In the final of the Europe Trophy ping pong, Panathinaikos, the first Greek team

Panathinaikos became the first Greek team to reach the final of a European inter-club tournament in table tennis on Saturday night 06/18.

At the Europe Trophy Grand Final, held in Havirov, Czech Republic, the club’s women’s team defeated Antwerp of Belgium 3-0 in the semifinals and qualified for the decisive match for the trophy.

So far two teams had advanced to the semifinals, Panathinaikos in 1974 in the Men’s Cup Winners’ Cup and Pera Athens in 2001 in the Men’s Champions Cup, now the best performance is held by the women of Panathinaikos, in fact they have all the conditions to reach the top in the maiden year of the third to qualify for the European Team Cup!

Katerina Toliou, Sandra Pergel and Slovenia Ana Tofant formed the trio again (Maria Artsetou on the bench, while Elisabeth Terpou did not follow the mission due to illness), continued the series with the 3-0 victories on Sunday at 12:00 they face in the grand final the Czech Krumlov, who is also undefeated in the tournament. In the technical guidance is Lefteris Makras.

Panathinaikos had started on Friday the final 8 team with two victories 3-0. On Saturday afternoon, the matches of the 1st group against the Austrian Bossendorf closed, they also dominated with 3-0 and solemnly won the first place.

The development of the match against Bossendorf:

Sandra Pergel-Alexandra Vovk 3-0 (11-6, 11-3, 11-6)

Katerina Toliou-Katarina Strazar 3-0 (11-9, 11-4, 11-7)

Anna Tofant-Lea Paulin 3-0 (11-7, 12-10, 11-8)

Tonight in the cross semifinals, Panathinaikos faced Antwerp, which had taken 2nd place in the 2nd group. Also, the Belgian team had met in the first phase in Latvia and had prevailed 3-0. It did the same now, although Antwerp was slightly stronger than in the first phase.

Detailed results of the match against Antwerp:

Toliu-Grandebach 3-0 (11-7, 11-2, 11-3)

Pergel-Devos 3-0 (11-6, 11-6, 11-5)

Tofant-Howard 3-1 (9-11, 11-6,11-7, 15-13).

Panathinaikos confirms the role of the 1st favorite in the tournament and at noon on Sunday undertakes the biggest challenge, namely to lift the trophy against Krumlov. The team from the host Czech Republic prevailed in the other semifinal of the Austrian Bossendorf with 3-0.

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