World Open Proves Popular
Date: 2001-09-13

Roughly one month before registration deadline we have already received as many as 82 applications from people wanting to participate in Gothenburg Racketlon World Open. The mens' elite class alone has reached 24. We have also received the first non-Swedish applications, coming from Finland. Welcome, Finland! This is especially exciting since it will most probably be the first time ever that racketlon players from Finland and Sweden (the only two countries where Racketlon is an established sport) will play in the same tournament.

However, due to the high interest we are forced to take two measures:

1. Limitation

Since there is a limit to the number of participants that we can accept we will, regrettably, have to reject some applicants. In general, this will be based on the date when we received the application - but since this is a World Open tournament precedence will also be given to Elite players and to players from other cuntries than Sweden. Information about who is accepted and who has been put on the reserve list will be provided on this web site.

All applicants that applied before 31. August are guaranteed acceptance.

If you need to redraw your application, please do this as soon as possible by an e-mail to Gothenburg_Racketlon@hotmail.com This is very important since we can offer your place to someone else.

2. Extension

In order to, nevertheless, be able to accept as many people as possible we have extended the lenght of the tournament by one day meaning that we will start on Friday evening, already. New dates thus: 2-4th of November. We understand that this might be inconvenient for you people living outside Gothenburg - and we will try to compensate for this when we schedule your matches; preferably by avoiding Friday alltogether or, at least, by letting you play as late as possible on Friday night.

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