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Borger celebrates Mother’s Day late
- Updated: May 12, 2016
Antalya, Turkey, May 12, 2016 – With Mother’s Day last weekend, Germany’s Karla Borger celebrated it a week later with her mom this week as the Antalya Open as she and partner Britta Buthe won their three pool play matches to earn a “bye” to the second-round of elimination in the US$150,000 FIVB World Tour.
Seeded second in the women’s Main Draw, Borger and Buthe claimed their third-straight Antalya Open Pool B win here mid-day Thursday with a 2-0 (21-14, 21-18) in 36 minutes over previously-undefeated and 15th-seeded Taru Lahti and Riikka Lehtonen of Finland. In the only other match between the two teams, Lahti and Lehtonen posted a three-set pool play win over the Germans in Moscow last season.
Germany’s Britta Buthe (right) hits at the Antalya Open net against Finland’s Taru Lahti
ONE OF 8 POOL WINNERS
Borger and Buthe were one of eight teams to win their group Friday and advance to Friday’s three rounds of elimination bracket play. The second- and third-place finishers from each pool will also advance to Friday’s schedule where the afternoon quarter-final matches will set the lineup for the …
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