Tonight after the Juniors Team Finals at the STAG 2018 European Youth Championships Romanian Table Tennis Federation invites you to join us at the Zoli Toth Project’s concert and the team award ceremonies. Please be part of the Table Tennis Family that will celebrate the champions in Polyvalent Hall in Cluj Napoca. Let’s celebrate together!
Korea United at 2018 ITTF Korea Open
The North & South Korean unified pairs have successfully made their debut at the Seamaster 2018 ITTF World Tour Platinum Shinhan Korea Open that officially went underway today 19 July 2018 in Daejeon (KOR). The reunification which came as part of the ITTF Foundation’s Ping Pong Diplomacy programme to support solidarity through table tennis was well received by the media and the local Korean crowd as they cheered on the North & South Korean players in unity waving the Unified Korea flag. The unified Korean pairs of LEE Sangsu (KOR) / PAK Sinhyok (PRK) KIM Song I (PRK) / SUH Hyowon (KOR) JANG Woojin (KOR) / CHA Hyo Sim (PRK) and CHOE Il (PRK) / YOO Eunchong (KOR) were all successful in making their way through 2 days of qualification to make the main draw. JANG stated after navigating through a tough Round of 16draw with his partner CHA “At first I was quite nervous and did not do as well as I hoped. Hyo Sim encouraged me and helped by taking the lead. It helped me relax and I managed to play better after that. It was nice playing with her as a team.” In another wonderful mixed doubles match the pair of PAK Sinhyok and KIM Nam Hae (PRK) topped the number one seeds Mima ITO and Masataka MORIZONO in 5 games to make the quarterfinals. The upset watched by the mass of fans cheering the Korean teams on. Main draw action had begun with the doubles events being played out in the morning. However there is a lot more action to come in the afternoon with the commencement of the singles events. The Shinhan Korea Open will see the return of world number four Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (GER) after his injury break that caused him to miss the action from the three ITTF World Tour events in Hong Kong China and Japan after the Liebherr 2018 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Halmstad earlier in May. The top seed will face off with France’s Enzo ANGLES in the round of 32 and is due to meet Rio 2016 Olympic bronze medallist Jun MIZUTANI (JPN) in the next round if things went according to seeding. Reigning World & Olympic Champion DING Ning will be looking to fight her way back to the top of the ITTF World Ranking after seeing her ranking fell due to inactivity on the international table tennis scene. The current world number 12 will be playing against Portugal’s YU Fu later today in the round of 32. The Seamaster 2018 ITTF World Tour Platinum Shinhan Korea Open is the fourth of six Platinum events on the ITTF World Tour which is the top tier of the ITTF World Tour with the most prize money and world ranking points. Together with the six regular ITTF World Tour events players compete to earn World Tour Standings points qualify for the singles doubles and mixed doubles events at the one-million-dollar World Tour Grand Finals in December. Main draw action for the Shinhan Korea Open begins today 19 July 2018 with Mixed Doubles Final being played on Saturday 21 July and the remaining four Finals (Women’s Doubles Men’s Doubles Women’s Singles & Men’s Singles) Champions being crowned on Sunday 22 July 2018. Quick Links: Seamaster 2018 ITTF World Tour Platinum Shinhan Korea Open Daily Schedule & Results Media Kit Flash Quotes Photos for Editorial Use
Cyprus hosted 51 players in summer camp
During the period of 7th to 12th July 2018 the Cyprus Table Tennis Association in cooperation and support of the European Table Tennis Union and through the development program had organized a training camp for young players. The training camp was organized in a beautiful mountain resort in Cyprus which has excellent climate and training conditions. The multiple indoor stadium “Glafkos Klerides” was used in which 24 table tennis tables was placed equipped with training robots for the cadet players. The ETTU supported the Cyprus Table Tennis Association by sending a Head Coach of the camping Mr. Zoltan Batorfi from Hungary who along with other Cypriot coaches organized the whole camping including the training schedule and the education of the Cypriot coaches. During the training camp 51 kids took place aged from 8 to 18 years old 13 girls and 38 boys. The training camps was a total success and the Cyprus Table Tennis Association expressed their gratitude to the head coach and his assistants as well as to ETTU for their great support.
KATSMAN pushed Russia to the final
2018 STAG European Youth Championships In epic battle Russia reached the final of the Junior Boys Teams Event. By doing so they inflicted the pain in the harts of the host nation supporters. Romania failed to reach the ultimate stage. France is the second finalist. They accounted for Germany. Lev KATSMAN was the backbone of Russia’s success with two wins over Rares SIPOS and Cristian PLETEA. Maksim GREBNEV joined him whilst Vladimir SIDORENKO failed to score against neither of top Romania’s players. In the quarters Romania kept crowd at the edge of their seats in the match against Belgium. Olav KOSOLOSKY put some extra pressure on host team by beating Cristian PLETEA but Rares SIPOS leveled in the duel against Laurens DEVOS. Dragos OPREA added another point and PLETEA beat DEVOS in the fourth match. ”We feel good now after having qualified further but I think we could have played better than that. I hope we will come back in full speed for the rest of the tournament. There weren’t big problems so far but maybe we expected to play better than we did” said Rares SIPOS. “I feel ready for the next match. I am happy that Dragos had a good come back and won. It is very good for the team.” In same stage Russia’s KATSMAN SIDORENKO and GREBNEV prevailed by same margin against Italy’s Matteo MUTTI Carlo ROSSI and Gabriele ICIULIN. Azerbaijan was halted after tremendous effort from France. Irvin BERTRAND Bastien REMBERT and Lilian BARDET secured 3:2 victory. Against Germany they needed one match less. It was STUMPER who scored for German side only. In quarters Germany prevailed against Greece after long distance thriller. Ioannis SGOUROPOULOS won both his matches against Kay STUMPER and MENG Fanbo but other could not follow. STUMPER and and MENG Fanbo beat Ioannis DAMIANIS whilst Cedric MEISSNER overcame Michail DIAMANTOPOULOS. “The match was amazing. We won and we are very happy that we will go further. The next match is going to be quite interesting we are very focused and we will fight all together. We hope to pass it further till the finals with no problems” said MENG Fanbo. Quick links ETTU EYC page Organiser’s web site ETTU on Facebook ETTU On Instagram ETTU on Twitter
KATSMAN pushed Russia to the final
2018 STAG European Youth Championships In epic battle Russia reached the final of the Junior Boys Teams Event. By doing so they inflicted the pain in the harts of the host nation supporters. Romania failed to reach the ultimate stage. France is the second finalist. They accounted for Germany. Lev KATSMAN was the backbone of Russia’s success with two wins over Rares SIPOS and Cristian PLETEA. Maksim GREBNEV joined him whilst Vladimir SIDORENKO failed to score against neither of top Romania’s players. In the quarters Romania kept crowd at the edge of their seats in the match against Belgium. Olav KOSOLOSKY put some extra pressure on host team by beating Cristian PLETEA but Rares SIPOS leveled in the duel against Laurens DEVOS. Dragos OPREA added another point and PLETEA beat DEVOS in the fourth match. ”We feel good now after having qualified further but I think we could have played better than that. I hope we will come back in full speed for the rest of the tournament. There weren’t big problems so far but maybe we expected to play better than we did” said Rares SIPOS. “I feel ready for the next match. I am happy that Dragos had a good come back and won. It is very good for the team.” In same stage Russia’s KATSMAN SIDORENKO and GREBNEV prevailed by same margin against Italy’s Matteo MUTTI Carlo ROSSI and Gabriele ICIULIN. Azerbaijan was halted after tremendous effort from France. Irvin BERTRAND Bastien REMBERT and Lilian BARDET secured 3:2 victory. Against Germany they needed one match less. It was STUMPER who scored for German side only. In quarters Germany prevailed against Greece after long distance thriller. Ioannis SGOUROPOULOS won both his matches against Kay STUMPER and MENG Fanbo but other could not follow. STUMPER and and MENG Fanbo beat Ioannis DAMIANIS whilst Cedric MEISSNER overcame Michail DIAMANTOPOULOS. “The match was amazing. We won and we are very happy that we will go further. The next match is going to be quite interesting we are very focused and we will fight all together. We hope to pass it further till the finals with no problems” said MENG Fanbo. Quick links ETTU EYC page Organiser’s web site ETTU on Facebook ETTU On Instagram ETTU on Twitter
draw for the ETTU Cup
Draw for the Men’s ETTU Cup The draw for the ETTU Cup was conducted today in Cluj Napoca during the 2018 STAG European Youth Championships. In Men’s ETTU Cup the first group stage starts at 29th30thof September; 18 clubs are divided in four groups. In Group A the host will be Logis Auderghem TT of Belgium. There will play also t.t.v. Hercules 1 from Netherlands Türk Telekom Ankara Sport Club from Turkey STK Libertas Marinkolor from Croatia and CE MSC TENNIS ACADEMY SCC Sumy from Ukraine. In Group B the host is Ping Pong Club Villeneuvois from France. There will travel Dutch Itass DTK’70 Divapan SC from Turkey GDCS Juncal of Portuga and Sarkuysan Spor Kulübü also from Turkey. DT Echternach will host clubs in Group C in Luxembourg. Spanish Fundación Cajasol Hispalis will be top rated club in the group where will play also ASD Marcozzi Cagliari of Italy and Portugal’s G.D.D Toledos. Romania’s CSS-FSK Odorheiu Secuiesc will host SF SKK El Nino Praha of Czech Republic Clube Desportivo Sao Roque of Portugal and TT Vedrinamur of Belgium. The winners and runners up will progress to the second stage scheduled for 20th21stOctober 2018. In Group A will play two clubs Spanish Cajasur Priego TM and A.D. Vincios. In Group B Portugal’s ADC Ponta Do Pargo – Calheta and Universidad De Burgos from Spain. In Group C will be Ukraine’s TT Team Poltava and Spanish Borges Vall. In Group D will be Slovakia’s SK Vydrany and Russia’s TTSC “UMMC-ELEM”. In third round top 8 clubs are: Chartres ASTT of France Istres Tennis de Table of France Fortune Kyiv of Ukraine STK Starr Varazdin of Croatia DeBoer Taverzo of Netherlands TTC Sokah Hoboken of Belgium Fenerbahce Sport Club of Turkey and Leka Enea TDM of Spain. Women’s ETTU Cups starts also in September. In group A the host and then top seed is TT Vedrinamur of Belgium. There will also play Sparvägen TTC from Sweden Yalova Belediye Genclik Spor Kulübü from Turkey and ASEA Sarises Florinas from Greece. In Group B is C.T.T. Minerois host and top seed. Minerois will welcome A.S. Polemidia from Cyprus A.S.D. Tennistavolo Norbello and AO Foinikas AG.Sofias of Greece. In Group C top[ seed is DT Nidderkäerjeng followed by Dutch Dozy Den Helder/Noordkop and ADC Ponta do Pargo – Calheta of Portugal. The host is G.D. Dos Toledos also from Portugal. In Group D is Spanish CTT Balaguer Villart Logistic Hillerød G.I. Bordtennis of Denmark TTV Lybrae Heerlen and host TTC Rapid Luzern of Switzerland. In second stage will play in Group A GDCS Do Juncal of Portugal and Hotel-Museo Patria Chica Priego TM of Spain alongside two clubs coming from Stage one. In Group B are Spanish Leka Enea Tenis de Mesa and TT Dinez of Belgium. In Group C DT Roodt-Syre of Luxembourg and Spanish Arteal Tenis de Mesa. In Group D will play TT Moravsky Krumlov of Czech Republic and Tigem Spor Club of Turkey. Direct qualifiers in Round three are: French ALCL TT Grand-Quevilly Croatia’s STK Aquaestil Duga Resa French CP Lyssois Lille Métropole Russia’s “TMK-TAGMET” Taganrog Austria’s TTC Villach Turkey’s Fenerbahce Sport Club Spanish Tecnigen Linares and Russia’s TTC Kazan.
Cadet Girls keep the Romania’s flag high
2018 STAG European Youth Championships Romania’s Cadet Girls booked their place in the final of the 2018 STAG European Youth Championships in Cluj Napoca. In the semi final they overcame France. In other semis Russia prevailed against Serbia. Reigning champions showed no mercy in the quarterfinals. Arina SLAUTINA Elizabet ABRAAMIAN and Liubov TENTSER overcame Natalia and Vitalina BRINZA of Moldova. “It was a good game and a good fight – it was not an easy match. We are reigning champions and we want to repeat the result. We are feeling good and we are ready for everything ” said ABRAAMIAN. Latter against Serbia they repeated the straight matches victory. ABRAAMIAN showed no mercy but SLAUTINA was under severe pressure against Radmila TOMINJAK. Serbia and Lithuania were in charge for the longest match in the quarters. Reka BEZEG and Radmila TOMINJAK were 0:2 down against Emilija and Kornelija RILISKYTE before they recovered to win. BEZEG sealed decisive game of the fifth match 13:11. In quarters France also needed five matches to beat Germany. Prithika PAVADE won both her singles whilst on the other side Sophia KLEE in singles and in doubles with Leonie BERGER collected two points for Germany. Charlotte LUTZ won third for France. “The game was amazing. They had a 2-1 lead but after this we made 2 fantastic games with a lot of intensity. We just fought until the end. We have been through a lot of emotions during this game: stress happiness determination ” said Pavade PRITHIKA. Romania overcame Poland in the morning session. Luciana MITROFAN and Elena ZAHARIA finished their work in straight matches against Elzbieta KWIATKOWSKA and Anna BRZYSKA. “This match was an intense one. The girls from Poland had different materials like grass sandwich and for me it was quite difficult because I don’t like these surfaces. We have reached our objective which was to win a meda ” said Elena ZAHARIA. Against France they also needed only three matches. Only in doubles host nation representatives were forced to go full distance. “We are very happy to be in the final. I knew that we can do it and that we will succeed but we didn’t expect to win with 3-0. It was a very intense match.We are very well prepared and ready for the final. The final with Russia will be a very difficult one in my opinion because there is Abraamian which is the favorite no. one and a very strong opponent. So it is for the other girls from the team but we feel that we will succeed ” said ZAHARIA. Quick links ETTU EYC page Organiser’s web site ETTU on Facebook ETTU On Instagram ETTU on Twitter
France vs. Belgium in match for gold
2018 STAG European Youth Championships Defending champions team of Russia failed to reach the final of the Cadet Boys Teams Event. France overcame Russia in the semis and tomorrow will play against Belgium in the match for gold. “It will not be an easy one but we will give everything to get the gold medal ” said Myshaal SAHBI. Myshaal SABHI and Fabio RAKOTOARIMANANA needed four matches to overcame Russia’s Vladislav MAKAROV Denis IZUMRUDOV and Sergey RYZHOV. SABHI lost to IZUMURUDOV but recovered to score in doubles and in second singles match. Top seeded France previously prevailed against Slovakia. Myshaal SABHI and Fabio RAKOTOARIMANANA overcame Adam KLAJBER and Filip DELINCAK. They lost only one match – in doubles. “Today it was not easy but we won and I am happy now. We didn’t have more pressure but when you are in quarter final you want to have the medal. When we were down we just continued to fight but even so we didn’t change our way to play said Sabhi MYSHAAL. Fabio RAKOTOARIMANANA added: “The game against Slovakia started good but the second one mine was complicated and I won eventually with 11-9. I had to fight and be focused. We lost the doubles and we were frustrated because we were better and stronger.” Belgium was forced to go full distance in the quarterfinal match against Ukraine. Their adversaries had a better start. Valentyn YUNCHYK beat Nicolas DEGROS but he also prevailed against Adrien RASSENFOSSE. However Andrii GREBENIUK could not keep his rhythm and lost both encounters. Against Poland in the semis they were stretched to full distance once again. Adrien RASSENFOSSE won both his matches and helped Adrien in Doubles. In quarterfinal Russia’s Vladislav MAKAROV and Denis IZUMRUDOV with a help in doubles from Sergey RYZHOV secured victory over Croatia’s Ivor BAN Filip BOROVNJAK and Lovro ZOVKO. In the same round Poland’s Maciej KUBIK Szymon KOLASA overcame Mike HOLLO and Hannes HOERMANN of Germany. Quick links ETTU EYC page Organiser’s web site ETTU on Facebook ETTU On Instagram ETTU on Twitter
France vs. Belgium in match for gold
2018 STAG European Youth Championships Defending champions team of Russia failed to reach the final of the Cadet Boys Teams Event. France overcame Russia in the semis and tomorrow will play against Belgium in the match for gold. “It will not be an easy one but we will give everything to get the gold medal ” said Myshaal SAHBI. Myshaal SABHI and Fabio RAKOTOARIMANANA needed four matches to overcame Russia’s Vladislav MAKAROV Denis IZUMRUDOV and Sergey RYZHOV. SABHI lost to IZUMURUDOV but recovered to score in doubles and in second singles match. Top seeded France previously prevailed against Slovakia. Myshaal SABHI and Fabio RAKOTOARIMANANA overcame Adam KLAJBER and Filip DELINCAK. They lost only one match – in doubles. “Today it was not easy but we won and I am happy now. We didn’t have more pressure but when you are in quarter final you want to have the medal. When we were down we just continued to fight but even so we didn’t change our way to play said Sabhi MYSHAAL. Fabio RAKOTOARIMANANA added: “The game against Slovakia started good but the second one mine was complicated and I won eventually with 11-9. I had to fight and be focused. We lost the doubles and we were frustrated because we were better and stronger.” Belgium was forced to go full distance in the quarterfinal match against Ukraine. Their adversaries had a better start. Valentyn YUNCHYK beat Nicolas DEGROS but he also prevailed against Adrien RASSENFOSSE. However Andrii GREBENIUK could not keep his rhythm and lost both encounters. Against Poland in the semis they were stretched to full distance once again. Adrien RASSENFOSSE won both his matches and helped Adrien in Doubles. In quarterfinal Russia’s Vladislav MAKAROV and Denis IZUMRUDOV with a help in doubles from Sergey RYZHOV secured victory over Croatia’s Ivor BAN Filip BOROVNJAK and Lovro ZOVKO. In the same round Poland’s Maciej KUBIK Szymon KOLASA overcame Mike HOLLO and Hannes HOERMANN of Germany. Quick links ETTU EYC page Organiser’s web site ETTU on Facebook ETTU On Instagram ETTU on Twitter
Defending champions Russia booked another final
2018 STAG European Youth Championships In the final of the Junior Girls Teams Event at the 2018 STAG European Youth Championships defending champion Russia will play against Azerbaijan tomorrow. In the match for bronze medal France will meet Romania. Russia booked their ticket to the final in express way. Anastasia KOLISH Mariia TAILAKOVA and Kristina KAZANTSEVA prevailed in three matches against Andreea DRAGOMAN Tania PLAIAN and Andreea HUDASAN. “We are very glad that we managed to reach one of our objective to take a medal but unfortunately we didn’t manage to pass Russia. Even so we need to keep going with the head up as always and we will get ready for the next rounds ”said PLAIAN. Previously after five matches thriller in the quarterfinal Romania secured the medal in the match against Serbia. “Tania PLAIAN is the hero of the match. He won the decisive match against Tijana JOKIC ” pointed Andreea DRAGOMAN. DRAGOMAN beat also Tijana JOKIC but none of top players managed to overcame Sabina SURJAN who is still unbeaten in Cluj Napoca. Andreea HUDASAN also showed brave effort and beat Andjela MENGER to create better opportunity for her team. “I feel very happy because I am at home and also I am happy because we managed to preserve our tradition and win the medal in Junior Girls Event as every year. We stayed very focused until the end. I felt very good and it was nice feeling to play in front of fully packed tribunes with home crowd. We had support from the spectators and tactically we played very well ” said PLAIAN. In the quarters Russia started on a wrong track; Anna WEGRZYN beat Anastasia KOLISH. However Mariia TAILAKOVA showed no mercy today. She beat both Anna and Katarzyna WEGRZYN. Kristina KAZANTSEVA was stretched to full distance before she overcame Aleksandra MICHALAK. In the same round Azerbaijan’s NING Jing CHEN Xingtai and ZHOU Chuyi prevailed against Anastasia BONDAREVA Franziska SCHREINER Laura TIEFENBRUNNER of Germany. Only TIEFENBRUNNER scored from the German side. In the semis only Isa COK recorded victory against Azerbaijan’s player. NING Jing and CHEN Xingti showed no weak points. In quarterfinal Tatiana KUKULKOVA of Slovakia won one match against Leili MOSTAFAVI but Lucie GAUTHIER and Isa COK prevented any further surprises. Quick links ETTU EYC page Organiser’s web site ETTU on Facebook ETTU On Instagram ETTU on Twitter
