{"id":263323,"date":"2025-07-14T04:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T04:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263323\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T04:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T04:31:15","slug":"ladimir-mayorovs-brilliance-stuns-england-and-lifts-spain-into-the-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/263323\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladimir MAYOROV\u2019s Brilliance Stuns England and Lifts Spain into the Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Watching 11-year-old Ladimir MAYOROV lead Spain to victory in the Round of 16 of the Under 15 Event at the European Youth Championships was a unique experience. Spain reached the quarterfinals after the team, seeded no. 9, defeated no. 4 seeds England 3-1. See photos here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MAYOROV overcame both Abraham SELLADO and Kacper PIWOWAR, while also partnering with Tianxiang ZOU to prevail in the doubles. SELLADO scored England\u2019s sole point with a win over Alexander MALOV. However, it was not just the victory that captured attention in the Torax Arena in Ostrava \u2014 it was the style, the maturity, and the strategic intelligence that the 11-year-old boy displayed, thinking three steps ahead like a seasoned professional.<\/p>\n

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His father and coach, Eduard MAYOROV, explained:<\/p>\n

\u201cLadimir has the mindset of a semi-professional and much older player. He trains every day for 3 to 4 hours \u2013 because he wants to. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s necessary, but he\u2019s doing it because he enjoys the game. He enjoys thinking about tactics, about combinations. Twice a week, he is also in the high-performance center where he trains with me and his mother, Svetlana BAKHTINA, a former member of the national team.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the quarterfinals, Spain will meet the top-seeded Italy. Danilo FASO and Francesco TREVISAN justified their ranking with a solid win over Hungary\u2019s Mark GERGELY and Lenard SZABO.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the first match, FASO Danilo played against GERGELY, which was a really good match \u2013 we believed in him because we knew FASO knows how to play against Mark.<\/p>\n

The next match I played against Lenard SZABO, which I lost 2-3; he was leading 2-0, but then I won two games and it was 2-2. In the fifth game, I was up 8:6 but lost 8:11.<\/p>\n

In the following matches \u2014 the doubles and my last singles \u2013 I was much calmer and more focused, and that helped me a lot to win. In doubles with FASO, we won 3-1, and in my last match against GERGELY, I played really well and won 3-1,\u201d explained TREVISAN.<\/p>\n

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Denmark, seeded no. 17, reached the top 16 and have now gone one step further. On their way to the quarterfinals, Malik SEVERINSEN and Emil HASSELBALCH overcame Portugal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can say that we slightly changed our lineup because we knew MALIK would need some breaks if we were to continue playing more matches \u2013 and we hit the right combination in the lineup.<\/p>\n

We led 2-0 early, which was a big advantage for us. The most difficult match was definitely the second one \u2013 Emil HASSELBALCH struggled a bit when he was leading, but fortunately, he played very smart and calm.<\/p>\n

In that match, he changed tactics \u2014 started to use more spin and a lot of short shots. Portugal really had problems with that, especially the short balls \u2014 we had identified that as a weakness from the start. In the next round, we can play more freely and with calmness. We\u2019ve played a lot of youth series, so we actually expected to make it to the Round of 16,\u201d explained coach Claus ARNSBAEK.<\/p>\n

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In the Under 15 Girls Event at the European Youth Championships, Czechia found their winning rhythm in the Round of 16, played at the end of the third day of competition in Ostrava.<\/p>\n

Hanka KODET, Adela BRHELOVA, and Simona HOLUBOVA overcame Austria\u2019s Mariia LYTVYN, Sophia PICHLER, and Vanessa TANG.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor sure, it is a big relief that we won against Austria. We knew it would be a tough match, but we stayed focused and tried to play our best the whole time.<\/p>\n

We struggled a lot in the group stage, so we are really happy that we made it to the Round of 16 \u2013 and I think we were a bit lucky.<\/p>\n

The most important match was the doubles, because that match is always the most decisive. In this match, we chose the tactic to play more short balls.<\/p>\n

In my singles match against Mariia LYTVYN, I felt really good because I had beaten her the last time we played \u2013 so maybe she had that in her head and was more nervous than me. But I didn\u2019t focus on that win, because every match is different. I went into the match with a clear head.<\/p>\n

To be honest, it wasn\u2019t a simple match, the last two points really helped me,\u201d explained KODET.<\/p>\n

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Romania\u2019s Patricia STOICA and Maya Roberta MADAR were fully in control as they defeated Belgium\u2019s Juliette DEDECKER and Temperance TANG in convincing fashion.<\/p>\n

France caused an upset by beating Sweden in straight matches. Lou-Anne BOCQUET, Eva LAM, and Albane ROCHUT exceeded expectations and outplayed Siri BENJEG\u00c5RD and Angelina BEBAWY.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watching 11-year-old Ladimir MAYOROV lead Spain to victory in the Round of 16 of the Under 15 Event…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-263323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114849715695682237","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}