Before the finals Tine Rasmussen had no difficulties in the tournament, but the German player Juliane Schenk had other plans. Actually it was the German “underdog” who led most of the first set – up to 17-12. Then Tine Rasmussen found the routine and won the first set 21-19.

Unfortunately the final sprint was not transferred to the second set where Schenk again controlled the match and won the set 21-14.

Luckily the German “machine” did not manage to be as well-oiled in the last set where Tine Rasmussen by 20-18 finally hit the baseline. Juliane Schenk let it fall, while Tine Rasmussen could let her arms rise up in the air - another title to her. Thereafter she gave the German player a hug as thanks for an excellent match, while Tine on 18^th April 2010 well-deserved won her first European Championship.

Tine Rasmussen won her second All England title after a fantastic match against the defending champion Wang Yihan. The Final was a showdown between the un-seeded player Tine Rasmussen and  #1 seeded Wang Yihan.

In a stunning atmosphere where the many Danish audience gave Tine a brilliant support, she lifted the play to new heights. “She plays like a dream,” the Danish television commentator Steen Skovgaard said.

After 3 tough sets Tine could retire from All England as the winner. Hereby she equalized the Danish player Lene Køppens old record with two All England titles.

More details from the Final here

This week Tine Rasmussen plays China Open, a tourmanement in the Super Series. Tine wants to revenge last week’s performance in Hong Kong, where she was out after 2nd round. In China Open Tine is seeded number two. In first round she will meet AI Goto from Japan. The match is played Wednesday 18th November 8:30 p.m. Japanese time.

Tine Rasmussen this week plays Hong Kong Open, a tournament in the Super Series. Tine is seeded number four in this tournament, and in the first round she will meet Mew Choo Wong from Malaysia. The tournament in Hong Kong has participation of the currently ten best players in the World. To win another Super Series title the play has to be optimal and stable during the tournament.

Sunday 25th October Tine Rasmussen won the Denmark Open tournament. She thereby showed that se after a longer injury break now again is back on top level. Tine won in 3 sets with the digits 21-18, 19-21, 21-14 over the top seeded player Wang Yihan. It was a rematch to Tine, who earlier this year met Wang Yihan in the All England final where the Chinese won.

The victory was Tine’s first Super Series victory in Denmark.

The Danish Badminton Association holds a press conference Tuesday 20th October 12:00 in Odense.

Here they briefly will introduce the goals and expectations for this year’s Denmark Open and make a presentation of the Danish top players chances in the five categories. The assistant coach Lars Uhre, the sports manager Finn Trærup-Hansen, Peter Gade and Tine Rasmussen will be present at the press conference. There will be opportunity for individual interviews after the formal introduction.

After a longer break caused by a heel injury, Tine Rasmussen now is back again ! A new season has started, and Tine’s first appearance after the break will be at the Badminton World Championship in Hyderabad, India, in August. Tine is seeded third in this tournament. Hopefully she can compete fully at the level of Zhou Mi (seeded first) and Wang Lin (seeded second). Tine will definitely fight as usual in this tournament.

Both the semifinal and the final were huge dramas with Tine Rasmussen as an actor at this year’s All England. Both matches took three sets. In the semifinal Tine was the victorious, but in the final the champion from 2008 lost the All England title to Chinese Wang Yihan with the digits 19-21, 23-21, 11-21.

Tine was the only non-Asian in the finals at the All England, so there rested a heavy pressure on her shoulders to defend the European honor. After two absolutely incredible close set, where both players showed nerves of steel, the match ended with a defeat to Tine in the third set. After 58 minutes she lost her title and the chance for a Super Series hattrick.

Due to an injury in the heel, which Tine incurred during the European team championship, she now needs recovery and will therefore not participate in the Swiss Open.

BABOLAT ENTERS A 4-YEAR CONTRACT WITH TINE RASMUSSEN

The French racquets sports company Babolat announce that they have entered a 4-year contract with World n°1 badminton player Tine Rasmussen (DEN). The collaboration of Tine and Babolat will include racket, strings and clothes.

Tine Rasmussen will be a Babolat ambassador of high value for Babolat when looking at her impressive results during the last couple of years. Among them are 6 victories in BWF Super Series, one in 2007, three in 2008 and two in 2009 where she won Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur for the second year running and Korean Open.  Today, her career reaches a peak as she is crowned World n°1 player in Ladies Singles.  

Eric Babolat, President and CEO of Babolat says: “We are very happy to welcome Tine in the Babolat Team. She embodies perfectly the winning spirit of our company. This partnership confirms our will to be a leading actor in badminton”.

Tine Rasmussen: “I am very happy for this collaboration with one of the leading companies in sports. The fact that we have agreed on a 4 year contract shows that they believe in me, and I am very much looking forward to collaborating with them”.

Tine again is number 1 at the World Ranking List

 Throughout several years Tine Rasmussen has been the badminton queen of Denmark. Now, she again is number one in the world. Tine Rasmussen has not had many hangover after New Year’s Eve. Instead, she jumped flying into the new year. First, she defended her title at the Super Series tournament Malaysia Open, and just a week later she also won Korea Open. It has now manifested in the recent world ranking list, where she is back in first place - like she was during November 2008. Afterwards Zhou Mi from Hong Kong was at top of the list, but now the worlds number one again is Danish.

Jens Jacob Juulsager