Beach volleyball players miss surprise

On June 4-6, the German University Championship in Beach Volleyball took place in Kiel under good weather conditions. Four teams represented KIT. Two teams each were entered in both the women's and men's events. Jana Gödecke/Nadine Spuhler and Ralph Ivancevic/Sebastian Reichhardt had to fight for 8 remaining main field places in the qualification with 28 teams on Monday. Despite a good performance, the groups turned out to be too settled and thus both unfortunately could not reach the main field.

On Tuesday only the directly qualified teams Laura Sutor/Franziska Geyer and Benjamin Dollhofer/Lukas Lampe were left. Unfortunately, the preliminary round group G proved to be too strong for Laura and Franziska. Despite winning two sets, they were not able to prevail in a strong group and thus finished 25th. In the men's singles, Benjamin and Lukas mastered their preliminary group with ease. In the following 16-player double-out game tree, they still won the first game before they certainly showed their worst performance on Wednesday morning. Therefore, they had to accept a defeat against the fourth Lohmann/Delinksy in the second match. Although on a good day more would have been possible against them, a sensation against the two national players Jonas Schröder and Philipp Bergmann would have been doubtful. Nevertheless, Benjamin and Lukas were satisfied with a 7th place in a strong Beach DHM.

flnr: Jana Gödecke, Ralph Ivancevic, Sebastian Reichardt