2018 Balkan Badminton Championships

2018 Balkan Badminton Championships
Tournament details
Dates	18–20 May
Venue	Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall
Location	Orestiada, Greece
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The 2018 Balkan Badminton Championships (Greek: Βαλκανικού Πρωταθλήματος Αντιπτέρισης 2018) was a badminton tournament sanctioned by the Balkan Badminton Association and Badminton Europe. The individual and mixed team events were held from 18 to 20 May 2018.^[1]

The tournament was held at Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall in Orestiada, Greece.^[2] A total of eight Balkan countries competed in the individual events while only six teams competed in the mixed team event.^[3] Bulgaria won first place in the mixed team event after beating Turkey in the final.^[4] Hosts Greece shared the bronze medal position with Serbia.^[5]

Medal summary

Medalists

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's singles	Daniel Nikolov	Emre Lale	Peyo Boichinov
Men's singles	Daniel Nikolov	Emre Lale	Luka Milić
Women's singles	Aliye Demirbağ	Neslihan Yiğit	Maria Delcheva
Women's singles	Aliye Demirbağ	Neslihan Yiğit	Marija Sudimac
Men's doubles	Daniel Nikolov Alex Vlaar	Muhammed Ali Kurt Emre Lale	Georgios Galvas Panagiotis Skarlatos
Men's doubles	Daniel Nikolov Alex Vlaar	Muhammed Ali Kurt Emre Lale	Peyo Boichinov Ivan Panev
Women's doubles	Aliye Demirbağ Neslihan Yiğit	Bengisu Erçetin Nazlıcan İnci	Theodora Lamprianidou Grammatoula Sotiriou
Women's doubles	Aliye Demirbağ Neslihan Yiğit	Bengisu Erçetin Nazlıcan İnci	Sara Lončar Nataša Pavlović
Mixed doubles	Alex Vlaar Dimitria Popstoikova	Emre Sönmez Zehra Erdem	Stamatis Tsigirdakis Eleni Moutevelidou
Mixed doubles	Alex Vlaar Dimitria Popstoikova	Emre Sönmez Zehra Erdem	Andrija Doder Marija Sudimac
Mixed team	Bulgaria Peyo Boichinov Daniel Nikolov Ivan Panev Alex Vlaar Maria Delcheva Hristomira Popovska Dimitria Popstoikova	Turkey Haktan Doğan Serdar Koca Muhammed Ali Kurt Emre Lale Serhat Salım Emre Sönmez Özge Bayrak Aliye Demirbağ Bengisu Erçetin Zehra Erdem Nazlıcan İnci Neslihan Yiğit	Greece Georgios Galvas Panagiotis Skarlatos Stamatis Tsigirdakis Ilias Xanthou Eleni Moutevelidou Elisavet Nioti Grammatoula Sotiriou Irini Tenta
Mixed team			Serbia Igor Bjelan Andrija Doder Luka Milić Nenad Milošević Sara Lončar Nataša Pavlović Marija Sudimac

Medal table

* Host nation (Greece)

Team event

Group stage

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	MF	MA	MD	GF	GA	GD	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Bulgaria	2	2	0	9	1	+8	18	3	+15	408	293	+115	2	Knockout stage
2	Greece (H)	2	1	1	3	7	−4	8	14	−6	354	397	−43	1	Knockout stage
3	Moldova	2	0	2	3	7	−4	6	15	−9	330	402	−72	0

Source: TournamentSoftware.com
(H) Host

Moldova
2

Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall, Court 1
18 May 2018, 09:20 UTC+2
^[6]

Greece
3

		1	2	3
1	Alexandru Morari Stamatis Tsigirdakis	12 21	6 21
2	Vlada Ginga Grammatoula Sotiriou	21 19	21 12
3	Maxim Carpenco / Alexandru Morari Georgios Galvas / Panagiotis Skarlatos	16 21	17 21
4	Anna Cernetchi / Vlada Ginga Eleni Moutevelidou / Irini Tenta	19 21	21 16	21 15
5	Maxim Carpenco / Anna Cernetchi Elisavet Nioti / Ilias Xanthou	13 21	15 21

Bulgaria
5

Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall, Court 1
18 May 2018, 11:40 UTC+2
^[7]

Greece
0

		1	2	3
1	Daniel Nikolov Ilias Xanthou	21 23	21 13	5 0	retired
2	Maria Delcheva Grammatoula Sotiriou	21 16	21 15
3	Peyo Boichinov / Alex Vlaar Georgios Galvas / Panagiotis Skarlatos	21 11	21 19
4	Hristomira Popovska / Dimitria Popstoykova Eleni Moutevelidou / Irini Tenta	21 14	21 8
5	Alex Vlaar / Dimitria Popstoykova Stamatis Tsigirdakis / Eleni Moutevelidou	21 9	21 17

Bulgaria
4

Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall, Court 1
18 May 2018, 14:10 UTC+2
^[8]

Moldova
1

		1	2
1	Daniel Nikolov Alexandru Morari	21 6	21 14
2	Hristomira Popovska Vlada Ginga	16 21	9 21
3	Peyo Boichinov / Alex Vlaar Pietr Cunev / Igor Uscov	21 18	21 11
4	Hristomira Popovska / Dimitria Popstoykova Anna Cernetchi / Ecaterina Fedotcenco	21 14	21 12
5	Alex Vlaar / Dimitria Popstoykova Alexandru Morari / Vlada Ginga	21 18	21 13

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	MF	MA	MD	GF	GA	GD	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Turkey	2	2	0	9	1	+8	18	4	+14	441	265	+176	2	Knockout stage
2	Serbia	2	1	1	6	4	+2	14	10	+4	416	397	+19	1	Knockout stage
3	Greece B	2	0	2	0	10	−10	2	20	−18	266	461	−195	0

Source: TournamentSoftware.com

Turkey
5

Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall, Court 2
18 May 2018, 09:20 UTC+2
^[9]

Greece B
0

		1	2
1	Emre Lale Petros Tentas	21 18	21 14
2	Özge Bayrak Eleni Melikidou	21 7	21 5
3	Serdar Koca / Serhat Salım Paschalis Melikidis / Achilleas Tsartsidis	21 7	21 16
4	Bengisu Erçetin / Nazlıcan İnci Theodora Lamprianidou / Eleni Melikidou	21 6	21 12
5	Emre Sönmez / Zehra Erdem Petros Tentas / Irini Gougleri	21 6	21 9

Serbia
5

Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall, Court 2
18 May 2018, 11:40 UTC+2
^[10]

Greece B
0

		1	2	3
1	Andrija Doder Georgios Tsiolis	21 13	21 10
2	Sara Lončar Eleni Melikidou	21 15	21 2
3	Luka Milić / Nenad Milošević Nikolaos Koulakidis / Achilleas Tsartsidis	21 7	21 17
4	Sara Lončar / Marija Sudimac Theodora Lamprianidou / Theodora Lamprianidou	19 21	21 11	21 18
5	Igor Bjelan / Nataša Pavlović Petros Tentas / Irini Gougleri	22 24	21 12	21 16

Serbia
1

Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall, Court 2
18 May 2018, 14:10 UTC+2
^[11]

Turkey
4

		1	2	3
1	Luka Milić Haktan Doğan	21 11	21 15
2	Sara Lončar Neslihan Yiğit	6 21	11 21
3	Igor Bjelan / Andrija Doder Serdar Koca / Serhat Salım	21 18	15 21	9 21
4	Sara Lončar / Nataša Pavlović Bengisu Erçetin / Nazlıcan İnci	8 21	5 21
5	Igor Bjelan / Marija Sudimac Emre Sönmez / Zehra Erdem	14 21	21 19	13 21

Knockout stage

Bracket

Semi-finals		Final

Bulgaria	3

Serbia	0
		Bulgaria	3

		Turkey	2
Greece	0

Turkey	3

Semi-finals

Bulgaria
3

Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall, Court 1
18 May 2018, 16:15 UTC+2
^[12]

Serbia
0

		1	2	3
1	Daniel Nikolov Luka Milić	21 18	18 21	23 21
2	Maria Delcheva Marija Sudimac	22 20	21 18
3	Hristomira Popovska / Dimitria Popstoykova Sara Lončar / Nataša Pavlović	21 12	21 12
4	Peyo Boichinov / Alex Vlaar Luka Milić / Nenad Milošević				not played
5	Alex Vlaar / Dimitria Popstoykova Andrija Doder / Marija Sudimac				not played

Greece
0

Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall, Court 2
18 May 2018, 16:15 UTC+2
^[13]

Turkey
3

		1	2
1	Stamatis Tsigirdakis Muhammed Ali Kurt	13 21	12 21
2	Grammatoula Sotiriou Aliye Demirbağ	11 21	10 21
3	Eleni Moutevelidou / Irini Tenta Bengisu Erçetin / Nazlıcan İnci	9 21	9 21
4	Georgios Galvas / Panagiotis Skarlatos Serdar Koca / Serhat Salım			not played
5	Panagiotis Skarlatos / Irini Tenta Emre Sönmez / Zehra Erdem			not played

Final

Bulgaria
3

Nikos Samaras Indoor Hall, Court 1
18 May 2018, 21:30 UTC+2
^[14]

Turkey
2

		1	2	3
1	Daniel Nikolov Emre Lale	16 21	21 17	25 23
2	Maria Delcheva Özge Bayrak	21 19	9 21	13 21
3	Peyo Boichinov / Alex Vlaar Serdar Koca / Serhat Salım	21 13	15 21	21 10
4	Hristomira Popovska / Dimitria Popstoykova Bengisu Erçetin / Nazlıcan İnci	10 21	14 21
5	Alex Vlaar / Dimitria Popstoykova Emre Sönmez / Zehra Erdem	24 22	20 22	21 17

References

^ Σαμουρίδου, Χρυσούλα (2018-05-15). "Βαλκανικό Πρωτάθλημα Μπάντμιντον στην Ορεστιάδα". ertnews.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2025-01-30.
^ INTERNETi. "Το πρώτο σερβίς του Βαλκανικού Πρωταθλήματος Αντιπτέρισης σύντομα στην Ορεστιάδα". e-evros.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2025-01-30.
^ "Βαλκανικό πρωτάθλημα αντιπτέρισης στην Ορεστιάδα". evros24.gr (in Greek). 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
^ "Türkiye, Balkan Şampiyonası'nda ikinci oldu". DHA | Demirören Haber Ajansı (in Turkish). 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2025-01-30.
^ "Srpska badminton reprezentacija osvojila bronzane medalje u muškom i ženskom singlu, ženskom dublu, mešovitom dublu i u ekipnoj konkurenciji na Balkanskom prvenstvu za seniore koje je od 18. do 20. m". Badminton Savez Srbije (in Serbian). Retrieved 2025-01-30.
^ Group A - Moldova vs Greece
^ Group A - Bulgaria vs Greece
^ Group A - Bulgaria vs Moldova
^ Group B - Turkey vs Greece 2
^ Group B - Serbia vs Greece B
^ Group B - Serbia vs Turkey
^ Semi-finals - Bulgaria vs Serbia
^ Semi-finals - Greece vs Turkey
^ Final - Bulgaria vs Serbia

[1] Σαμουρίδου, Χρυσούλα (2018-05-15). "Βαλκανικό Πρωτάθλημα Μπάντμιντον στην Ορεστιάδα". ertnews.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2025-01-30.

[2] INTERNETi. "Το πρώτο σερβίς του Βαλκανικού Πρωταθλήματος Αντιπτέρισης σύντομα στην Ορεστιάδα". e-evros.gr (in Greek). Retrieved 2025-01-30.

[3] "Βαλκανικό πρωτάθλημα αντιπτέρισης στην Ορεστιάδα". evros24.gr (in Greek). 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2025-01-30.

[4] "Türkiye, Balkan Şampiyonası'nda ikinci oldu". DHA | Demirören Haber Ajansı (in Turkish). 2018-05-20. Retrieved 2025-01-30.

[5] "Srpska badminton reprezentacija osvojila bronzane medalje u muškom i ženskom singlu, ženskom dublu, mešovitom dublu i u ekipnoj konkurenciji na Balkanskom prvenstvu za seniore koje je od 18. do 20. m". Badminton Savez Srbije (in Serbian). Retrieved 2025-01-30.

[6] Group A - Moldova vs Greece

[7] Group A - Bulgaria vs Greece

[8] Group A - Bulgaria vs Moldova

[9] Group B - Turkey vs Greece 2

[10] Group B - Serbia vs Greece B

[11] Group B - Serbia vs Turkey

[12] Semi-finals - Bulgaria vs Serbia

[13] Semi-finals - Greece vs Turkey

[14] Final - Bulgaria vs Serbia

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Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Bulgaria	4	0	3	7
2	Turkey	2	6	0	8
3	Serbia	0	0	5	5
4	Greece*	0	0	4	4
Totals (4 entries)		6	6	12	24