Margaryta PESOTSKA will have her son by her side in Munich

Last week Ukraine’s Margaryta PESOTSKA played at the WTT Championships in Budapest and reached the Round of 16 of the Women’s Singles Event. She beat Brazil’s Bruna TAKAHASHI before lost to CHEN Meng of China.

“I felt very exiting to play wtt champions.It was nice experience for me. In addition it was a good opportunity to keep my level because from February it was only my second International competition ” explained PESOTSKA.

PESOTSKA will play at the forthcoming European Championships Munich 2022 (to be played from 13th to 21st August). Margaryta already has silver medals from the European Championships in Stuttgart 2009 and from Alicante 2018. In singles she also clinched two bronze medals in Gdansk Sopot and Warsaw in 2011 and 2020 whilst in Yekaterinburg in 2015 she was third with the team.

“Now I back from Budapest for two weeks in Ukraine to see my family after we have training camp in Poland and then I will travel to Munich ” reported PESOTSKA.

You said you had only two tournaments after February. Did you have a chance to train?

“Russia destroyed our table tennis hall in most of cities in Ukraine. In Kiev the hall is still working but many players left their homes and now live abroad.”

PESOTSKA is no. 11 seed. At the top of the list are HAN Ying and Nina MITTELHAM of Germany Sofia POLCANOVA of Austria SHAN Xiona of Germany Hana MATELOVA of Czech Republic YUAn Jia Nan of France…

“I think all favourites are in good shape so it will be a big battle for the medal at the European Championship. I do not think about my result. I am going to travel with my son so it will be first experience to be together during competition. I hope for a good game and nice matches ” said PESOTSKA.

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