After hosting numerous top international events including World and European Championships the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen will host the 2021 German National Closed Championships for women and men on 28/29 August three weeks after the end of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. The 89th edition of the German Championships was originally planned for the beginning of March the traditional date of the nationals for decades. But the ITTF had postponed the World Championships in South Korea which could not take place last year because of the COVID 19 pandemic to exactly this date. That’s why the German Championships had to move.
The Germans cannot hold their tournament on the ETTU’s favoured date in January. Until then the qualifying events for the National Championships in the regional associations could not have been played. The lockdown in Germany will last at least until mid-February.
DTTB President Michael GEIGER is looking forward to the first national title bout in Bremen:
“Table tennis is incredibly well received in the Bremen region. We are sure this will also be the case at the 2021 National German Championships. We have always received an immense amount of positive feedback at all our events in the ÖVB Arena and even set attendance records at various German Open tournaments as part of the ITTF World Tour. Bremen is an outstanding place for table tennis.”
The ÖVB Arena was the venue for the 2006 World Team Championships the 2000 European Championships and eight German Open tournaments between 1999 and 2019.
The record holder in the eternal best list of national championships in Germany is Timo BOLL who won his 13th singles title overall in 2019. In women’s singles Nicole STRUSE tops the leaderboard with nine victories. Current German Champions in the singles competitions are Ricardo WALTHER and Nina MITTELHAM who prevailed in Chemnitz in 2020. A total of 32 men and women in the singles and 16 in the doubles and mixed will play for the titles in Bremen.
The ticket presale is expected to start in June and will apply to the at this time current prevention regulations.
