With a great overall performance, Panathinaikos defeated LZ Linz Frosberg on Monday with a 3-0 set and made a jump to qualify for the final eight of the Europe Cup women’s table tennis. teams from the Champions League groups.
The result for the third phase of the Europe Cup is extremely difficult to overturn in the rematch next Friday at the closed Alexandra Avenue and, thus, after winning the Europe Trophy last summer, Panathinaikos athletes are very close to another European distinction.
Panathinaikos had started its European adventure this season in the Champions League, with a historic participation in general for table tennis in the country. He was eliminated in the groups of stage 1, but earned the right to continue in the groups of stage 2 in the second tier European competition. There, he qualified first from his own group and, thus, was in the first 12 of the Europe Cup.
Konstantina Paridis, Katerina Toliou and the Slovenian Ana Tofad were invited to face LZ Linz Frösberg on Monday night.
Tofand and Toliou gave Panathinaikos an “air” of two victories, losing just one separate set and Paridis came from position 3 to make the ideal finish. He found himself down 1-2 sets and prevailed in the end with the system of the sixth winning point in the fifth set.
In detail, the progress of the match Leeds Frossberg-Panathinaikos 0-3:
Andrea Pavlovic-Ana Tofad 1-3 (8-11, 5-11, 11-4, 3-11)
Pandita Piniopizan-Katerina Toliou 0-3 (9-11, 8-11, 9-11)
Anastasia Radionava-Konstantina Paridis 2-3 (8-11, 11-9, 14-12, 5-11, 2-6)
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