Fantastic Friday for Europe – Indonesia Masters: Day 4
Europe had a good day at the DAIHATSU Indonesia Masters 2020, winning most of their matches, and two pairs achieving their first top-tier (Super 500 or above) semifinals.
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After Thom Gicquel and Delphine Delrue’s upset of Praveen Jordan and Melati Daeva Oktavianti, Sara Thygesen and Maiken Fruergaard took down Puttita Supajirakul/Sapsiree Taerattanachai 21-15 22-20 to seal their place in the last-four, where they face fourth seeds Misaki Matsutomo/Ayaka Takahashi.
What made it even more memorable for Thygesen and Fruergaard was that they prevailed in a tense finish in the second game after Supajirakul and Taerattanachai had saved two match points. Just when it appeared that the Thais had the momentum, Supajirakul delivered a dreadful serve to Thygesen, who pounced on it.
“It means a lot, we’ve been in a few quarterfinals,” said Thygesen. “It’s been close but not close enough, so it’s a nice feeling that today we succeeded in our plan. We were more brave, earlier we were so scared of winning almost that we didn’t try things that we’d been doing, so we'd just play safe. But that doesn’t work here, we have to be brave, and try to make the move before the opponents.”