Greek “civilian” in the table tennis Champions League

The scenario was confirmed, which was considered as the most probable for the end of the 4th group in the 2nd stage of the Men’s Table Tennis Champions League and the teams of Panagiotis Gionis and Giannis Sgouropoulos are “fighting” today for the qualification to the 8th team!

In today’s 2nd match of the group, in Warsaw, Gogonis ‘Bogoria was defeated 3-1 by the Russian leader Orenburg, while Sgouropoulos’ Noy Ulm defeated El Nino Prague from the Czech Republic with the same score. Thus, the Polish and the German respectively, clubs of the top Greek athletes, are equal in the 2nd privileged position with 3 points and in today’s last match they play everything for the qualification.

Bogoria’s match with Noi Ulm starts at 13:00 (Greek time) and the winner will advance to the quarterfinals of the Champions League as 2nd from the 4th group, whatever happens in the afternoon in the match of the champion Orenburg with the tail El Nino. At the individual level, the main athletes of our national team gave today from a match, Sgouropoulos had a victory and Gionis lost.

In the first half of the second day, Bogoria was an underdog against five-time European champions Orenburg. However, he set a goal to chase the surprise, as Noi Ulm had done on Friday. It was preceded by 1-0 when the number 6 in the world rankings, Lin Yun Zhou from Taipei, defeated 3-2 sets by his compatriot Chuan Chi Yuan (third defeat in an equal number of matches and all in five sets …), but in the end lost 3-1.

Gionis had the opportunity to put Bogoria very strong again in claiming the victory in the third game in a row, but he bent down with 3-2 sets and then the final score was formed by the Brazilian Hugo Calderano (number 5) who with two more personal victories certified his excellent form.

Gionis (number 52 in the current world rankings) would give a match, anyway, and that was against the Portuguese Marcos Freitas (No. 24), with whom they have known very well for years. Our champion had not found a rhythm for about two sets, but he suddenly entered the game from 0-1 in the sets and 6-10 in the 2nd. He made an upset and equalized to 1-1, in fact, in the 3rd set he was ahead 5-0, completing 11 consecutive points! Gionis later gained the lead, but the left-handed former European men’s runner-up found the solutions and reached the victory with 3-2 and the last set to end 6-1.

It should be noted that according to the archive of the international federation, Gionis had prevailed in his first two matches in a big event with Freitas, but from 2014 until today he completed five consecutive defeats.

The development of the match Bogoria-Orenburg 1-3 in detail:

Chuan Chi Yuan-Lin Joon Yoo 3-2 (9-11, 11-4, 11-9, 6-11, 6-5)

Marek Badowski-Hugo Calderano 0-3 (5-11, 1-11, 10-12)

Panagiotis Gionis-Markos Freitas 2-3 (1-11, 12-10, 11-5, 4-11, 1-6)

Chuan-Calderano 1–3 (12-10, 5-11, 4-11, 8-11)

The night was Noi Ulm’s turn to enter the field. In contrast to the premiere against Orenburg today she had the chances with her side. With the Russian Katsman scoring two victories and Sgouropoulos relatively easily prevailing from the 3rd position of his team, the Germans overcame the obstacle of El Nino Prague with 3-1, achieving their fourth overall victory in this year’s tournament after the three in the stadium. 1. The Greek Youth European Champion (who is also preparing for the European U21 Championship in Belgium, which takes place next week) defeated the Czech Francisek Ondreka 3-0 set and at that point gave his team the lead with 2-1. He also covered the unexpected defeat of the Russian U21 European champion Vladimir Sindorenko earlier than the first player of the Czech Republic, Giri Vrablik.

The development of the match Noy Ulm-El Nino Prague in detail 3-1:

Lev Katzman-Jacob Zelinka 3-1 (11-3, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8)

Vladimir Sintorenko-Giri Vrablik 1-3 (11-9, 9-11, 7-11, 7-11)

Giannis Sgouropoulos-Frantisek Ondreka 3-0 (11-7, 11-6, 11-3)

Katzman-Brablick 3-1 (11-7, 8-11, 11-5, 11-6)

THE GROUP RATING (in 2 games)



TEAM DEGREES GAMES



1. Orenburg 4 6-3

2. Noy ​​Ulm 3 5-4

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-. Bogoria 3 4-4

4. El Nino Prague 2 2-6

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