After Karla Borger / Julia Sude and Chantal Laboureur / Cinja Tillmann had reached the round of the last 16 on Wednesday with two wins, Victoria Bieneck / Isabel Schneider and Kim Behrens and their new partner Sandra Itttlinger moved to the intermediate round on Thursday. Bieneck / Schneider won against the Russian Duo Mariia Bocharova and Maria Woronina, Behrens / Itttlinger prevailed against the Norwegians Ingrid Lunde and Emilie Olimstad. For men, only Thole / winder with two wins on the direct path reached the secondary finals. First, the Olympia fifth defeated in a German duel Alexander Walkenhorst / Sven Winter. Later they reached a 2: 1 (18:21, 21:12, 17:15) against the Italian Paolo Nicolai / Daniele Lupo, against which they had lost in the preliminary round at the Olympics in Tokyo with 1: 2. Walkenhorst / Winter decided the second game against the Russian Ruslan Bykanow and Alexander Likoletov with 2: 0 (21:14, 21:18) for themselves and had the chance to catch the secon...