The weekend in Thessaloniki and the training room of XANTH in the indoor gym “Mimis Tsikinas”, ended with great matches, but also unpredictable results for the ninth and tenth games of the A1 National Women’s Table Tennis.
In the top positions of the standings, the main news is that the second Panathinaikos advanced with two victories and, mainly, overcame the high obstacle of ASEA Sarises Florinas with 3-2 sets. Thus, on the 29th of the month, he will chase his chances for the overthrow against the undefeated Olympiakos, although he is clearly disadvantaged after the defeat in the first round with 3-0 sets.
Panathinaikos gave a match and easily defeated DAO Tavros 3-0 set. Among the results that stood out was the dominance of Pera Athens against Sarises with 3-2 sets.
Panathinaikos had Slovenia Ana Tofant in its composition, but no other foreigner, while it also lacked Elisabeth Terpou. He did not have the strongest trio, however with Toliou on a very good day, he managed to “bend” with 3-2 sets the team of Florina, which also made a tactical move for the victory.
In position 3, he put the French Le Scour and had in 2 the young Aba. For the final outcome, Toliou’s victory against the first player of Sarissa, France Liu, was decisive.
In detail, the evolution of the match Panathinaikos-Sarises Florina 3-2:
Katerina Toliou-Despina Aba 3-0 (11-2, 11-5, 11-4)
Ana Tofant-Liu Judith 2-3 (11-9, 5-11, 13-11, 5-11, 8-11)
Maria Artsetou-Roman Le Skour 0-3 (4-11, 4-11, 3-11)
Toliou-Liu 3-0 (11-6, 11-9, 11-5)
Tofant-Aba 3-0 (11-6, 11-5, 11-5)
Earlier, Panathinaikos had no problem with opponent AEK being imposed with a 3-0 set. Sarises had formally come out of claiming the championship before the derby with Panathinaikos. This is because Pera caught an excellent performance and defeated them with 3-2 sets.
“Key” was the victory of Olga Georgopoulou against Roman Le Skour in five sets with a reversal, in fact, from 0-2 sets. At that point, Pera made it 1-1, later took the lead with Dimitra-Thomaida Tsekoura (3-0 set Despina Abba) and, after the second victory of Liu and the draw from Sarises, Monica Knezevic prevailed in the final of Le Skour with 3-0 sets.
DAO Tavrou scored its first victory in this year’s championship. He defeated the “hostess” XANTH with 3-1 sets thanks to two victories of Filareti Exarchou (3-2 sets by Chrysi Fotiadou and 3-1 sets by Eleni Sofra) and one by Eleni Georgiadou (3-1 set by Sofra). For the team of Thessaloniki, Stella Tzaridou defeated Evangelia Troaditi with a 3-0 set.
In summary, the results in the A1 women:
HAN Thessaloniki-DAO Tavrou 1-3
Sarises of Florina-AS Beyond 2-3
AEK-Panathinaikos 0-3
Panathinaikos-Sarises Florina 3-2
AS Pera-HAN Thessaloniki 3-0
DAO Tavrou-Olympiakos 0-3
Olympiacos and AEK took a break
THE SCORE IN A1 WOMEN (in 10 games):
1. Olympic SFP 18 (in 9 games)
2. Panathinaikos AO 17 (in 9 games)
3. Sarises of Florina 16
4. AS Pera Athinon 15 (in 9 games)
5. AEK 11 (in 9 games)
-. HAN Thessaloniki 11
-. Α.Ο. DAO Taurus 11
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