Champions League Men | 30 Jan 2018
Just one home victory in eight quarter-finals
Sporting is unique successful team on home soil in the first leg of both TTCLM and Seamaster ECLW quarter-finals
Sporting Clube De Portugal was unique successful team on home soil in the first leg of both TTCLM and Seamaster ECLW quarter-finals, held last week. Other seven wins are recorded by visitors, Fakel Gazprom Orenburg, Saarbrucken, Borussia Dusseldorf (TTCLM), TTC Berlin Eastside, KTS Tarnobrzeg, Dr. Casl and Bursa Buyuksehir Belediyespor (Seamaster ECLW).
Two tops seeds in the TTCLM, reigning champion Orenburg (no. 1) and runner-up Borussia (no. 2) beat their opponents in straight games, Rosklide and UMMC respectively. The same advantage, but in the Seamaster ECLW, have secured no. 2 seed and defending champion Berlin, as well as no. 3 seed and one of main title contenders Dr. CASL, facing Szekszard and actual ETTU Cup Women winner Lille Metropole respectively.
Regarding individual scores, Orenburg`s duo stay unbeaten in the TTCLM: Jun MIZUTANI 7-0, Vladimir SAMSONOV 5-0. Borussia`s leading player Timo BOLL has improved his win-loss record to 9-1, Orenburg`s Dimitrij OVTCHAROV, current world no. 1, to 6-1, Sporting`s Joao MONTEIRO and UMMC`s Andrej GACINA have 7-2 each…
Women`s actual best win-loss record belongs to HAN Ying (6-0) from Tarnobrzeg. Three players are one step behind, Berlin`s SHAN Xiaona, and Dr. Casl`s DOO Hoi Kem and FU Yu (all three 5-0).
TTCLM quarter-finalists, individual win-loss records
Orenburg: OVTCHAROV 6-1, MIZUTANI 7-0, SAMSONOV 5-0, LIVENTSOV 1-2, IVONIN 0-1, KUZMIN 0-1
Sporting: ARUNA 5-5, MONTEIRO 7-2, CARVALHO 4-3
Saarbrucken: APOLONIA 5-1, FRANZISKA 6-2, TOKIC 5-2, BAUM 3-1
UMMC: GACINA 7-2, YOSHIMURA 2-2, SHIBAEV 4-5, VLASOV 2-1, ZHIDKOV 0-2, KISELEV 1-0
Ochsenhausen: GAUZY 6-2, CALDERANO 4-3, GERALDO 1-3, DYJAS 3-3, MURAMATSU 1-1, ZWICKL 1-0
Stella Sport: SHIAHO 8-3, CHEN 7-3, CRISAN 0-2, OLLIVIER 1-4
Borussia: BOLL 9-1, FEGERL 0-3, KARLSSON 6-3, KALLBERG 5-2
Roskilde: ZHAI 5-5, MAZE 3-5, TROMER 2-5
Seamaster ECLW quarter-finalists, individual win-loss records
Tarnobrzeg: HAN 6-0, SAMARA 4-1, LI Qian 4-1, PAVLOVICH 1-0
Lille Metropole: KHETKHUAN 0-3, SZOCS 4-1, LE LANNIC 2-3, XIAO 1-3
Bursa: LEE 7-3, HU 5-1, NOSKOVA 3-2
Linz: POLCANOVA 4-4, ZHANG 2-4, HO 1-2, BERGSTROM 1-2
Dr. Casl: DOO 5-0, LI 3-1, FU 5-0, ZHOU 2-0, SREBRNJAK 0-1
Szekszard: MIKHAILOVA 1-4, MADARASZ 0-5, PASKAUSKIENE 0-1, CHENG 4-1, IMRE 0-1, PAYET 0-1
Berlin: SHAN 5-0, POTA 5-1, PALINA 1-1, MATSUDAIRA 1-2, MUHLBACH 0-1
Saint Quentinois: MONTEIRO-DODEAN 3-4, EERLAND 4-3, LE MANSEC 0-3, CHENG 1-2, ZARIF 0-1
TTCLM quarter-finals, first leg
TTSC UMMC - Borussia Düsseldorf 0:3 (2nd leg Feb 9, 20:00)
Roskilde Bordtennis BTK61 - TTC Fakel Gazprom 0:3 (2nd leg Feb 9, 14:00)
Sporting Clube De Portugal - Stella Sport La Romagne 3:1 (2nd leg, Feb 9, 19:30)
TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen - FC Saarbrücken Tischtennis 2:3 (2nd leg Feb 9, 18:30)
Seamaster ECLW quarter-finals, first leg
Szekszard AC - TTC Berlin Eastside 0:3 (2nd leg Feb 9, 19:00)
CP LYSSOIS LILLE METROPOLE - Dr. Časl 0:3 (2nd leg Feb 9, 18:00)
TT SAINT QUENTINOIS - BURSA BÜYÜKŞEHİR BELEDİYESPOR 1:3 (2nd leg Feb 10, 16:00)
Linz AG Froschberg - KTS Tarnobrzeg 1:3 (2nd leg Feb 9, 18:00)