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The European Badminton Championships continues for the Magee family in the Ukraine today.
Sam and Chloe Magee who are the 7th seeds in the competition won their opening mixed doubles match over three sets.
Against Dutch pairing, Ties Van Der Lecq and Debora Jille, The Raphoe siblings won the first 21-14, lost the second 21-19 but battled back to win the third 21-14 and move into the last 16.
Sam and Chloe won bronze at the European Championships previously and they know a solid performance in Kiev will help with their target of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics.
Rachel Darragh was also one of the first on court this morning but unfortunately Rachel and her mixed doubles partner Paul Reynolds lost their last 32 round match in two sets.
Chloe and Sam Magee made their exit from Badminton’s Swiss Open this morning.
The Raphoe pair lost their mixed doubles last 16 match 21-17 21-8 to the 7th seeds from Germany, Mark Lamfuss and Isabel Hertrich.
The tournament in Basel was their first competition since the Denmark Open last year.
The Magee’s will look to get back on track for Olympic qualifying at the next tournament which is the All England Open Championships from the 17th -21st March.
They are just outside the cut off for Tokyo with the final rankings to be determined in April.
Earlier in the week, Chloe and Sam won their opening match beating an English pair.