Badminton team «Primorye» won the European Champions Club Cup, which ended in France. The victory was the sixth in the club’s history and the fourth in a row. In the group stage of the tournament «Primorye» two victories without losing a match in one. In the first match of the playoffs the team from Vladivostok met with the team from the Netherlands BC DKC. Losing in the first two matches, then Primorye won three victories and took up in the match meeting, informs «Pacific Russia».

In the semifinals, «Primorye» met with the Italian BC Milano, and the opponent does not cause serious problems for the team of Primorsky Krai. Three wins in the opening three matches and, as a consequence — the finals.

In the final match, our team met with the owners of European club tournament — AIX Universite CB. In the first match, Ivan Sozonov and Valeria Sorokina beat Sylvain Petya Nedelcheva and Grosean — 21:12, 21:11. Then Vladimir Ivanov played against an athlete with an Italian passport, but has Indonesian roots, Ade Chandra. If last year’s game between these rivals ended in favor of Chandra, while this year Ivanov took revenge in serious trehgeymovom match — 14:21, 21:19, 21:17. In the next match in the women’s singles met Lianne Tan, who represented the French team and the Chinese Young Hee, which advocated the «Primorye». A spokeswoman for the French team, which participated at the Olympic Games in London, was able to take up and beat the Chinese woman.

The hope for a positive outcome of the meeting of the owners of the tournament had disappeared in the next meeting. Vladimir Ivanov and Ivan Sozonov that currently are on the 12th line in the world rankings, easily beat Citron and Tangai Sylviane Grosean — 21: 6, 21:10. This match «Primorye» put the winning point in the match meeting.