Three out of eight TTCLM Round 5 matches finished
Table Tennis Champions League Men Round 5 commenced with three matches held this evening: KS UNIA AZS AWFiS GDANSK – ESLOVS AI BORDTENNIS 2:3 FC SAARBRUCKEN TISCHTENNIS – BOGORIA GRODZISK MAZOWIECKI 2:3 G.V. HENNEBONT TT – TTC OSTRAVA 2016.
Current TTCLM runner-up ESLOVS AL BORDTENNIS beat away KS UNIA AZS AWFiS GDANSK as XU Hui did his job providing two points to Swedish team. In his first encounter Chinese overcame his former team mate Mattias OVERSJO in four games while in the fourth clash he prevailed against WANG Yang. The fifth duel between OVERSJO and Daniel KOSIBA was very intense and after many upside downs belonged to Eslov`s player.
BOGORIA GRODZISK MAZOWIECKI needed victory in Saarbrucken in order to preserve its chances for the quarter-final and they managed it thanks to Panagiotis GIONIS who took two points. Two former players of Borussia Dusseldorf met in the decisive fifth clash as Greek who signed for Bogoria last summer beat Patrick BAUM after full five games. GIONIS overcame Bojan TOKIC in the opening game between two former individual bronze medalists from European championships while Daniel GORAK added third point on Bogoria`s account beating young Russian Andrey SEMENOV.
One more match was held in the Group C as G.V. HENNEBONT TT defeated TTC OSTRAVA 2016 3:1. Now it`s clear that the Round 6 game between Bogoria and Hennebont will decide the second quarter-finalist beside Saarbrucken.
CHEN Chieh-An was man of the match in Hennebont`s clash. He beat both Tomas TREGLER and Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC who lost to Quentin ROBINOT in the second game. Petr KORBEL won unique point in Ostrava`s side defeating Liam PITCHFORD.
The 2016/17 TTCLM Round 5
GROUP B
KS UNIA AZS AWFiS GDANSK – ESLOVS AI BORDTENNIS 2:3
WANG Yang – Daniel KOSIBA 3:0 (11:4 11:7 11:6)
Mattias OVERSJO – XU Hui 1:3 (7:11 11:8 2:11 10:12)
Mitsuki YOSHIDA – Robert SVENSSON 3:1 (11:9 11:4 10:12 11:9)
WANG Yang – XU Hui 1:3 (11:9 4:11 7:11 5:11)
Mattias OVERSJO – Daniel KOSIBA 2:3 (9:11 11:8 9:11 11:4 4:11)
GROUP C
FC SAARBRUCKEN TISCHTENNIS – BOGORIA GRODZISK MAZOWIECKI 2:3
Bojan TOKIC – Panagiotis GIONIS 1:3 (4:11 11:6 6:11 8:11)
Patrick BAUM – Daniel GORAK 3:0 (12:10 11:9 11:4)
Tiago APOLONIA – Artur MICHALCZYK 3:0 (11:3 11:3 11:1)
Andrey SEMENOV – Daniel GORAK 0:3 (7:11 6:11 8:11)
Patrick BAUM – Panagiotis GIONIS 2:3 (7:11 12:10 6:11 11:5 7:11)
G.V. HENNEBONT TT – TTC OSTRAVA 2016 3:1
CHEN Chieh-An – Tomas TREGLER 3:2 (8:11 13:11 7:11 11:8 11:5)
Quentin ROBINOT – Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC 3:2 (9:11 11:9 10:12 12:10 11:8)
Liam PITCHFORD – Petr KORBEL 1:3 (10:12 11:6 5:11 8:11)
CHEN Chieh-An – Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC 3:1 (12:10 11:3 6:11 11:8)
