Member Associations | 1 May 2022

Krisztina TOTH helps Ukrainian players

Seven time European champion and World Championships bronze medalists Krisztina TOTH of Hungary she is very involved in helping Ukrainian players. TOTH is looking for opportunities to help Ukrainian girls to attend international tournaments as Youth WTT in Poland, Germany and Spain.

Veronika MATIUNINA, runner up at the Youth European in cadet girls singles in 2021, who won altogether 3 medals, Olya PONKO and Anastasiia KHATCHATUROVA arrived after a long trip from Kyiv to Munich, at the end of March, with a lot of help from Family Hermann MÜHLBACH and Thomas THEISMAN.

They live now in the Internat in Munich at the Bavarian national center. They are fully integrated into the group, with German youth national players such as Hannes HÖRMANN, Tom SCHWEIGER, Matthias DANZER and Naomi PRANJKOVIC.

They study German with Krisztina every day and the Internat helps them also a lot same as their coaching team Dustin GESINGHAUS.

Bavarian table tennis association provides the practice facilities, where Krisztina is the head coach.

“I try to help girls to attend international tournaments, such as Poland, Germany and Spain. I'm very happy, the girls are here and we become friends and work very good together! They adjusted very fast, they are in one Internat, so they can combine practice with school and to learn the language. Now we are in contact with the ITTF federation about getting help from them,” said TOTH.