas Larsson & the Champ Ulf Bredberg.
2005-02-20
The draw for the next TOP-16 racketlon competition,
Sunday 27th of February, can now be found on the site. Check here.
6 of the 8 highest ranked players in Gothenburg are taking part in this big
local racketlon tournament.
2005-01-22
Check out the second round of Gothenburg's Racketlon
Ladder, here.
There are now 6 Divisions in the Ladder.
2005-01-17
Swedish Open 2005
FOUR MEDALS AT SWEDISH OPEN, STOCKHOLM
2005-01-11
Swedish Open is getting nearer and nearer. Gothenburg
Racketlon Club has quite a few interesting participants. Lilian Druve looks like
the favourite in the ladie's Open. Hans Mullamaa and Niclas Larsson are taking
part in the Elite Class and Anders Brodin, Ulf Bredberg and Jukka Salminen play
in Class 1. Ulf Bredberg "the marathon man" is also playing in the
Veteran's Class. Olle Benéus also play in this Class. Roger Johansson and Jonas
Obert will play in the Amateur Class. 152 players have entered the tournament.
See entry list here.
2005-01-10
Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder I
Hans Mullamaa wrote history when he won Gothenburg's first
Racketlon Ladder. He won against Ulf Bredberg in the "final". A
strong performance indeed by the "Racketlon-Man", Mullamaa.
Hans Mullamaa winner of the first
Racketlon Ladder in Gothenburg
2005-01-09
If you want to
take part in our second round of our Racketlon Ladder, which will be played
30.1., 6.2., 13.2. and 20.2., the last day to enter is 16th of January. Third
round takes place 6.3., 13.3., 20.3. and 27.3., the last day to enter 27.2. Fourth
round 3.4., 10.4., 17.4. and 24.4., last day to enter 27.3. The last round of
the spring 1.5., 8.5., 15.5. and 22.5., the last day to enter 24.4.
Send your entry to racketlonserie@hotmail.com
2005-01-03
Gothenburg Regional Championship 2005
GOTHENBURG REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
These are the headlines for the biggest local racketlon event
of the year:
Blomstergren strongest of the qualifiers
Gothenburg's biggest local racketlon tournament was
indeed an interesting event. All the best players on the Gothenburg ranking
except from Hans Mullamaa and Håkan Granberg took part in this major local
event.
Hans Mullamaa and Håkan Granberg, to the right, were
the only higly ranked players who couldn't take part
Four players had to play qualification games in order to enter the tournament.
The former squash player, Lars Blomstergren, proved strongest of the
qualifiers. Blomstergren played well in the tournament winning 3 of his 4
squash-games and finishing up as nr 10.
Two other new intersting players took part in
this event. The tennisplayer, Jonas Obert, and the badmintonplayer Lasse
Winnberg. They both played well. Obert came 14th and Winnberg 12th. Winnberg had
a tough final game against squashplayer Csaba Banhegyi. Banhegyi strongly ended
up as a winner by 11 points (15-9,15-4, 1-15, 15-7) Anders Persson had also
qualified for the tournament and kept up his spirit and strongly won two
badminton games. Persson got beaten by Roger Johansson who came 15th. Johansson
played well badminton and took 9 points of Staffan Ericsson in this sport.
The player who came 13th, Björn Hagelqvist, had
a tough draw playing Olle Benéus in the first round and Anders Brodin in the
second, but his table-tennis and tennis looked strong yet again. And he also
remarkably took 7 points in badminton against Benéus.
The most interesting game this day (?)
Anders Brodin, who won the Class 1 Event in
the World Championships 2003, had an unlucky draw in the first round, Kristian
Kartunen. The extremely good national badminton badmintoplayer Kartunen was not
too happy about the draw either. Sometimes you are lucky to get a good draw, and
sometimes you will have to face a tougher opponent...
Quite a few people looked
at game and surprisngly Kartunen proved to be the strongest of them winning by 2
points. (8-15, 8-15, 15-1, 15-13). Brodin, who was seeded as nr 4 in the
tournament, winning Top 8 in April, was now out. But he finished up well, he won
his last three games and finished up as nr 9. Brodin will come back, no doubts
about that.
Ander Brodin, nr 9, he will come back no doubts about that.
Another highly ranked player who got beaten.
Two other Gothenburg Racketlon stars who had a tough draw
were Ulf Bredberg and Stefan Engström. The third seeded player, Stefan
Engström, who has won 4 Top 8 tournaments (!) had to play Bredberg
in
the second round. Bredberg has yet not won a Top 8 tournament, but he has
finished up as nr 2 in two tournaments. Perhaps is is just a matter of time
before Bredberg goes all the way. Bredberg was too strong for Engström today
winning by 5 points (11-15, 10-15, 15-10, 15-6). Engström had two tough
games against Jukka Salminen and and Kartunen in the last two rounds and
lost them as well. He came 8th. Apparently he has not been practicising that
much lately. This one has to do in order to stay in the very top of Racketlon in
Gothenburg. However, Engström will definitely come back as well.
Stefan Engström, nr
8,
Salminen on the other side, nr 6, looks
will defintely also come
back
stronger for each day.
The Veteran Phenomena
The two veterans who came 1st and 2nd in Gothenburg Racketlon Open, Veterans
Class,
Ulf Bredberg and Olle Benéus did almost the same thing again. Impressive. Olle
strongly beat Kartunen in the quarterfinal taking 4 points of him in
badminton. (15-9, 15-7, 4-21, 13-9) In the semifinal Staffan Ericsson was too
strong for Benéus (3-15, 15-11, 8-15) and so was Bredberg in the match about third
prize.(10-15, 9-15, 15-6, 15-6) The match about the bronze-medallion was tough. Benéus won the first two disiciplines but
Bredberg was too strong again in the end of the game.
Olle Benéus, to the left, came fourth.
Bredberg took the bronze-meallion
2004-12-07
Check out match schedule for Gothenburg Racketlon Ladder's first round, 3 Divisions, (Göteborgs Racketlonstege) Check it out here.
2004-11-29
Top 8 November 2004
The second Top-8 Tournament this season is now played.
One new interesting face participated in this month's Top
8 competition, the tennis player- Markus Edlund. He played well considering this
was his very first Racketlon-tournament. He ended up as nr 6, due to Anders
Brodin's injury. (Check all the results in detail here.)
The standard of this tournament was quite high, according to the players
themselves. It was a tough tournament considering that the skillfull player,
Olle Benéus, only ended up as Nr 5 and the guy who came second in the last top
8, Jukka Salminen came 7th.
Patrick Sjögren played strongly and fairly and did his
best Top 8 competition so far, he came fourth. Hans
Mullamaa is improving day by day after his knee injury and finished up as
nr3.
The extremely weird final
The final between Ulf Bredberg and Niclas Larsson was
indeed a very weird game. Larsson strongly won the table-tennis, which he never
done before against Bredberg, 21-13. The squash was indeed a "racketlon-game".
Bredberg who beat Larsson the last time in squash lost 21-1! Larsson played his
best squash game ever, racketlon is indeed a very unpredictable sport. Before
the badminton Larsson was up by 28 points, and badminton is usually his
strongest sport....The fighter Bredberg refused to give up and impressively won
the badminton game 21-9. Larsson needed 6 points in tennis. The result was 21-9
to Bredberg, Larsson won by 4 points overall. Larsson has won 3 out of the last
4 Top 8 Competitions he has taken part in and is now nr 1 on the Gothenburg
Racketlon Ranking List, well done!
(Check all the results from the weekend in detail here
and all TOP 8 results in detail here.)
2004-11-22
The start of of Gothenburg's Racketlon Ladder is
getting nearer and nearer. Unfortunately, we have had problems with our e-mail
address, but now it is working again. If you have entered before the 14th of
November and if you are not on the entry list (check here),
than you will have to enter again so that we can confirm your entry and update
our entry list. The last day to apply has been changed to the 29th of November.
We are now 12 people in the league, but, as mentioned, more peole have entered
but we have had problems with our e-mail address. We will also put an add in the
newspaper and by this we will reach out to a lot more people.
Interstingly, quite a few good elite table-tennis and tennis players have entered the league already.
2004-11-17
The draw for the next Top 8 competition November the 28th
is now online. It looks like a very unpredictable tournament. Anders Brodin (1) faces the veteran world bronze medallist, Ulf Bredberg. A very unlucky draw
for these fellows but a very interesting game indeed...
Hans Mullamaa (4) faces Csaba Banhegyi or a
newcomber in Top 8, Niclas Jonsson, in the first round. Patrick Sjögren will have to play against Jukka
Salminen (3) and Olle Benéus faces Niclas Larsson (2).
See the whole draw and timeschedule here.
2004-11-15
World Championships 2004
The World-Championships in Vienna was indeed fantastic.
The best racketlon tournament ever played. Gothenburg took three medals:
- Lilian Druve won the gold with the National Swedish Team.
- She also came second in the Ladie's Open.
- Ulf Bredberg came third in the Veterans.
Hans Mullamaa also played very well in the Elite Class, he just lost against
Callum Reid and then he beat Johan Nordstrand in the plate, the guy who reached
the quarterfinal in Gothenburg. Olle Benéus also played well, he reached the
quarterfinal in the Veterans where he had to play the worldchampion, Pär
Carleke. Tough draw for Benéus. Staffan Ericsson did well, he won his first
game in the Elite against Steven Thomson, who won the plate. In the second round
Ericsson faced a tough John O'Donnell and lost. Niclas Larsson lost his first
game in the Elite against Douglas Struthers. He faced Bulgaria's top badminton
and squash player in the first round in the plate and lost that as well. He did
ok in the plate though, he only lost by 8 points and took 11 points in
badminton. Brodin played ok in Men's Open, he won his first games and then lost
against a top table-tennis player.
-The tournament was indeed amazing and Gothenburg took 3
medals. Excellent!
-Read more about the World Championships in Vienna here.
2004-11-08
The World Championships in Racketlon in Vienna,
Austria, is getting nearer and nearer, 11-14th of November. Gothenburg
Racketlon have quite a few competitors. Hans Mullamaa, Staffan Ericsson, Niclas
Larsson, Anders Brodin, Olle Benéus, Ulf Bredberg and Lilian Druve all take part in this
Racketlon feast. It will indeed be a very memorable tournament, 256 players from
all over the world.
2004-11-01
Gothenburg Racketlon Open 2004
It was indeed tough for the Gothenburg Racketlon
players during Gothenburg Racketlon Open. However, one reached all the way, Ulf
Bredberg in the Veteran's Class. He beat Gothenburg player Olle Benéus in the
final. Lilian Druve also did well, she came second in the ladies event. Read
more about it here.
2004-10-25
455 visitors to this site so far. Gothenburg Racketlon
Open is shaping up nicely, 98 entries from 8 different countries. How will it go
for the Gothenburg Racketlon Club's Elite Players? Mullamaa has a tough draw,
Holger Stamm Germany. Engström can go far, but Johan Nordstrand in the first
round is a tough opponent. Brodin can win in the first round, but Mikael
Jonsson is difficult to beat. Larsson faces Roland Helle.....
Salminen, Bredberg, Andreasson, Sjögren
& Druve can all go far in Class 1, even win it? In the Women's Open, Lilian
Druve is keen on a revenge, she is playing Sarah McFayden in the second round,
and also in the final? A really interesting game considering McFayden won last
time. Olle Benéus looks like the favourite in the Veteran Class.
Anyway, Gothenburg Racketlon Open will be
good this year, no doubts about that.
2004-10-11
English Open 2004
Niclas Larsson was the only Gothenburg player in the
World Tour Tournament, English Open, this weekend. He did ok and and came second
in the Elite Plate. However, he was very near reaching the quarterfinal, he only
lost by eight points against Austrian, Marcel Weigl, who came second in the
whole tournament. Read more about it here.
2004-09-28
Top 8 September 2004
239 visitors so far to this site. Gothenburg's Rackelon Community is indeed
expanding.
The first Top-8 Racketlon competition this autumn has been played today
Two new faces entered Gothenburg's local competition today. Gerald Haycock,
England, Gothenburg, Sweden and Andrei Wall, England, Australia. It was tough
for Haycock, but he seemed to enjoy it. Wall did well considering this was his
third tournament. Wall came 6th and Haycock 8th. See results here.
Roger Johansson also did well. He ended up 7th,
he had a tough opponent in the first round, the class 1 World Champion Anders
Brodin. He actually beat Brodin in badminton 21-19.Number 5 today was the strong
tennis player, Patrick Sjögren. Patrick unluckily faced today's winner in the
first round, Stefan Engström. However he beat Engström in badminton. Patrick
is definitly a coming man in racketlon. The one who came fourth today was Niclas
Larsson. He played ok considering he has been injured since March. His tennis
was however questionable.
Jukka Salminen surprised most people, coming second and
playing extremely well. The winner of the last Top 8, Anders Brodin, did ok,
finishing up third, playing well in squash. Today's winner, Stefan Engström,
looked mighty strong. His fourth Top 8 victory. It will be tough for anyone to
beat Engström at his present form. Well done and congratulations Engström!
See photos here
from Top 8 and read about the upcoming Racketlon League in Gothenburg.
2004-09-13
Rautapertti Open 2004
Our own Jukka Salminen played Rautapertti Open this
weekend and did very well, he came third in the Elite Class, see results here.
2004-08-10
Scottish Open 2004
Stefan Engström, Håkan Granberg and Lilian Druve all did very well
in Scottish Open. Håkan and Stefan both reached the quarterfinal. See results here.
The world-champion Lilian came second, see results here.
2004-07-28
47 visitors so far to this site. Gothenburg Racketlon
Open, 29-31 October, has already got 9 entries, see homepage for more info: http://www.jlguidance.se/go04/.
Gothenburg Racketlon will have a meeting the 12th of August. A racketlon
'league' in Gothenburg will be discussed at 17.00, at 18.00 we will discuss
Gothenburg's new racketlon club. All racketlon players in Gothenburg and others
are very welcomed to join us in this exciting, historical and interesting
meeting.
Furthermore, three racketlon players from Gothenburg
will take part in the next World Tour Tournament in Scotland, 7-8th of August.
The defending ladies' champion, Lilian Druve, who also impressivly won the
Class 1 event in Scotland for Men a couple of years ago. The two best
ranked players on Gothenburg's Ranking list will also take part, Stefan
Engström and Håkan Granberg. Racketlon in Gothenburg is truly expanding day by
day...
