Europe Cup Men | 14 Mar 2015
Safe trip for Metz and Tarnobrzeg
The club that won the title in the Women’s ETTU Cup twice, will need a miracle to reach the ultimate stage of the same competition. In the first leg of the ETTU Cup semi final, played at home soil in Spain, UCAM Cartagena TM suffered straight matche
The club that won the title in the Women’s ETTU Cup twice, will need a miracle to reach the ultimate stage of the same competition. In the first leg of the ETTU Cup semi final, played at home soil in Spain, UCAM Cartagena TM suffered straight matches defeat against French Metz.
World’s no 23 from Germany WU Jiaduo showed her class in the duel against LI Xiang. FU Yu of Portugal, currently ranked at position no. 18 beat Maria XIAO. That was the only duel when guests were under pressure. Maria showed good performance in opening game, and lost next one by narrow margin. At the end Yunli SCHREINER that showed why French club has so many European success to its credit.
Long trip to Taganrog in Russia did not affect performance of the KTS SPAR Zamek Tarnobrzeg players. In straight games Polish side secured the victory in the opening leg of the Women’s ETTU Cup.
Olga BARANOVA was the only player who escaped 0:3 defeat in hosts team. LI Qian needed four games to give guests the lead. Anna BLAZHKO against HAN Yine and Valentine SABIATOVA against Natalia PARTYKA failed to win the game.
UCAM Cartagena TM – Metz TT 0:3
LI Xiang – WU Jiaduo 0:3 (7:11, 7:11, 5:11)
Maria XIAO – FU Yu 0:3 (7:11, 12:14, 4:11)
Iulia NECULA – SCHREINER Yunli 0:3 (7:11, 3:11, 7:11)
TMK Tagmet – KTS SPAR Zamek Tarnobrzeg 0:3
Olga BARANOVA – LI Qian 1:3 (4:11, 11:9, 1:11, 8:11)
Anna BLAZHKO – HAN Yine 0:3 (6:11, 12:14, 10:12)
Valentine SABIATOVA – Natalia PARTYKA 0:3 (4:11, 7:11, 3:11)
