Reigning Men`s ECL champion AS Pontoise Cergy made a vigorously start of 2014/15 season defeating at home six times champion of Denmark Roskilde Bordtennis 3:0. It could say that French side beat former European champions having in mind that Roskilde`s Reigning Men`s ECL champion AS Pontoise Cergy made a vigorously start of 2014/15 season defeating at home six times champion of Denmark Roskilde Bordtennis 3:0. It could say that French side beat former European champions having in mind that Roskilde`s trio Michael MAZE Finn TUGWELL and Allan BENTSEN reached gold on 2005 European Championship at Aarhus as Danish national team. Marcos FREITAS pushed his side to the victory defeating Finn TUGWELL in four games. World`s no. 12 lost opening set but easily won next three. Former Charleroi`s WANG Jian Jun secured maybe crucial point to the host prevailed Michael MAZE in four sets. Roskilde’s calculation in MECL is clear: they need 2009 individual European champion in a good mood to have a chance to surprise such good team s Pontoise is. Dan currently no. 28 on ITTF list was mostly equal with Chinese during the encounter but two out of three narrowly sets belonged to the host. Kristian KARLSSON provided fast win for the champions. He was better than experienced Allan BENTSEN defeating him in straight games. GROUP A Round 1: AS Pontoise Cergy – Roskilde Bordtennis BTK61 3:0 Marcos FREITAS – Finn TUGWELL 3:1 (7:11 11:5 11:3 11:8) WANG Jian Jun – Michael MAZE 3:1 (12:14 13:11 11:7 12:10) Kristian KARLSSON – Allan BENTSEN 3:0 (11:9 11:8 11:8)
It’s all downhill for Orenburg
Fakel Gazproma Orenburg has been delivered the present they promised Gazprom company’s to employees for the Gasmen`s Day (September 7th). The Russian table tennis champion beat Polish Olimpia Unia Grudziadz 3:0 in opening game of MECL Group A but g Fakel Gazproma Orenburg has been delivered the present they promised Gazprom company’s to employees for the Gasmen`s Day (September 7th). The Russian table tennis champion beat Polish Olimpia Unia Grudziadz 3:0 in opening game of MECL Group A but guests lined up just two available players. The best ranked MECL player Dimitrij OVTCHAROV actual individual European champion defeated Bartosz SUCH in straight games. World`s no. 5 went smoothly until the late third set when guest managed to save one set ball. Ten times MECL champion Vladimir SAMSONOV had some problems with young defender WANG Yang who won first set. But after that Bielorussian led the play starting by 7:0 in second set. One of biggest European prospects Patryk ZATOWKA was not able to play against host Alexey SMIRNOV. The 17 year-old Polish boy actual no. 33 on World U 18 ranking list (4th European) was not fully recovered of injury which suffered on recent 2014 Youth Olympic Games at Nanjing. One more problem for Olimpia Unia was that they arrived to Orenburg without HUANG Sheng-Sheng (Chinese Taipei) as he couldn`t obtain the Russian visa on time. GROUP A Round 1: Fakel Gazproma Orenburg – Olimpia Unia Grudziadz 3:0 Dimitrij OVTCHAROV – Bartosz SUCH 3:0 (11:9 11:5 12:10) Vladimir SAMSONOV – WANG Yang 3:1 (9:11 11:2 11:5 14:12) Alexey SMIRNOV – Patryk ZATOWKA 3:0 (11:0 11:0 11:0)
Almeria: Russia in five finals
Semi finals were on the schedule today on the penultimate day of the competition at the first European Veterans Team Championships in Almeira. Teams from Russia booked five out of six finals. The only one they missed is in the men’s 60-64 category. In th Semi finals were on the schedule today on the penultimate day of the competition at the first European Veterans Team Championships in Almeira. Teams from Russia booked five out of six finals. The only one they missed is in the men’s 60-64 category. In the Women 40 – 59 Category Russia’s Spartak Moscow with Marina VASILYEVA Larisa LAVRUKHINA and Elena CHUNIKHINA beat Latvia 1 in straight matches whilst Bulgaria’s Svilhosa with Svetlana KIRYAKOVA Mariela FILIPOVA FLOROVA and Marieta GEORGIEVA overcame Chorvatsky Grob from Slovakia. The winners will play in tomorrow’s final. So far Spartak is unbeaten at the Championships whilst Bulgarian side recoreded there defeaits in group stages all by 1:2. In Men’s 40-49 Russia 1 with Sergei SAVELEV Aleksandr SAVELEV and Georgii RUBINSHTEIN beat French Royan. They succeeded in all matches in straight matches. In the final Russia will play against Stockholm S-Blommor from Sweden with Lars MATTISON Vahdin OKIC and Per MATTISON. Stocholm overcame Belgium’s Paulipo. In Men’s 50-59 Russia 50-59 with Igor MIGALOV Igor ROLDUGIN and Sergei MANTUROV overcame CTT Vilafranca to reach the ultimate stage. They also preserved straight record. In other semi final Russia’s Rodina with with Aleksandr ELINSON Aleksei Rodin and Vladimir TUDVASEV beat Silinis team of Latvia. In men 60-64 Spanish Sanse Coruna with Francisco Jose GONZALEZ Luis GARCIA and Migue MALDONADO overcame CTM Fuengirola also from Spain. Karpaty of Ukraine with Grygory POTOPLYAK Anatoli KOSTENKO and Zinovjy DEMKO beat Spanish Coslada. In Men 65-69 Russia 2 with Gmyra Kaplan GENNADY Felix KAPLAN Vladimir STOLNIKOV beat Catmad De Barcelona whilst Spanish Assoc. VET. BCN with Juan REDON Ricard PALAU and Jaume PUIG overcame Estonia. In this category final is already played. The winner is Russia. They beat Spanish team in straight matches. In men 70-79 Nikolay BOLSHOV Dmitry DAVYDENKO and Anatoliy ZUBRIN in team of Russia secured the final after victory over CTM El Alamo whilst Russia 70-74 with Evgeny TATAMIKOV Victor VIRYASOV and Oleg SILITSKIY overcame Los Novatos from Spain The link for pictures of the EVTC 2014 here
ECL returns live on ETTU TV powered by LAOLA1.tv
The best 16 European clubs will participate in 2014/15 Men’s European Champions League and after five European finals in last five seasons and three titles Orenburg aims to return on the top. Eight women’s clubs will compete again divided in two g The best 16 European clubs will participate in 2014/15 Men’s European Champions League and after five European finals in last five seasons and three titles Orenburg aims to return on the top. Eight women’s clubs will compete again divided in two groups and everybody will try to beat TTC Berlin Eastside the club who collected all possible trophies in last season. Five great matches from the men’s and women’s tournaments will be broadcast LIVE and FREE on http://ettu.laola1.tv. Tune into ETTU TV powered by LAOLA1.tv for the best table tennis Europe has to offer! Friday 5th September 2014 | from 18:00 (CET) ETTU Women’s European Champions League KTS Zamek Tarnobrzeg – Szekszard AC: http://www.laola1.tv/watch/live/kts-zamek-tarnobrzeg-szekszard-ac/223479.html ETTU Men’s European Champions League Borussia Düsseldorf – Bogoria Grodzick Mazowiecki http://www.laola1.tv/watch/live/borussia-duesseldorf-bogoria-grodzick-mazowiecki/223695.html SV Werder Bremen – Eslovs AI Bordtennis http://www.laola1.tv/watch/live/sv-werder-bremen-eslovs-ai-bordtennis/223692.html 1.FC Saarbrücken – Sten Ostrov Havlickuv Brod http://www.laola1.tv/watch/live/1-fc-saarbruecken-sten-ostrov-havlickuv-brod/223478.html Saturday 6th September 2014 | 13:20 (CET) ETTU Men’s European Champions League Fakel Gazproma Orenburg – Olimpia Unia Grudziadz http://www.laola1.tv/watch/live/fakel-gazproma-orenburg-olimpia-unia-grudziadz/224644.html Watch all matches LIVE and FREE as well as full matches on demand on: http://ettu.laola1.tv
Niederosterreich makes Chartres crash
Four out of five tonight`s Round 1 games of 2014/15 Men`s European Champions League belonged to the host teams: Borussia Saarbrucken Werder and Hennebont. The honor of the guests Weinviertel Niederosterreich saved in superb style… What Werner SCHLAGER Four out of five tonight`s Round 1 games of 2014/15 Men`s European Champions League belonged to the host teams: Borussia Saarbrucken Werder and Hennebont. The honor of the guests Weinviertel Niederosterreich saved in superb style… What Werner SCHLAGER would say on that: Chartres ASTT – Weinviertel Niederosterreich 0:3 (1:9)? The 2008 Men`s ECL champion (with great SCHLAGER as leading player at that time) showed one of its best performances in this competition for years especially having in mind that it happened at home of 2013 MECL finalist (Chartres lost 2013 MECL final from Orenburg for just four points in total). Few seasons ago SCHLAGER finished his long and prominent career from this summer Niederosterreich can`t count on CHEN Weixing but the team reacted perfectly in France. Stefan FEGERL announced the big upset beating Singaporean GAO Ning in straight games. Newcomer of Austrian team HOU Yingchao followed his younger team-mate in same style defeating Robert GARDOS. Finally Daniel HABESOHN overcame Par GERELL in four sets. Chartres played in its strongest possible line-up which dominated in France and played one of important roles in last two MECL seasons (last year they were unbeatable in group stage but after that were disqualified due to regulation of MECL – It is not allowed to MECL players to participate in Chinese Super League and GAO Ning did it) After disappointing 2013/14 MECL season Borussia Dusseldorf made a super fast start by beating Bogoria 3:0 (9:0). Timo BOLL opened game against Daniel GORAK and after that two Borussia`s newcomers showed that club`s management did right decision signing them this summer. Patrick FRANZISKA overcame Korean OH Sang Eun who beat BOLL in group stage two years ago. Greek Panagiotis GIONIS the individual bronze medalist from the 2013 European Championship was too strong for Pawel FERTIKOVSKI. In other Group D meeting Hennebont beat new Austrian champion Walter Wels 3:0. Bastian STEGER showed on his first step in green jersey that is the good replacement for CHUANG Chih Yuan. German took two points for Werder Bremen who beat Eslov AI 3:1 in Round 1 of Group B. Third win came from Constantin CIOTI whilst XU Hui managed to level after two games defeating Adrian CRISAN in straight games. Saarbrucken also celebrates its newcomer after the 3:1 victory against STEN Marketing Ostrov. Portuguese Tiago APOLONIA former Ochsenhausen`s player won twice tonight. First he beat Robert SVENSSON in straight sets and in last game secured the win for German side when he overcame Tomas TREGLER. GROUP B Round 1: Chartres ASTT – Weinviertel Niederosterreich 0:3 GAO Ning – Stefan FEGERL 0:3 (7:11 9:11 3:11) Robert GARDOS – HOU Yingchao 0:3 (7:11 5:11 6:11) Par GERELL – Daniel HABESOHN 1:3 (5:11 11:5 4:11 4:11) GROUP B Round 1: Werder Bremen – Eslov AI 3:1 Bastian STEGER – Robert SVENSSON 3:0 (11:9 11:7 11:4) Adrian CRISAN – XU Hui 0:3 (2:11 9:11 10:12) Constantin CIOTI – Mattias OVERSJO 3:2 (11:6 13:15 11:8 15:17 12:10) Bastian STEGER – XU Hui 3:0 (11:7 13:11 11:8) GROUP C Round 1: 1 FC Saarbrucken – STEN Marketing HB Ostrov 3:1 Tiago APOLONIA – Petr KORBEL 3:0 (11:3 11:6 11:8) Adrien MATTENET – Tomas TREGLER 3:1 (11:9 11:6 4:11 11:5) Bojan TOKIC – Josef SIMONCIK 1:3 (5:11 11:13 11:6 7:11) Tiago APOLONIA – Tomas TREGLER 3:1 (11:6 9:11 11:5 11:8) GROUP D Round 1: Borussia Dusseldorf – Bogoria Grodzisk 3:0 Timo BOLL – Daniel GORAK 3:0 (11:7 11:3 11:9) Patrick FRANZISKA – OH Sang Eun 3:0 (11:8 11:8 12:10) Panagiotis GIONIS – Pawel FERTIKOWSKI 3:0 (11:8 11:6 11:4) GROUP D Round 1: GV Hennebont – SPG Walter Wels 3:0 CHEN Chien-An – Dominique PLATTNER 3:0 (11:6 11:5 11:8) Kalinikos KREANGA – Lehel DEMETER 3:2 (7:11 11:8 9:11 11:7 11:8) Quentin ROBINOT – Zolt PETE 3:1 (11:3 9:11 11:9 11:4)
Jun MIZUTANI relieves UMMC
Russian UMMC one of favorites in 2014/15 Men’s European Champions League beat Angers Vaillante 3:1 in Round 1 of Group C. The man of the match was Japanese Jun MIZUTANI who brought two points to the host side. In opening encounter Japanese defeated Benj Russian UMMC one of favorites in 2014/15 Men’s European Champions League beat Angers Vaillante 3:1 in Round 1 of Group C. The man of the match was Japanese Jun MIZUTANI who brought two points to the host side. In opening encounter Japanese defeated Benjamin BROSSIER in straight games. Just in last one guest had a small chance to do something more. The second clash was the interesting one taking five games. Alexander SHIBAEV managed to beat Jens LUNDQVIST thanks to good play in late fifth set. First two sets belonged to Russian but guest leveled. In decisive game when result was 6:6 SHIBAEV won three consecutive points to bring 2:0 lead for his side. Christophe LEGOUT surprised world’s no. 13 Joao MONTEIRO in four sets. Experienced Frenchman in all three sets that he won needed to reach more than 11 points. Finally MIZUTANI beat LUNDQVIST who again lost in five games. This time Swede had good situation after third set but Japanese dominated in last two sets losing just eight points in total. The 2014/15 MECL Group C Round 1: UMMC – Angers Vaillante 3:1 Jun MIZUTANI – Benjamin BROSSIER 3:0 (11:4 11:7 11:9) Alexander SHIBAEV – Jens LUNDQVIST 3:2 (11:8 11:5 6:11 7:11 11:8) Joao MONTEIRO – Christophe LEGOUT 1:3 (10:12 11:7 11:13 10:12) Jun MIZUTANI – Jens LUNDQVIST 3:2 (11:3 6:11 9:11 11:4 11:4)
Linz Zamek and Berlin started in style
Favorites fulfilled expectations in first two matches of 2014/15 Women`s European Champions League: Linz AG Froschberg – Metz TT 3:0 KTS Spar Zamek Tarnobrezeg – Szekszard AC 3:1 TTC Berlin Eastside – Postas Sport Egyesulet 3:0. The last fourth game of Favorites fulfilled expectations in first two matches of 2014/15 Women`s European Champions League: Linz AG Froschberg – Metz TT 3:0 KTS Spar Zamek Tarnobrezeg – Szekszard AC 3:1 TTC Berlin Eastside – Postas Sport Egyesulet 3:0. The last fourth game of Round 1 will be held on Sunday: Fenerbahce – SVNO STROCK (13h30 CET). Two times Women`s European Champions League winner Linz AG Froschberg left just three sets to its opponent. There was a chance to see two former individual champions of Old Continent in the actions in first two matches one on each side but just one was successful. Metz`s WU Jiaduo (2009 champion) lost from LI Xiaodan in straight games of opener while Linz`s LIU Jia (2005 ECH winner) actual no. 12 on ITTF World ranking list overcame FU Yu in four sets. In third encounter two youngest players showed the most interesting table tennis as Sofia POLCANOVA overcame Laura GASNIER in five games. Guest led twice but world`s no. 31 controlled fourth and fifth set. Regarding game in Poland main role belonged to a member of German national team HAN Ying (world`s no. 9) one of two Top 10 players on ITTF World ranking list who participate in 2014/15 WECL. She continued excellent performances from last season winning two matches against experienced and strong players. First one was Petra LOVAS (WECL champion with Berlin in 2012) and second was actual individual European champion LI Fen from Sweden. Reigning WECL champion Berlin Eastside confirmed its reputation against Hungarian team who returned in the competition after seven years. Individual vice-champion of Europe SHAN Xiaona beat Krisztina AMBRUS in opening game. Hungarian Georgina POTA who played very important role in last season`s triple crown continued in that style. Now she defeated two times individual champion of Old Continent LI Jiao in five sets. LI also has two WECL titles with Dutch Herlen. Berlin`s newcomer Petrissa SOLJA secured 3:0 victory to German squad beating Rita KERTAI in straight games. GROUP B Round 1: Linz AG Froschberg – Metz TT 3:0 LI Xiaodan – WU Jiaduo 3:0 (11:5 11:8 11:4) LIU Jia – FU Yu 3:1 (9:11 11:5 11:6 11:8) Sofia POLCANOVA – Laura GASNIER 3:2 (12:14 11:7 6:11 11:4 11:8) GROUP A Round 1: KTS Spar Zamek Tarnobrezeg – Szekszard AC 3:1 HAN Ying – Petra LOVAS 3:1 (9:11 11:6 11:8 12:10) Renata STRBIKOVA – LI Fen 2:3 (4:11 11:6 7:11 11:5 8:11) LI Qian – Alexa SZVITACS 3:0 (11:3 11:3 11:4) HAN Ying – LI Fen 3:0 (11:4 11:9 11:4) GROUP B Round 1: TTC Berlin Eastside – Postas Sport Egyesulet 3:0 SHAN Xiaona – Krisztina AMBRUS 3:1 (11:3 11:5 11:7) Georgina POTA – LI Jiao 3:2 (6:11 11:7 11:5 9:11 12:10) Petrissa SOLJA – Rita KERTAI 3:0 (11:2 11:6 11:7)
Teams reached semis in Almeria
The group phase of the competition at the first European Veterans Team Championships in Almeira concluded today. In the semi final of the Men’s 40-49 will play Russia 1 vs. Royan and Stockholm S-Blommor from Sweden will meet Belgium’s Paulipo 1. Russia re The group phase of the competition at the first European Veterans Team Championships in Almeira concluded today. In the semi final of the Men’s 40-49 will play Russia 1 vs. Royan and Stockholm S-Blommor from Sweden will meet Belgium’s Paulipo 1. Russia recorded three victories in Group A all in straight matches. In that group Belgium’s representative exceeded the rankings and booked second position despite being seeded at the bottom in the group. In Group B Stockholm S-Blommor justified their rankings but French side beat Turbo Moscow to steal their position. In Men’s 50-59 semifinal pairs are :Russia vs. CTT Vilafranca of Spain and Russia’s Rodina vs. Silins team of Latvia. Russia was first in Group A but from the bottom of the same Group Latvia’s representative booked their semi final place. In Group B Vilafranca and Rodina confirmed their status. In men 60-64 Spanish Sanse Coruna will meet another Spanish team CTM Fuengirola in semi final. In other match Ukraine’s Karpaty will play against Spanish Coslada. In men 70-79 Russia 70 will play against CTM El Alamo and Russia 70-74 will meet another club from Spain Los Novatos. In Men 65-69 Russia 2 will play against the Catmad De Barcelona whilst Estonia will meet Spanish Assoc. VET. BCN. In Group stage Barcelona lost against Russia whilst Assoc. VET. BCN. Beat Estonia. The link for pictures of the EVTC 2014 here
Orenburg special debut at Gasmen’s Day
Russian table tennis champion Fakel Gazproma Orenburg two-time MECL winner and actual runner-up is one of clubs from several sports supported by Gazprom the largest extractor of natural gas in the world. That’s the reason why Vladimir SAMSONOV D Russian table tennis champion Fakel Gazproma Orenburg two-time MECL winner and actual runner-up is one of clubs from several sports supported by Gazprom the largest extractor of natural gas in the world. That’s the reason why Vladimir SAMSONOV Dimitrij OVTCHAROV and Alexey SMIRNOV have special motivation for opening round of 2014/15 Men`s European Champions League… “We’ll try to make a present for the professional Gasmen’s Day – to win!” emphasized Valery SALABAEV head coach of Fakel Gazproma Orenburg announcing the Saturday`s Group A encounter against Polish Olimpia Unia Grudziadz (September 6th 13h20 CET). The Gasmen`s Day in Russia comes always on first Sunday in September and this time it is September 7th. Orenburg’s coach is happy that all his players expects opening MECL day in very good shape but shows big respect to three times Polish champion (1997 2000 2004): “We haven’t come across Polish club Olimpia Unia in the tournament yet but taking into account that there are experienced players in our rival’s team the match is expected to be very interesting and tense. Our rival is a strong European club ETTU Cup semi-finalist and three-times champion of Poland having experience of playing international matches. We are preparing for a serious match: all our players are in good health. Our team is in a good shape enough knowing that SAMSONOV became the winner and Smirnov semi-finalist of Pro-tours recently.”
Bogoria targets MECL semis
Five times Polish champion Bogoria Grodzisk Mazowiecki (2008 2009 2010 2012 2014) had never played in Men`s European Champions League semi-final before. They have two quarter finals (2009 2012) but coach Tomasz REDZIMSKI believes that the time has co Five times Polish champion Bogoria Grodzisk Mazowiecki (2008 2009 2010 2012 2014) had never played in Men`s European Champions League semi-final before. They have two quarter finals (2009 2012) but coach Tomasz REDZIMSKI believes that the time has come to go one step further. “We are glad to be able to compete with the best European clubs again. We have got very strong teams in group D so this is a great opportunity to test our skills. We have never reached semifinal before so that is the main goal for the new season. First step is to take positions 1-2 in Group D and we will do our best to reach this. On Friday in Dusseldorf we would like to play our best games. This is what we need to beat Borussia.” Round 1 of MECL Group D will be held today at Dusseldorf: Borussia – Bogoria (19h00 CET live on LAOLA1.tv)
