Bernadette Szocs has achieved a fantastic performance for Romania, qualifying in the final of the double test at the World Table Tennis Championships in Doha (Qatar). Along with Austrian Sofia Polcanova, the 30 -year -old player is fighting for the gold medal.
Bernadette Szocs is fighting for gold tomorrow. Photo Facebook Cosr
The European vice-champions have passed today, in the semifinals, the South Korean couple Yubin Shin/Hanna Ryu, after a match on the edge of a knife, cut only at the end of the decisive set. It was 3-2 for the Romanian-Austrian pair: 11-5, 8-11, 11-8, 9-11, 11-9.
Chinese on the way to gold
In the end, Bernadette Szocs and Sofia Polcanova will face the Chinese pair Manyu Wang/Man Kuai, who had passed by the Romanian-Spanish couple Adina Diaconu/Maria Xiao.
Romania had not obtained a medal at the World Cup in 2019, when Ovidiu Ionescu and the Spanish Alvaro Robles won the silver in the men’s doubles. For women, it is the first medal won by Romania at the individual world championships after a 32 -year break.
