07/09/2010 – Bastian STEGER has a severely bruised his chest (rib) at the China Open in August. It seemed okay for a while; STEGER played in Bundesleague/DTTL and participated in the EC training camp last week in Rotenburg. However the pain has some https://www.ettu.org 07/09/2010 – Bastian STEGER has a severely bruised his chest (rib) at the China Open in August. It seemed okay for a while; STEGER played in Bundesleague/DTTL and participated in the EC training camp last week in Rotenburg. However the pain has somehow increased. Now he is forced to withdraw from the 2010 LIEBHERR European Championships in Ostrava. “He needs to have a break. It does not make sense to play European Championships with only 70 or 80 per cent of his actual capacity ” says Jorg ROSSKOPF the new national coach and Richard PRAUSE’S successor since August. The cancellation is not only a setback for STEGER himself and the team but also for Patrick BAUM. Doubles BAUM/STEGER won the Korea Open in August and had chances to win a medal in Ostrava too. Baum’s new partner will now be 18-year-old Patrick FRANZISKA the reigning European Junior Boys Champion. Timo BOLL is in good shape but broke his blade last week. For him it is not a catastrophe but anyway he had to find new material at the training camp in Rotenburg last week. “It usually takes about a month to get used to a new blade – he says – but I hope that this time it goes a little quicker”. The broken blade has not changed his aim for Ostrava. “Our team is the top favorite. Anything but the title would be disappointing to be open. As we all are strong single players a lot of things would have to go wrong if we had lost a whole team match. Anyway: We must take every opponent seriously and must be alert from the first match on”. Dimitrij OVTCHAROV pointed that Germany will have difficult job against Greece Poland and Czech Republic in their group. “Many teams are after us. That was the situation the Swedish team was in for many years. I hope that for us too it will take a while until others catch up with us ” says ROSSKOPF. “If we win again the team’s title it will be easier to play singles and doubles afterwards. The pressure on us as the favorites is high but the players are able to stand it”. So far Germany has won the team’s title 3 times in a row 2007 2008 and 2009. Timo Boll could score another triple. Last year he won the team’s and doubles’ events but lost to Michael MAZE in the semi final in singles. “As I only became third last year I am the challenger this time. Before Stuttgart last year I suffered from an injury for several weeks. This year I am in good shape and want to make it further up. But it won’t be easy ” he reckons. His main competitors will be Vladimir SAMSONOV and his team mates. Michael MAZE’S shape was not easy to judge after his long break. 29-year-old BOLL has won 10 titles at European Championships so far. Top ranked in the European “hall of fame” is Jan-Ove WALDNER. The Swedish legend scored 11 titles in his career. Catching up with WALDNER is not a hot topic for Boll. “It’s always the press who tells me about such details. I’m not focusing on that. I’m not a record chaser”. Like the German women the men’s team will arrive in Ostrava on Thursday. The ladies’ formation will consist of the quartet who surprisingly won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Moscow in May plus ZHENQI Barthel who became third in Stuttgart in the doubles competition together with Kristin SILBEREISEN. For top player WU Jiaduo Kristin SILBEREISEN Sabine WINTER and Elke SCHALL the surprise from Moscow does not count any more as German Sports Director Dirk SCHIMMELPFENNIG explains: “In Ostrava we have to start all over again. Especially among the ladies the level in Europe is rather even. In our group Croatia Austria and our team could play for the medals. And also Turkey’s HU Melek is capable to score points and put any opponent under pressure”. Anyway the team’s aim is clear: “As 5th in Stuttgart we narrowly missed a medal. In Ostrava we want to win one”. Elke SCHALL will play European Championships for the 10th time in Ostrava. “European Championships are always something special ” the 37-year-old says. “I will try and show my best performance and then see where it’s leading me”. Even though she is the most experienced player of her team she does not consider herself being the team leader. “In the end every player is responsible for herself. Once the match has started nobody can help you.Anyway a good team spirit can spur you on. That’s what made our team strong in Moscow”. Strong in Moscow: That’s how the European title holder performed. “Of course I now feel under more pressure than e.g. before Stuttgart ” explains WU Jiaduo. “But I always think positively. I hope to win a medal this year too – in singles doubles or with our team. It’s important that we do not put a strain on us by possible results but think from match to match only”. (by Simone HINZ courtesy of DTTB) Click here for more information about 2010 LIEBHERR European Championships Photo: 2010 German men’s team

06/09/2010 – Greece will be represented at the 2010 European Championships in Ostrava by seven players. Panagiotis GIONIS Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU and Dimitris PAPADIMITRIOU line up alongside Kallinikos KREANGA. In the women team are Katerina NTOULAKI https://www.ettu.org 06/09/2010 – Greece will be represented at the 2010 European Championships in Ostrava by seven players. Panagiotis GIONIS Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU and Dimitris PAPADIMITRIOU line up alongside Kallinikos KREANGA. In the women team are Katerina NTOULAKI Maria CHRISTOFORAKI and Filareti EXARCHOU. In the Group Stages of the Men’s Teams Event Greece will play against Germany Czech Republic and Poland. “The fact that we have in our group the European Champion and the host country makes our work more difficult. Furthermore Poland has also strong team which may even reach the medal” – said the national coach of men’s team Kostas VATSAKLIS – and added: “Every match is like final for us. The basic target is to qualify in positions 1-8. If we succeed then we will go for the best possible position. Kalinikos KREANGA is in good shape and his performance play important role in order to get a high position”.The national coach of women’s team George KARYTSAS stressed: “We have difficult group. We will face a former European champion and Slovenia which showed at the World Championship its value. Respect of course must be shown in match against Azerbaijan. We will try to qualify in positions 17-24 and we are preparing for another derby against Slovenia. After a successful presence in Moscow our national team will try to have a similar positive trend in Ostrava”. The men’s team took the first part of the preparation in the altitude of the village Trikala Corinthia and worked exclusively on physical fitness. Then they prepared for a week in Sport Camp Loutraki and the last part was in Athens (Peace & Friendship Stadium). The women’s team started the preparation in Athens make also camp in Loutraki for a week and returned in Greek capital. For the individual events except KREANGA Greek could have success with GIONIS who is always looking for something more after round of “16″. In women NTOULAKI can pass two or three rounds. In every case the big names of Greek mission must wait the draw of individual events. KREANGA will not take part in the event of double. The best pair is GIONIS/PAPAGEORGIOU. (by Ioannis FAKAROS courtesy of Hellenic Table Tennis Federation) Click here for more information about 2010 LIEBHERR European Championships Photo: Greek star Kalinikos KREANGA (Photo ROSCHER) 06/09/2010 – Greece will be represented at the 2010 European Championships in Ostrava by seven players. Panagiotis GIONIS Kostas PAPAGEORGIOU and Dimitris PAPADIMITRIOU line up alongside Kallinikos KREANGA. In the women team are Katerina NTOULAKI Maria CHRISTOFORAKI and Filareti EXARCHOU. In the Group Stages of the Men’s Teams Event Greece will play against Germany Czech Republic and Poland. “The fact that we have in our group the European Champion and the host country makes our work more difficult. Furthermore Poland has also strong team which may even reach the medal” – said the national coach of men’s team Kostas VATSAKLIS – and added: “Every match is like final for us. The basic target is to qualify in positions 1-8. If we succeed then we will go for the best possible position. Kalinikos KREANGA is in good shape and his performance play important role in order to get a high position”.The national coach of women’s team George KARYTSAS stressed: “We have difficult group. We will face a former European champion and Slovenia which showed at the World Championship its value. Respect of course must be shown in match against Azerbaijan. We will try to qualify in positions 17-24 and we are preparing for another derby against Slovenia. After a successful presence in Moscow our national team will try to have a similar positive trend in Ostrava”. The men’s team took the first part of the preparation in the altitude of the village Trikala Corinthia and worked exclusively on physical fitness. Then they prepared for a week in Sport Camp Loutraki and the last part was in Athens (Peace & Friendship Stadium). The women’s team started the preparation in Athens make also camp in Loutraki for a week and returned in Greek capital. For the individual events except KREANGA Greek could have success with GIONIS who is always looking for something more after round of “16″. In women NTOULAKI can pass two or three rounds. In every case the big names of Greek mission must wait the draw of individual events. KREANGA will not take part in the event of double. The best pair is GIONIS/PAPAGEORGIOU. (by Ioannis FAKAROS courtesy of Hellenic Table Tennis Federation) Click here for more information about 2010 LIEBHERR European Championships Photo: Greek star Kalinikos KREANGA (Photo ROSCHER)

05/09/2010 – Having reached bronze medals 2008 and 2009 the Austrian men’s team will start the 2010 team event at the LIEBHERR European Championships in Ostrava with legitimate hopes for the third medal in a row. After two training camps in Au https://www.ettu.org 05/09/2010 – Having reached bronze medals 2008 and 2009 the Austrian men’s team will start the 2010 team event at the LIEBHERR European Championships in Ostrava with legitimate hopes for the third medal in a row. After two training camps in Austria (Faakersee and Stockerau) Werner SCHLAGER and his teammates will arrive in Ostrava already on Monday 6th Sep for getting the finale touch. “For Werner SCHLAGER and CHEN Weixing the team event has definitely highest priority. If these two and Robert GARDOS can show their best performance a medal should be reachable. With some luck it might be more than bronze like the last two years” Sport-Director Hans FRIEDINGER pins his hopes on the three routiniers. In the Austrian women’s team the fitness of number one LIU Jia will be the great question mark. Suffering from serious problems with her elbow (which forced her already to withdraw from the World Team Championships inMoscow) she is not entirely recovered yet. After a long and intense medical treatment her conditions have been improved but we have to see how she can manage the high physical strain of such a long lasting tournament. For this reason aims are set low. “First of all we have to avoid relegation and would be quite satisfied to reach the quarter final” FRIEDINGER shows untypical modesty. The Austrian men’s team: Werner SCHLAGER CHEN Weixing Robert GARDOS Daniel HABESOHN Stefan FEGERL FENG Xiaoquan (Mathias HABESOHN and Christoph SIMONER only plays men’s doubles) Women’s team: LIU Jia LI Qiangbing Monica JURIC Karina KOVACS (by Wolfgang PAULIK ?? Press Officer) Click here for more information about 2010 LIEBHERR European Championships Photo: Robert GARDOS (Photo Roscher)

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