The first phase of the Sarajevo Balkan Table Tennis Championship is the group stage with nine countries for men and eleven for women and our representative groups have learned their opponents. The men’s national team (Giorgos Stamatouros, Nikos Antoniadis, Dimitris Kordoutis, Gerasimos Hatzilygeroudis) went to the third group with rivals Serbia (leader) and Bulgaria.
The women’s national team (Aliki Kioufi, Dimitra-Thomais Tsekoura, Malamatenia Papadimitriou, Ioanna Gerasimatou) is in second place with Turkey (leader), Kosovo and Bulgaria.
On Tuesday the organization and the same day the groups will be completed. Out of three teams that have been formed in the two categories, the first two teams from each group are sure to qualify for the final eight, but it is expected that “tickets” will also be given to third-placed teams.
Our representative groups arrived in the afternoon in Sarajevo and completed their preparations. The national team player, Sotiris Zikos, is finally the only coach in the team, as after a last-minute contingency, the head of the women’s team, Giorgos Karytsas, stayed in Athens due to close contact with a case of coronavirus.
The leader of the mission is the member of the Board of Directors of EFOEPA, Xenia Stathis, who will also deal with the candidacy of Orestiada to take over the Balkan Youth Championship 2023.
In the men’s team, Greece was in the third group with Bulgaria and Serbia. In the first are Romania, Albania, Montenegro and in the second Turkey, Kosovo and Bosnia.
In the women’s group, Greece was drawn in the second group and is chasing qualification against Turkey, Kosovo and Bulgaria. In the first group are Romania, Italy, North Macedonia and in the third Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Montenegro.
Tuesday’s schedule in the groups of our National teams:
In men:
Greece-Serbia at 15:10
Greece-Bulgaria at 18:50
To women:
Greece-Bulgaria at 13:20
Greece-Turkey at 17:00
Greece-Kosovo at 20:40
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