France Spain and Sweden secures quarters

November 20, 2015
11:00 pm
Europe Cup Men

Men’s ETTU Cup

Stella Sport La Romagne DKV Borges Vall Halmstads BTK and Istres Tennis de Table secured their place in the quarterfinal of the Men’s ETTU Cup. In mid January next year they will meet the clubs finishing on third positions in their respective Groups in the Table Tennis Champions league Men.

In France Stella Sport La Romagne withstood the spirited start of the team from Belgium. At the opening Jean-Michael SAIVE overcame Romania’s Adrian CRISAN to secure first point to guests but in the proceedings CHEN Tian Yuan took the match under control. He beat both SAVE and Ludovic BIERNY. Abdel-Kader SALIFOU joined him on the scoreboard with the victory over Christophe GERARD.

Led by Mattias KARLSSON Halmstads BTK brought the points home from Caen. KARLSSON beat Jakub KLEPRLIK and Romain LORENTZ in decisive match whilst Harald ANDERSSON joined him with the victory over LORENTZ.

Only in Denmark the match went full distance. DKV Borges Vall was stretched to five matches but at the end the points went to Spain. Roskilde Bordtennis BTK61 was forced from the beginning to run after the Spanish club. Michael MAZE overcame Marc DURAN to help his team but it was not enough GUI Chengkai was man in form tonight.

Stella Sport La Romagne – Logis Auderghem 3:1

Adrian CRISAN – Jean-Michael SAIVE 1:3 (4:11 9:11 11:8 5:11)
CHEN Tian Yuan – Ludovic BIERNY 3:1 (11:5 10:12 11:8 11:8)
Abdel-Kader SALIFOU – Christophe GERARD 3:1 (11:7 8:11 11:3 11:4)
CHEN Tian Yuan – Jean-Michael SAIVE 3:2 (11:7 11:5 9:11 4:11 11:2)

Roskilde Bordtennis BTK61 -DKV Borges Vall 2:3

ZHAI Yujia – GUI Chengkai 2:3 (11:9 4:11 11:7 9:11 10:12)
Michael MAZE – Marc DURAN 3:2 (10:12 7:11 11:3 11:9 12:10)
Claus NIELSEN – Oriol MONZO 1:3 (9:11 11:7 8:11 10:12)
ZHAI Yujia- Marc DURAN 3:1 (11:13 12:10 11:4 11:5)
Michael MAZE – GUI Chengkai 1:3 (6:11 11:9 8:11 5:11)

Caen TTC -Halmstads BTK 1:3

Romain LORENTZ – Harald ANDERSSON 0:3 (8:11 8:11 3:11)
Jakub KLEPRLIK – Mattias KARLSSON 2:3 (8:11 11:7 7:11 11:6 9:11)
Marcos MADRID – Fabian AKERSTROM 3:2 (7:11 11:9 10:12 11:3 12:10)
Romain LORENTZ – Mattias KARLSSON 1:3 (3:11 5:11 11:6 5:11)

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