Esmée Böbner and Zoé Vergé-Dépré perform convincingly at the Elite16 tournament in Vienna. The team selected for the Olympic Games reached the quarter-finals directly.
After two hard-fought 2:1 victories on the opening day, in which the Swiss women fought back from a set deficit, they ended the group phase with a 21:12, 21:19 win against the American duo Kimberly Hildreth/Teegan Van Gunst. As a result, the two players from Lucerne and Bern skipped the first knockout round, as they did the week before in Gstaad, and progressed directly to the quarter-finals. These will take place on Friday.
The tournament in Austria's capital is the last test of form before the Olympic Games in Paris. The competition will be held there from July 27 to August 10.