Badminton: Xenia Kölmel wins DBV ranking O19 --- Gloria Poluektov comes second

The third DBV O19 ranking tournament took place from September 13th to 15th in Langenfeld in the Rhineland. In the women's singles, Xenia Kölmel and 16-year-old Gloria Poluektov (both VfB Grün-Weiß Mülheim) competed. In a strong field of 32, Xenia Kölmel made it to the final with clear two-set victories. In contrast, Gloria Poluektov had to go over three sets in a hard-fought semi-final against the number one seed Fabienne Deprez to make it to t…