A huge achievement for Olympic badminton player Misha Zilberman, who advanced today (Thursday) to the semi-finals of the European Championship, which is being held in Madrid.
The Israeli promised for the first time in his glorious career, a place on the podium in the most important continental competition.
The 33-year-old Zilberman, who has represented Israel in all three of the last Olympic Games, and is ranked 48th in the world, met in the quarterfinals, a difficult hurdle in the form of the Frenchman Brice LeBrad, who is ranked 6th in the tournament and 39th in the world.
The first set was close throughout, but from its opening the Israeli took the lead and took it, when the trend continued in the second set, when his opponent led once more, but Zilberman knew how to come back and achieve a big victory with 18:21, 15:21 in a game that lasted 34 minutes.
Later in the evening, Zilberman will know who his next opponent will be, in a match between the world number one and Olympic bronze medalist, the Danish Victor Excelsen or the Frenchman Thomas Russell (41 in the world).
This is the biggest achievement in the career of Zilberman, who won a bronze medal at the European Games in Minsk 2019, while we also have the third place in the World Cup held in the United States in 2014, while in the world round we have 3 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze medals.
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