The time has come for the main phase of the men’s table tennis groups of the Champions League, as the first had a qualifying character to emerge the classic 16th team of the tournament.
The beginning took place on Wednesday night, while from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 of the month the fourth group will be held in Warsaw, where, in fact, the teams of Panagiotis Gionis and Giannis Sgouropoulos coexist.
Gionis’s Polish Bogoria Grotzisz is also the organizer of the games, always in “bubble” conditions, due to the pandemic. He is from the second row of favorites and was found directly in this phase.
The German Noi Ulm of Sgouropoulos was lucky to qualify with a lead from a group of the first phase. The two most successful indigenous Greek athletes in European championships will say it as opponents next Sunday.
In the fourth group, the five-time European champion Orenburg (leader) and El Nino Prague will also compete.
The first two teams from each of the four groups advance to the final eight. According to the program, on Friday Bogoria will face El Nino and Noi Ulm will face Orenburg. The next day Bogoria will meet Orenburg and Noi Ulm will meet El Nino and on Sunday the teams of the main athletes of our National team will face each other in a match that will most likely decide the qualification.
Gionis went to Poland a few days ago and gave his first fight after the necessary rest and treatment for a month, due to the problem in Achilles.
In Bogoria’s 3-0 home win over Zamos on Sunday, they knocked out Philip Sumanski from 3rd place with a 3-0 set. He found that he was in good condition “and I just had the slightest discomfort that was expected, because I had time to fight and it takes a while for the foot to get used to it”.
In its European start, Bogoria will have at its disposal the famous Chuan Chi Yuan from Taipei. The all-time top athlete on the world stage, in fact, played in the last championship game, where with its victory Bogoria remains at the top of the standings with 23 points after ten matches with Bydgoszcz and Torun.
Along with Gionis and Chuan in the roster of the team for three days will be the Poles Marek Badowski and Milos Redminski.
Sgouropoulos has been training in Germany for days and will move from there to Warsaw on Thursday. In their last match for the Bundesliga, Noi Ulm defeated Grusvendarsbach 3-1 away from home on Sunday, he just was not in the top three. His team is in fifth place with 8 points after eight games.
Coach Dmitry Mazunov has selected Russian Eleusinian youth champions Vladimir Sintorenko and Russian Lev Katsman for the Champions League group.
We also remind you that in September, at the beginning of the Champions League 2021-2022, Nei Ulm played in Wales, Austria and with the absolute victory in three matches, it had been solemnly qualified by its group in the next phase of the second group. Sgouropoulos had taken part in the first two matches.
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