In Sunday morning's semifinal, the Swedes defeated the Dutch Stefan Boermans and Yorick de Groot with 2–0 (27–25, 21–17).
They are a very strong team, it often becomes very even matches against them, so we knew it would be a tough challenge, says David Åhman to SVT.
It was a very fun match. It was super even in the first set and we were close to losing that set. In the second, we played very stable and could win with a little margin.
That the first set became so even and that the set ball was hit in for the first time on the fourth attempt, explains Jonatan Hellvig:
We started a bit shaky in our own attacking game, were not quite as sharp as needed to be. But we got into it more and more and then it went even better in the second, he says to SVT.
Anders Mol and Christian Sørum also defeated a Dutch pair, Alexander Brouwer and Steven van de Velde, with 21–17, 21–11.
The Norwegians are greater than the Swedes in terms of merits – are world leaders and have won four European Championship finals (2018-2021). The Swedes are third in the world and have two European Championship gold medals from before (2022 and 2023).
They are really good, are stable and have good blocks and attacks, says Hellvig.
But the Swedes defeated the Norwegians in the World Tour final in Ostrava two months ago.
We want revenge. We know it's going to be a tough match, says Anders Mol in the interview after the semifinal in SVT's broadcast.
