Walter Wels excited to play against reigning TTCLM champion

August 19, 2015
9:45 pm
Champions League Men

In the opening round Austrian club plays away against Fakel Gazproma Orenburg (Friday 14.20 CET)

The reigning TTCLM champion and no. 1 seed opens the new season by the home encounter against SPG Walter Wels which players are – as they stressed – very excited to play opening game against Fakel Gazproma Orenburg. President of Austrian club Bernhard HUMER hopes that newcomer from Japan Yaya OSHIMA could be able to repeat excellent performance from recent China Open where he reached the semi-final (in the Round of 32 Japanese eliminated Orenburg`s Dimitrij OVTCHAROV in seven games):

“As we have a newly composed team (BOBOCICA and OSHIMA are new to the club) we are very happy to play against Orenburg in the first round. We know that Orenburg is a very strong opponent so there is not too much pressure but maybe we can win a game having in mind that Oshima played excellent at China open some days ago.”

Walter Wels` coach Edi VECKO agreed with his president: “We know that we are the underdog in this match but we will try our best.” On the other side Orenburg`s coach Valeriy SALABAEV announces his victorious squad (Dimitrij OVTCHAROV Vladimir SAMSONOV Alexei SMIRNOV):

“As always all home matches we take very seriously. I hope nothing will prevent us to put the strongest lineup. In the new TTCLM season we shall try to defend the title won a year ago.”

Future cooperation in focus as Pedro MOURA meets Korean TTA President Taesung LEE

During the ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals, ETTU President Pedro MOURA met with KTTA President Taesung LEE to discuss the growing cooperation between the European Table Tennis Union...

Sweden men power into quarterfinals while women fall to China

Sweden experienced mixed emotions on Wednesday at the ITTF World Team Championships Finals in London, as the men’s team advanced confidently to the quarterfinals while the women’s campaign came to...

Romania survive Egyptian challenge to reach quarterfinals in London

Romania secured their place in the quarterfinals of the ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships Finals in London after overcoming Egypt 3-2 in a dramatic and closely contested Round of...

Germany set up quarterfinal rematch with Japan at World Team Championships

Germany’s men booked their place in the quarterfinals of the ITTF World Championships Finals in London after a convincing 3-0 victory over Hong Kong, setting up another showdown with Japan...