The LIEBHERR TTBL Final’s line up is complete: After the energetic performance TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen beat Borussia Düsseldorf on Thursday and bought the ticket for the Bundesliga final (TTBL). The defending champion will meet 1.FC Saarbrücken TT in the Fraport Arena in Frankfurt am Main on Sunday. Timo BOLL had won the first game against Simon GAUZY but the tenth in the World rankings also lost to Hugo CALDERANO 2: 3. For Borussia Düsseldorf the door to the Liebherr TTBL final was already open after the second singles. At that point the record winning Bundesliga champions led 2: 0 against TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen and Kristian KARLSSON was well on the way to becoming the match winner. The Swede showed top shape and had calm nerves in the match against Hugo CALDERANO. After 4: 8 in the first set KARLSSON fought back and with seven points in a row won 11: 8. He also did not let Calderano’s 11: 6 to upset him at 1-1. The Dusseldorf player always chose great rallies fought off five set balls from his opponent in the third set and took the lead again 15:13 to use his first match ball in the fourth for 11: 8 and thus for a 3: 1 victory . Previously Timo BOLL had clinched the expected victory and had given Simon GAUZY no chance in his 3-0 (11: 7 11: 6 11: 3) triumph. The semi-final duel was far from decided. The defending champion fought back first thanks to Jakub DYJAS. The Poland’s player who left Ochsenhausen after the season had a fierce exchange of strokes with Anton KÄLLBERG but had more luck in the closing phase. After 11: 6 7:11 13:11 and 7:11 it went into the deciding game which DYJAS won 11: 9 for 3: 2. Ochsenhausen was back in the game. “It was a very good and exciting game in which I was a little bit more lucky in the end ” analyzed DYJAS after his match on the Eurosport microphone. “I’m glad we’re still in the game.” So it came to the top singles between the world ranked tenth and sixth between Timo BOLL and Hugo CALDERANO. Both of them used their complete repertoire played in various speeds and strokes and with tactical finesse. Accordingly it went back and forth CALDERANO went 11: 9 in the lead BOLL equalized with the same result CALDERANO used his third set ball to 13:11 but BOLL forced the decision set with an 11: 4. And in this Calderano had a few more reserves: The Brazilian recovered from 6: 8 to a 10: 8 lead and did not let Boll’s time-out out to interrupt his rhythm. With 11: 8 he ultimately prevailed and recorded 3: 2 victory and thus brought the Düsseldorf player his first defeat in the current TTBL season. “I hadn’t found my rhythm in the first game ” said CALDERANO “luckily things went better against Timo. I am very happy with my victory. ” Simon GAUZY seemed additionally spurred on by the success of his team-mate. In the fifth single the Frenchman made a squeaky clean appearance scored the first four points against Kristian KARLSSON to gain the control over the match. “The whole team did a great job ” said the 25-year-old afterwards. “Jakub showed a great mentality Hugo a great level against Timo. Now we are looking forward to the final on Sunday.” Ochsenhausen meets Saarbrücken on Sunday Timo BOLL was visibly disappointed after missing the final. “Actually we played quite well but Ochsenhausen has increased a lot over the course of the game ” said the 39-year-old. “Hugo played very well today I have to acknowledge that. Against Ochsenhausen you have to take advantage of the opportunities that arise. We didn’t manage that today. We’ll have to nibble a bit on that. ” FC Saarbrücken TT won 3-0 against SV Werder Bremen on Wednesday. The final game starts in the Fraport Arena in Frankfurt am Main at 2 p.m. Eurosport will be broadcasting live on Free TV from 3:15 p.m. and the entire game will be available on Sportdeutschland.TV from 2 p.m. Semifinals 1. FC Saarbrücken TT – SV Werder Bremen 3:0 Shang Kun – Kirill Gerassimenko 3:1 (4:11 11:8 11:6 11:1) Patrick Franziska – Mattias Falck 3:0 (11:5 11:9 11:7) Darko Jorgic – Marcelo Aguirre 3:1 (5:11 11:9 11:9 11:3) Borussia Düsseldorf – TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen 2:3 Timo Boll – Simon Gauzy 3:0 (11:7 11:6 11:3) Kristian Karlsson – Hugo Calderano 3:1 (11:8 6:11 15:13 11:8) Anton Källberg – Jakub Dyjas 2:3 (6:11 11:7 11:13 11:7 9:11) Timo Boll – Hugo Calderano 2:3 (9:11 11:9 11:13 11:4 8:11) Kristian Karlsson – Simon Gauzy 0:3 (7:11 9:11 8:11)
FRANZISKA lead 1.FC Saarbrücken TT to Liebherr TTBL final
1. FC Saarbrücken TT reached the Liebherr TTBL final. Today they beat SV Werder Bremen in straight matches. The second semi-final will take place on Thursday followed by the showdown in the Fraport Arena on Sunday. Patrick FRANZISKA was the backbone of Saarbrücken’s success. FRANZISKA avenged his three defeats in the in the duels against SV Werder Bremen previously by taking a leading role today. He showed no mercy against Mattias FALCK and took two opening games – 11: 5 and 11: 9. In the third game FALCK had a better start and went 6-2 up but FRANZISKA was simply unbeatable. The Saarbrücken who celebrates his 28th birthday on Thursday equalized secured three match balls with 10: 7 and used the first for 3-0. “I am glad that my match plan against Mattias worked so well ” said FRANZISKA afterwards. “I had big plans and had analyzed his game in the past few weeks.” Just under an hour had been played at the point when Saarbrücken secured 2-0 lead. In the first singles Shang Kun had lived up to his role as favorite. After the Chinese lost his opening game against Kirill GERASSIMENKO with 4:11 he changed the rhythm. JORGIC sealed the match after starting difficulties. In third position Marcelo AGUIRRE from Bremen was under considerable pressure. The 27-year-old seemed to be spurred on rather than inhibited by this: Aguirre won the first set against Darko JORGIC 11: 5 with an aggressive game justifying his line-up by Werder coach Cristian TAMAS. As the match progressed however JORGIC played better and after 11: 9 and 11: 9 in the fourth set finally had everything under control. Jorgic secured seven match balls and used the first to win 3: 1. “After the two defeats against Bremen in the previous rounds we were warned ” said FCS coach Slobodan GRUJIC after the game. “Now we are ready for the final and will use the coming days to prepare as best we can. I am very optimistic. ” Patrick FRANZISKA said:“ We are a little surprised at how well things went today. Now we are looking forward to the final on Sunday. ” Cristian TAMAS said:“ We had better chances than the final result suggests ”said the Bremen coach. “But Saarbrücken was simply strong today and has deservedly moved into the final.” 1st FC Saarbrücken TT will meet in the Liebherr TTBL final on Sunday the better from the clash between Borussia Düsseldorf and TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen. This game will also be broadcast live on Free TV on Eurosport and in the stream from Sportdeutschland.TV. Semi-finals 1.FC Saarbrücken TT – SV Werder Bremen 3: 0 Shang Kun – Kirill Gerassimenko 3: 1 (4:11 11: 8 11: 6 11: 1) Patrick Franziska – Mattias Falck 3: 0 (11: 5 11: 9 11: 7) Darko Jorgic – Marcelo Aguirre 3: 1 (5:11 11: 9 11: 9 11: 3) Thursday June 11 1 p.m. Borussia Düsseldorf – TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen Liebherr TTBL finals Sunday June 14 2 p.m .: 1. FC Saarbrücken TT – winner semi-finals 2
LIN Yun-Ju replaces CHUANG Chih-Yuan in Fakel Gazprom Orenburg
In the Table Tennis Champions League Men Fakel Gazprom Orenburg reached semi final before Pandemic halted all sports activities. Russia was not excluded from the global threat and had to go through lock down. The international line up of Fakel Gazprom Orenburg as well as domestic forces are back in venues now. “All players of the TTC Fakel-Gazprom Orenburg have been in self-isolation for the last two months as well as many athletes in the world. They were engaged in physical training at home. Dimitrij OVTCHAROV continued his intensive training sessions in the playing hall as soon as German Government allowed professional players to train. Marcos FREITAS Vladimir SAMSONOV Alexey LIVENTSOV and Denis IVONIN have also already started their training sessions ” said Vice-President and head coach Victor ANDREEV. . There will be no semi finals in the ETTU Club competitions but Fakel Gazprom Orenburg still have to finish the season in the Russia’s League. If the Champions League competition is stopped at the Semi-Finals stage the Russian Premier League championship is suspended for the time being after the third round. It remains to hold the fourth round and the Super final. After the third round TTC Fakel-Gazprom is the sole leader having won all the matches. The question of the resumption or the termination of the Russian championship will be decided in the nearest future. For the next season the plans of the TTC Fakel-Gazprom remain the same. “We want to win the European Champions League the Russian championship and the National Cup. LIN Yun-Ju – an 18-year-old world-class player (No. 7 in the ITTF ranking) the first number of the Taiwan national team will play in our club from July 1. He will play in the team instead of CHUANG Chih-Yuan.”
OVTCHAROV’S avenged his defeat against QIU at the Düsseldorf Masters
Dang Qiu cannot repeat his success of the previous week against Ovtcharov The winners couldn’t be more prominent. One week after the premiere success of Timo BOLL with Dimitrij OVTCHAROV another former world number one won the second tournament of the Duesseldorf Masters today. Next week the third part of the tournament series which is organized by Borussia Duesseldorf with the support of the German Table Tennis Federation (DTTB) will take place on three days and will be streamed live on Sportdeutschland.TV Borussia-TV and tischtennis.de. At the second tournament the 2017 World Cup winner took revenge in the final with a clear 3-1 win over Dang QIU for the defeat he suffered against the man from Gruenwettersbach in the quarter-finals a week ago. In the preliminary round matches tournament favourites OVTCHAROV beat Fulda’s up-coming youngster Fanbo MENG and QIU against second seed Kanak JHA (USA). The American shooting star who will wear the TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen jersey next season had previously put an end to Steffen MENGEL’S hopes of reaching the final again. With OVTCHAROV JHA and QIU the three top seeded players reached the semi-finals as expected. At the second tournament of the Duesseldorf Masters yesterday Gerrit ENGEMANN was the only one who brought up a surprise in the round of best sixteen. The runner-up of the European U21 Championship 2019 who starts for TTC GW Bad Hamm defeated the world number 76 Alberto MINO from Ecuador the number four seeded player. In the fight for a place in the semi-finals however Engemann was today unable to save a 2-0 lead over Meng today. In comparison to the premiere tournament a different field of participants started yesterday and today due to the TTBL play-offs also taking place this week included JHA and several youth national team players. Joerg ROSSKOPF head of Germany national men’s team was satisfied with the second master tournament: “Dima was hot to win the tournament. Against DANG who previously had a tough match against JHA he played very focused and powerful in the final. You can see from all the players that the tournament is very well received. Training and competition can be perfectly combined in this format. The games are taken very seriously and as a coach you see a lot of things here that we can take over to the neighbouring training hall and incorporate into the training. That’s the way it has to be.” The format which will be held almost weekly at the ARAG CenterCourt from June to August is intended to give the German national players the players of Borussia Duesseldorf and the players of the training group at the German Table Tennis Centre in the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia practical experience. Timo BOLL Dimitrij OVTCHAROV and Patrick FRANZISKA three of the world’s top players are among the general group of participants. Four cracks from the world’s top 50 as well as four more athletes from the top 100 make the Duesseldorf Masters the only tournament series of its kind in the world at this level. The tournament organized by Borussia Duesseldorf with the support of the DTTB will be played on three days from the third week of the tournament after two two two-day opening events. The Duesseldorf Masters are held in a knockout system with up to 16 participants. The series ends with a final tournament with eight professionals for which the athletes have to qualify or are admitted via a wildcard. All games of the Duesseldorf Masters will be broadcast live with several cameras on sportdeutschland.tv Borussia TV and tischtennis.de. Spectators on site are not allowed to watch the games in order to contain the corona pandemic. Quotes Dimitrij Ovtcharov (after winning the tournament) “I think I’ve had a better rhythm this week than the last one. The whole match feeling has developed and that was a class better. Of course there has to be more in the future but I’m really happy with the way I played today. Especially last week I always played against Dang out of the setback today the match was more dominant from the beginning. Dang has developed quite strongly just like Bene Duda and that’s why it was a decent win and I’m looking forward to the other tournaments.” Dang Qiu (After his final defeat) “In the end second place is first loser. Dima played better today was better prepared and I myself wasn’t as good and lively as last time. I lost without a chance in the first two sets. In the last one it was still relatively tight but then I took it into my own hands with a few easy mistakes. At this level that is punished directly. A summary of the whole tournament: I am very satisfied to have reached the final.” Kanak Jha (after his victory in the quarter finals) “It was a really tough match. The last time I played Steffen Mengel it ended 3-2 like today. I knew that it would be a close match and I am really happy that I won and reached the semi-finals.” Fanbo Meng (after his victory in the quarter finals) “I was 0-2 down and then I fought my way into the game. Generally I like to play against Gerrit. I have never officially won against him if I am honest. I am very happy that I won against Gerrit. He also played well especially at the beginning but at the end he got more nervous I noticed that and built up more pressure. So I could still turn the game around.” Duesseldorf Masters 2nd tournament FINAL Dimitrij Ovtcharov – Dang Qiu 3:1 (7 2 -7 6) SEMIFINALS Dimitrij Ovtcharov – Fanbo Meng 3:0 (7 9 6) Dang Qiu – Kanak Jha 3:2 (-7 3 5 -5 9) QUARTER FINALS Dimitrij Ovtcharov – Tobias Hippler 3:0 (8 2 10) Fanbo Meng – Gerrit Engemann 3:2 (-7 -9 10 6 9) Dang Qiu – Cedric
ORGANISERS CONFIRM 2022 DATE FOR THE EUROPEAN VETERANS TABLE TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS IN CARDIFF
Local organisers have confirmed that the 2021 European Veteran’s Championships (EVC) in Cardiff (Wales) will be moved to 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The EVC 2022 will be the largest table tennis championships to be hosted by Wales and the organising committee requested to move their event back a year to allow for the changes in the event calendar due to this worldwide crisis. The event was originally due to be held between the 27th June-3rd July 2021 but the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) agreed to review these dates considering numerous events needed to reschedule a year later most notably the Bordeaux World Veterans Championships (WVC). The EVC 2022 will be held at Cardiff Metropolitan University on the 26th June to 2nd July 2022 and Table Tennis Wales as the host National Association has been working closely with the local organising committee to ensure that the event website will be launched later this year with entries opening at the Bordeaux WVC. Rhian PEARCE Table Tennis Wales CEO said: “We have been working closely with the ETTU to establish the best option for our EVC tournament and we are delighted that the ETTU are supportive of moving it to 2022. The COVID-19 crisis is proving an extremely difficult challenge for society and sport at present and we look forward to welcoming all the players to Cardiff in 2022 to our fantastic event” ETTU President Ronald KRAMER fully endorsed the rescheduling of this event and said: “Of course it is with mixed feelings that we had to decide to postpone what has become one of the greatest festivals of table tennis in Europe. But under the present pandemic circumstances with the World Veterans Championships being moved from this year to 2021 I am grateful to all involved that we have managed to agree on having our European Veterans Championship now in 2022. Much to our comfort it will still be staged in Cardiff by the enthusiastic and dedicated Table Tennis Wales. Although – or is it because? – we have to wait a little longer we are therefore even more looking forward to this great event in 2022!” Cardiff Metropolitan University’s Deputy Director of Sport Owen Rogers said: “We are disappointed that European Veteran’s Championships will not take place as planned next year. We’d been looking forward to welcoming players from across Europe to the Welsh capital and our world-class facilities here in NIAC. “We look forward to working with Table Tennis Wales on making the next event even bigger and better when it returns in 2022.” Event queries: evc2022@tabletennis.wales
ENGEMANN beats the number 76 in the World
Duesseldorf Masters Part 2 (June 8 and 9) One week after the successful premiere of the new tournament series “Duesseldorf Masters” the start of the second tournament was on the agenda today. Gerrit ENGEMANN provided the only surprise of the day. The 2019 European Junior Championship finalist reached the round of the best eight players with a 3:1 victory over world number 76 Alberto MINO (Ecuador). Tomorrow on June 9th the quarter- and semi-final matches as well as the final will be streamed live from the Arag CentreCourt on Sportdeutschland.TV Borussia-TV and on tischtennis.de Engemann defeats the number 76 in the World and the remaining seven favourites had no difficulties with their challengers and confidently reached the quarter finals. The aces Dimitrij OVTCHAROV Kanak JHA and Qiu DANG seeded from one to three beat the DTTB-youngsters Nils HOHMEIER Tayler FOX and Kirill FADEEV without losing a set. Premiere finalist Steffen MENGEL won against Kay STUMPER Tobias HIPPLER against Felix KÖHLER Fanbo MENG against Tobias SÄLTZER and Cedric MEISSNER beat former German national team player Thomas KEINATH in duel of Generations. Compared to the first tournament won by Timo BOLL there are some new players in the tournament due to the TTBL play-offs in the same week and smaller breaks for other players in week two among them the US shooting star Kanak JHA as well as several youth national players. The future TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen player JHA is placed no.2 on the seeding list behind former World Cup winner Dimitrij OVTCHAROV who leads the field and ahead of Dang QIU. The Ecuadorian Alberto MINO surprisingly lost today as number four of the seedings against Hamms second league player Gerrit ENGEMANN. With Kay STUMPER Felix KÖHLER Tayler FOX and Tobias SÄLTZER four DTTB youth national team players also took part this time but paid their dues in the round of sixteen. “It’s an important experience to compete under these conditions. The current new normality is still very unusual – without spectators without noise. For the top players it is good competition training and for the youngsters it is important to gain experience. Both together make the Duesseldorf Masters so valuable” commented DTTB Sports Director Richard PRAUSE. The format which will be held almost weekly at the ARAG CenterCourt from June to August is intended to give the German national players the players of Borussia Duesseldorf and the players of the training group at the German Table Tennis Centre in the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia practical experience. Timo BOLL Dimitrij OVTCHAROV and Patrick FRANZISKA three of the world’s top players are among the general group of participants. Four cracks from the world’s top 50 as well as four more athletes from the top 100 make the Duesseldorf Masters the only tournament series of its kind in the world at this level. The tournament which is organized by Borussia Duesseldorf with the support of the DTTB will be held over two days in the first two weeks. From the third week of the tournament on the tournament will be played on three days. The Duesseldorf Masters will be played in a knock-out system with up to 16 participants. The series ends with a final tournament with eight professionals for which the athletes have to qualify or are admitted via a wildcard. All games of the Duesseldorf Masters will be broadcast live with several cameras on sportdeutschland.tv Borussia TV and tischtennis.de. Spectators on site are not allowed to watch the games in order to contain the corona pandemic. Duesseldorf Masters 2. Tournament Monday 8. June 2020 Best 16 Tobias Hippler (6) – Felix Köhler 3:0 (5 7 4) Dang Qiu (3) – Kirill Fadeev 3:0 (3 6 3) Alberto Mino (4) – Gerrit Engemann 1:3 (13 -9 -6 -14) Fanbo Meng (7) – Tobias Sältzer 3:0 (2 5 7) Dimitrij Ovtcharov (1) – Nils Hohmeier 3:0 (8 2 9) Steffen Mengel (5) – Kay Stumper 3:0 (8 12 6) Kanak Jha (2) – Tayler Fox 3:0 (5 7 2) Cedric Meissner (8) – Thomas Keinath 3:1 (10 -9 8 5) Tuesday 9. June 2020 Quarter Finals Fanbo Meng (7) – Gerrit Engemann 9.30 Dang Qiu (3) – Cedric Meissner (8) not before 10.05 Dimitrij Ovtcharov (1) – Tobias Hippler (6) not before 10.40 Kanak Jha (2) – Steffen Mengel (5) not before 11.15 Semi Finals Fanbo Meng (7) or Gerrit Engemann – Dang Qiu (3) or Cedric Meissner (8) not before 11.50 Dimitrij Ovtcharov (1) or Tobias Hippler (6) – Kanak Jha (2) or Steffen Mengel (5) not before 12.25 Final 45-60 Minutes after 2nd Semi Final but not before 13.45 Dimitri Ovtcharov“I trained a lot last week and I hope to improve this week. I played a solid first match even if my performance is certainly still capable of improvement”. Kanak Jha“I’m happy to have won my first match. It’s been a long time since I played a match so it was important to be in good mental shape. I won and I hope I can do that again tomorrow.” Dang Qiu“I think we’re a little bit prepared for the tournament and the game-like competition now in the second week. It is a good thing for us. Anyway it feels better now than last week and we’ll see what the week holds.” Steffen Mengel“I came in a little heavy like last week. But at the last tournament I was able to improve a lot on day two and I hope that it will be the same this time.” Tobias Hippler“The situation is of course a bit different without spectators than when you play in the second league or on the Pro Tour when the hall is full. Nevertheless it’s good to have competitions again and when the season starts again you’re already used to it. Maybe it was a little easier for me this week because when I play well against Felix I usually win the game and then I know I can
Ovtcharov is the number-1-seed Jha 2nd at the Düsseldorf Masters Part 2
After the successful premiere of the new tournament series “Düsseldorf Masters“ with Timo BOLL as the winner the series will continue with the part 2 on Monday and Tuesday 8/9 June. Compared to the first tournament there will be a great number of new players due to the Bundesleague play-offs in the same week including USA’s number 1 Kanak Jha as well as some members of the German national youth team like the winner of the 2019 Europe Youth Top 10 Kay STUMPER. TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen’s future player JHA is the 2nd seed after former World Cup champion Dimitrij OVTCHAROV. DANG Qiu and Ecuadorian Alberto MINO are the numbers 3 and 4 of the seeding list. The opening match on Monday at 9:30 a.m. will Tobias HIPPLER versus Felix KÖHLER. After that all further matches of the 1st round will be played „followed by” on Monday. The quarter finals and semi finals as well as the final on take place on Tuesday. The series which will be held almost weekly at the ARAG CenterCourt from June to August is intended to give the German national players the players of Borussia Düsseldorf and the players of the training group at the German Table Tennis Centre in the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia Düsseldorf match practice. The tournament which is organized by Borussia Düsseldorf with the support of the DTTB will be held over two days in the first two weeks. From the third week of the tournament on the Düsseldorf Masters will be played on three days. The format is a knock-out system with up to 16 participants. The series ends with a final tournament with 8 players for which the athletes have to qualify or are admitted through a wildcard. All matches of the Düsseldorf Masters will be broadcasted live with 3 cameras on sportdeutschland.tv Borussia TV and tischtennis.de. Spectators on site are not allowed because of the corona pandemic. Düsseldorf Masters 2nd tournament Round of 16 Monday 8 June 2020 (in chronological order) Tobias HIPPLER (6) – Felix KÖHLER 9.30 a.m. DANG Qiu (3) – Kirill FADEEV followed by but not before 10.00 Alberto MINO (4) – Gerrit ENGEMANN followed by but not before 10.30 Fanbo MENG (7) – Tobias SÄLTZER followed by but not before 11.00 Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (1) – Nils HOHMEIER followed by but not before 11.30 Steffen MENGEL (5) – Kay STUMPER followed by but not before 12.00 Kanak JHA (2) – Tayler FOX followed by but not before 12.30 Cedric MEISSNER (8) – Thomas KEINATH followed by but not before 13.00 Tuesday June 9 Quarter-finals starting at 9.30 a.m. Semifinal Final 45 to 60 minutes following the 2nd semi-final
Saarbrücken TT stars tied the score
Five days before the important Bundesliga semifinal 1. FC Saarbrücken TT tried to get familiar with the new conditions. Corona break dictated new rules and measures so the club responded with the tournament under new regulations in order to be prepared for the following big clashes. Two teams were formed to compete against each other to adjust to the new situation after the Corona break:Patrick FRANZISKA and SHANG Kun played against Darko JORGIC and former Saarbrücken player Cedric NUYTINCK. After nice rallies and close “best of three” matches the score was tied at 2 singles each. The first single match was played between former Chinese international SHANG Kun and current Belgium number 1 Cedric NUYTINCK. NUYTINCK secured the 2:1 victory in the first match before Patrick FRANZISKA equaled the match with a 2:1 against his Slovenian opponent Darko JORGIC. In the third singles it was Darko JORGIC who beat SHANG Kun in straight games to put his team in the lead. The pressure was now on the German national player Patrick to reach a draw in this friendly match. In the semi final of the Bundesliga play offs leader after regular part of the season after 21 round had been played is 1. FC Saarbrücken-TT. They will meet fourth team at the standings SV Werder Bremen. Borussia Düsseldorf will play against TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen. In Table Tennis Champions League Men 1. FC Saarbrücken-TT beat Post SV Mühlhausen 1951 e.V. in quarters to join Borussia Düsseldorf Fakel Gazprom Orenburg and TTSC UMMC before the competition was finished. Shang Kun/Patrick Franziska – Cedric Nuytinck/Darko Jorgic 2:2 Shang Kun – Cedric Nuytinck 1:2 (-7 3 -9) Patrick Franziska – Darko Jorgic 2:1 (6 -8 8) Shang Kun – Darko Jorgic 0:2 (-6 -8) Patrick Franziska – Cedric Nuytinck 2:1 (9 -10 10) Interviews here. Video on demand here.
2vs2-Cup -heat up for Semis in Bundesliga
Saarbrücken will organize the 2vs2-Cup today at 11 am and you can follow it live on sportdeutchland.tv and you can follow it here . The players on duty will be Saarbrücken’s top guns SHANG Kun Patrick FRANZISKA and Darko JORGIC while on the playing list is also Cedric NUYTINCK who played for Saarbrücken some years ago before he moved to French club HENNEBONT. “This „match“ is a preparation for our semifinal match in German Bundesliga. We want to test the new rules and let the players play a competition before we play the semifinals on next Wednesday against Werder Bremen ” explained Marketing Manager Nicolas BARROIS. Lineup: Shang Kun – Nuytinck Franziska – Jorgic Shang Kun – Jorgic Franziska – Nuytinck
Natalia BAJOR and BADOWSKI won LOTTO Superliga Cup
Polish Table Tennis Association organized a promotional table tennis tournament in a completely new formula based on the principles known from T2 Diamond. The event was stage at TVP Sport channel. Natalia BAJOR from AZS UE Wrocław won Women’s Event. Marek BADOWSKI from Bogoria Dartom Grodzisk Mazowiecki proved to be the best among men. Tournament gathered 10 players 8 from the LOTTO Super League the top men’s league in Poland and 2 from the Ekstraklasa League the top women’s league. Natalia BAJOR Paulina KRZYSIEK Maciej KUBIK Tomasz LEWANDOWSKI Marek BADOWSKI Samuel KULCZYCKI WANG Zeng Yi Pavel SIRUCEK and Qiyao HAN were on duty in the venue. Games lasted only ten minutes 5 minutes long halves with one minute break. When the time was over player with the most points become the winner. New version of table tennis turned out to be a great idea. Either players and table tennis fans who watched games in TV said it was a great sport show. Over 50.000 people watch the live broadcast of the LOTTO Superliga Cup. Tournament lasted over 2 5 hours. In addition to tournament games viewers could also see the show of Lucjan BŁASZCZYK and his colleague Norbert STOLICKI who showed that to practice table tennis you do not always need professional equipment. They proved that you can play table tennis wherever and whatever you want even using frying pan or iron. “PTTA and TVP Sport channel cooperation is a great way to promote table tennis in Poland. We hope that in the future we will be able to organize similar events – brace yourselves SPEED TABLE TENNIS is coming ” announced Marketing and Promotion Specialist Marcin FREJ. Link to the tournament video
