CCB Europe Top 16 Cup in Montreux
Last year Romania’s Bernadette SZOCS created top upset by clinching the title at the CCB Europe Top 16 Cup in Montreux. This season on 2nd and 3rd February she is ready to justify her status and to defend the gold.
“I already felt hard work in 2019. I had good preparations. I am ready to defend the title. Of course it will not be easy it is even harder ro defend the title. However I am ready motivated and prepared well ” said SZOCS.
Bernie moved to Germany’s Bremen. First tournament in the season was in Budapest.
“It was a good preparation. Very strong competition ” added Bernadette.
The competition at the CCB Europe Top 16 Cup in Montreux will be also very tough.
“All the players in top16 are strong and achieved good results in the past year but I am not afraid of anyone. Considering their rankings it is sure everybody knows to put the ball on the table and deserves to be there but I have been training very hard since last year and I am ready to put one more ball than my adversaries.”
Bernadette SZOCS had a very successful year behind her.
“I am very satisfied with all my acheivements in 2018. I am proud of what I did. It was a very good year for me but I wish even better 2019 because I know I can do it better ” analyzed Bernadette.” I am very proud also that I was the part of the professional T2 League. It was a new and very valuable experience. I learned a lot and I gained a lot of self confidence.”
SZOCS has many new challenges in mind:
“In 2019 the most important thing is to stay healthy and without injures. I want to be in Top 10 in the World. There will be also a lot of important tournaments: European Games World Championships and European Championships. I want to defend our Team’s title at the European Championships to win one medal at Worlds and in Minsk ” concluded Bernadtte SZOCS.
In men’s singles at the CCB Europe Top 16 Cup in Montreux will play: Timo BOLL (Germany) Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (Germany) Mattias FALCK (Sweden) Liam PITCHFORD (England) Vladimir SAMSONOV (Belarus) Jonathan GROTH (Denmark) Simon GAUZY (France) Kristian KARLSSON (Sweden) Marcos FREITAS (Portugal) Emmanuel LEBESSON (France) Daniel HABESOHN (Austria) Tiago APOLONIA (Portugal) KOU Lei (Ukraine) Oividiu IONESCU (Romania) Panagiotis GIONIS (Greece) Lionel WEBER (Switzerland).
Women’s Event: Sofia POLCANOVA (Austria) Bernadette SZOCS (Romania) Elizabeta SAMARA (Romania) LI Jie (Netherlands) Petrissa SOLJA (Germany) Matilda EKHOLM (Sweden) LI Qian (Poland) Georgina POTA (Hungary) Britt EERLAND (Netherlands) Polina MIKHAILOVA (Russia) NI Xia Lian (Luxembourg) Nina MITTELHAM (Germany) Natalia PARTYKA (Poland) Hana MATELOVA ( Czech Republic) Barbora BALAZOVA (Slovakia) Rachel MORET (Switzerland).
CCB Europe Top 16 Cup is going to be covered (replay or delay) by Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2. Table Tennis fans can enjoy watching their favourite sport on TV within two days February 3rd (Eurosport 2 18:45 – 20:10 delay) and February 4th (Eurosport 2 – 13:00 – 14:00 reply Eurosport 1 – 16:45 – 17:30 reply).
CCB Europe Top 16 Cup will be shown in total of 54 countries. They are following: Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kazakhstan Kosovo Kirghizstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Morocco Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey UK Ukraine Vatican.
Tickets are available here.
