Europe Cup Men | 17 Jan 2015

UCAM Cartagena in good shape

In Table Tennis and Boxing Center in Russia, Kazan suffered defeat against Spanish UCAM Cartagena. Even missplaced laguage after long trip could not stop former ETTU Cup champions. In the first leg of the Women’s Cup quarterfinal Cartagena won 3:1. Host club started good. Antonina SAVELYEVA beat Iulia NECULA, before LI Xiang leveled the match. She beat Svetlana MOKHNACHEVA in straight games. Maria XIAO also showed no mercy against Viktoriia LEBEDEVA, whilst LI Xiang on her second enter to the playing box secured important victory for Spanish club. It was bad day for host. Another Russia’s representative failed to produce victory at home soil. In sport center Admiral in Taganrog, Tagmet suffered defeat against Austria’s TTC Carinthiawinds Villacher. Anna BLAZHKO was the only player to score, whilst on the other side of the net Amelie SOLJA and LI Qiangbing were no in the mood for the charity. In the last Women´s ETTU Cup match in the first leg quarterfinal, in Budaorsi 2I SC suffered defeat against French Metz TT in Hungary. WU Jiaduo opened the match in furious style. She left the table after duel against Szandra PERGEL with 17 points on her adversaries’ account. Cornelia MOLNÁR managed to steal the game from FU Yu and it was same case in the match between Mária FAZEKAS VS. Yunli SCHREINER. TTC Kazan – UCAM Cartagena TM 1:3 Antonina SAVELYEVA – Iulia Georgiana NECULA 3:2 (6:11, 13:11, 11:3, 9:11, 13:11) Svetlana MOKHNACHEVA – LI Xiang 0:3 (5:11, 6:11, 3:11) Viktoriia LEBEDEVA – Maria XIAO 0:3 (7:11, 3:11, 6:11) Antonina SAVELYEVA – LI Xiang 1:3 (6:11, 13:11, 9:11, 7:11) TMK Tagmet -TTC Carinthiawinds Villacher 1:3 Valentina SABITOVA – LI Qiangbing 1:3 (8:11, 12:10, 9:11, 5:11) Olga BARANOVA – Amelie SOLJA 1:3 (8:11, 11:8, 3:11, 9:11) Anna BLAZHKO – Ganna FARLADANSKA 3:0 (11:8, 11:6, 11:2) Valentina SABITOVA – Amelie SOLJA 1:3 (4:11, 15:17, 11:3, 7:11) Budaorsi 2I SC – Metz TT 0:3 Szandra PERGEL – WU Jiaduo 0:3 (4:11, 4:11, 9:11) Cornelia MOLNÁR – FU Yu 1:3 (9:11, 11:9, 5:11, 8:11) Mária FAZEKAS – Yunli SCHREINER 1:3 (8:11, 4:11, 11:7, 10:12)