UMMC won all its 22 games

April 14, 2015
12:00 am
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After the fourth tournament of the Russian Premier League held in Serpukhov City near Moscow last weekend UMMC Verkhnaya Pyshma is unique undefeated club with all 22 victories. Fifteen out of these encounters JUN Mizutani Joao MONTEIRO Alexander SHIBAEV Grigoriy VLASOV and Andrey BESHAPOSHNIKOV won 4:0. But reigning champion Fakel Gazproma Orenburg played without its best trio Dimitrij OVTCHAROV Vladimir SAMSONOV Alexey SMIRNOV (instead them played Fedor KUZMIN Denis IVONIN and Sergey ANDRIANOV as UMMC`s head coach Tatiana KUTERGINA stressed for the website of its club:

“We won and we are fine but we had significantly easier job bearing in mind that Orenburg arrived in Serpukhov with its second team. The World Championships will start at the end of this month thus players are focused on that event. I am very happy that UMMC members showed that they will be in good shape for the upcoming championship”

The Super Final of the Russian Premier League will be held at the end of May. Players will have enough time to rest after the QOROS 2015 World Table Tennis Championships in Suzhou (April 26^th – May 3^rd).

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