Marcos Freitas

The Portuguese Marcos Freitas and the Croatian Andrej Gacina, continued their good form in their second round of proceedings in the Men’s Doubles event and booked their semi-final place on Saturday 20th March 2010 at the German Open in Berlin. Marcos Freitas is also the only Portuguese player that is still competing in Berlin. Today, in the Quarter Final, 21 year old Marcos Freitas ranked no. 89, and Croatia’s 23 year old Andrej Gacina ranked no. 60 has beaten the Czech pairing of Tomas Konecny (no. 173) / Dmitrij Prokopcov (no. 95), in five games with the margins of 8-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-5, 12-10. With this deserving victory the pair reached the Semi Final where is going to defeat today at 20h45 PM, the powerful pairing supremely experienced and very talented Chinese players pair Hao Shuai and Zhang Jike, the no.4 seed and currently ranked number seven and twelve of World, respectively. To be not that Freitas and Gacina are now the only European players in the men’s doubles competition, since three Chinese pairs book the semi-final places.

photo: by courtesy of the ITTF