Panathinaikos claims qualification to Italy, Olympiakos, Sarison draw for Europe Trophy

After qualifying stage 1 for the 2023 European Team Table Tennis Championships, the European Club Cups follow. Last weekend, Greece achieved double success with the Men’s and Women’s National Teams topping their groups in the next qualifying phase of the European Championship and now they are once again represented in the inter-club events of the ‘old continent’.

Panathinaikos, first of all, moves to Bolzano, Italy for stage 2 of the European Women’s Cup and plays both of its matches for the fourth group on Wednesday.

The season was preceded by his historic first participation in the Champions League and now he will be chasing the qualification to the third phase of the Europe Cup.

Also, two more of our teams, which have been declared in Europe and specifically in the Europe Trophy, met opponents in the first phase. In the third tier European Cup, Olympiacos participates in the men’s, Sarises Florina in the women’s and the groups will be held at the end of November.

Panathinaikos continues its European journey in the second European club competition. After the great experience of the Champions League and the good effort in the groups with a purely Greek composition, the 2022 Greek Cup winner moved to the second phase of the Europe Cup.

On Tuesday, he left with a final destination of Bolzano, where on Wednesday he will claim a new lofty goal from the fourth and final group. If it finds itself in one of the first two positions of the group, it will qualify for the next stage, where teams from stage 2 of the Champions League will also go.

According to ETTU’s schedule, at 11:00 they will compete against the Italian Norbello and at 19:00 against the Spanish Leca Ena.

Panathinaikos traveled to Milan in the morning and arrived in Bolzano early Tuesday afternoon by train. She will line up with Katerina Toliou, Konstantina Paridis, Elisavet Terpou and the Slovenian Ana Tofad. The team will be coached by Lefteris Makras, as was the case in the Champions League groups, while the Panathinaikos team manager, Tasos Symeonidis, is also on the team.

EUROPEAN TOUR FOR OLYMPIC AND SARISES STARTS FROM SERBIA AND SLOVAKIA RESPECTIVELY

The other day, in the meantime, the training of the groups for the Europe Trophy was carried out by the ETTU. The event, which started last year and in the women’s category Panathinaikos was champion, highlights the champions in Regions of the European continent in the first phase. The winners then meet to determine the All-Region champion.

For the men, Olympiacos, returning after many years to the European competitions, was drawn in the third group of Regions. Always, according to the ETTU update, the three-day 25-27 November will be in Novi Sad, Serbia to challenge for the best against TJ Geolog Roznava and SK Vydrany from Slovakia, STK “Libertas Marinkolor” and Starr from Croatia , the Italian ASD Marcozzi Cagliari, the Austrian UTTC Raiffeisen Kennelbach, STK Banja Luka from Bosnia, STK Radnicki Beocin from Serbia and APOEL.

Olympiacos has declared in Europe almost all the athletes it has agreed with this year, regardless of whether not all of them will be able to compete. He declared, that is, the foreigners Liam Pitchford, Antonino Amato, Tomislav Pukar, Andrei Gatsina, Enio Mendes and the Greeks Yiannis Sgouropoulos, Giorgos Stamatouros, Tassos Riniotis, Giorgos Maras and Panagiotis Kriekoukis.

In the women’s side, ASEA Sarises was drawn in the third group and on November 26-27 in Bratislava, Slovakia will face the local Stolnotenisove Centrum SKST, the Austrian SU Sparkasse Kufstein I, STK Aquaestil Duga Resa from Croatia, TT Dinez from Belgium, ASVO TTC Olympic, also from Austria and HB Ostrov Havlickuv Brod from the Czech Republic.

This will be the fourth participation of the Florina club in the European Interclub Cups. The Sarises have registered seven athletes in the Trophy Cup and they are: Despina Aba, Bernadette Balid, Judith Liu, Alexia Malo, Georgia Spanou, Irini Chrysostomidou and Nestoria Chrysostomidou

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