Three teams enter TTCLM semis unbeaten

February 20, 2020
10:21 pm
Champions League Men

2019/20 Table Tennis Champions League Men

Favourites have justified their status in the 2019/20 TTCLM quarter-finals so we will see two German teams against two Russian sides in the semi-finals: Fakel-Gazprom Orenburg – FC Saarbrucken and Borussia Dusseldorf – TTSC UMMC.

Three teams enter knockout stage unbeaten: reigning TTCLM champion and five-time winner Fakel-Gazprom Orenburg 8-0 (24-4) record holder and 11-time champion Borussia Dusseldorf 8-0 (24-5) and 2012 finalist FC Saarbrucken 8-0 (24-7). Current TTCLM runner-up TTSC UMMC 7-1 (22-7) suffered its very first loss against Bogoria in the first quarter-final leg.

Orenburg’s Dimitrij OVTCHAROV has the best win-loss record so far winning all seven his encounters. There is just one more unbeaten player so far (minimum five played matches) Borussia’s Ricardo VALTER (5-0).

Other individual scores are following: Alexander SHIBAEV (UMMC) 7-1 Timo BOLL (Borussia) 5-1 Darko JORGIC (Saarbrucken) 5-1 Tomas POLANSKY (Saarbrucken) 5-1 Kristian KARLSSON (Borussia) 4-1 Andrej GACINA (UMMC) 8-2 SHANG Kun (Saarbrucken) 8-2 Jonathan GROTH (UMMC) 7-2 Marcos FREITAS (Orenburg) 6-2 Pavel SIRUCEK (Bogoria) 6-2 Vladimir SAMSONOV (Orenbrug) 5-2 Patrick FRANZISKA (Saarbrucken) 4-2 Panagiotis GIONIS (Bogoria) 9-3 Anton KALLBERG (Borussia) 7-3…

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