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Bulgaria's Stoeva sisters win vice champion title in Basel badminton tournament

Stefani Stoeva and Gabriela Stoeva
Photo: Barcelona Spain Masters

The European women's doubles champions, sisters Stephanie Stoeva and Gabriela Stoeva, won silver medals at the World Super Series 300 badminton tournament in Basel, Switzerland, with a prize pool of $ 140,000. 

The Bulgarians lost in the final to Pearly Tan and Muralitharan Thinaah from Malaysia with 19:21, 12:21 in 43 minutes. 
The Stoeva sisters were runners-up in Basel from 2017 and 2018, and in 2019 they were eliminated in the semifinals.



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