The World Table Tennis Feeder table tennis tournament has started since Monday, but Katerina Toliou has avoided the qualifying groups with her good position in the international rating table and is directly in the main draw.
The first round of the women’s singles is of “64” and was drawn with Italy’s Giorgia Picolini (number 78 in the world ranking), who also did not compete in the qualifying process. The WTT Feeder Antalya 2023 is held at the “Gloria Sports Arena” with all individual events and will conclude on April 1st.
Toliou, who on Tuesday moved up two places in the world rankings to 192nd, is participating only in singles. The draw brought her up against a familiar opponent. In the last five years, he has had three matches in major competitions with Picolin and is called upon to break the negative tradition. She faced her at the Halmstad World Championships in 2018, at the Mediterranean Games of the same year, as well as at the WTT Feeder in Olomouc in 2022. She had three losses, but the last two were narrow with a score of 4-3 sets.
At 11:45 the match starts and if Toliou prevails and advances to the “32”, then it is most likely that she will meet the German Franziska Schreiner, who will know her opponent after the completion of the qualifiers. In February, our 28-year-old international made two consecutive appearances in the German Feeder in Dusseldorf, while in March she also competed in the Spanish Super division.
Her team, Reus, is in fourth place in the standings with 24 points after 18 matches and Toliou has a personal record of 6 wins and 3 losses.
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