Panagiotis Gionis’ Bogoria Grozisk is preparing for the two semifinals of the Europe Cup, the second in the European inter-club table tennis tournament, and in this spirit the top Greek defender is absolutely present, as he has returned energetically to action and is doing much better. the problem in Achilles.
The next obstacle for the Polish club is the Italian Apuania Carrara. The first meeting is scheduled for February 17 in the neighboring country and the second for February 23 in Mazowiecki.
In the meantime, Gionis, as well as Giorgos Konstantinopoulos, continue the matches in the Polish League, while the third Greek in the group, Konstantinos Aggelakis, is in the process of recovery after knee surgery.
Gionis has been training with his team for a few days now and initially played on Friday. In the 3-1 set at the home of Torun, he was placed first player and scored two individual victories. First against Thomas Kotowski with 3-2 sets and then against Damian Venderlich with 2-0 sets.
Leg pain does not leave him, of course, but, in addition to being significantly smaller, the return to normal, after each match, is faster.
Bogoria, which is in the group of champions in the second phase of the championship and has a guaranteed presence in the playoffs, faced on Monday night away from home and Yaroslav, Angelakis’s team.
The Greek champion was again strong as a first player, prevailed in both of his individual games, but his team lost 3-2 sets. The match was judged in the double and with a marginal difference and earlier the 42-year-old defender had defeated Simon Brad with 3-0 sets and the Indian Satygian Gnasekaran with 2-1 sets.
The regular season ends in three games and will be followed by the playoffs of the octave.
Gionis is now ready to help in the new European challenge. He dreams of entering the final of the Europe Cup and later winning the trophy, he has stressed, after all, that this is Bogoria’s goal. After a long absence, he strengthened his team in the European octave and contributed to the qualification with a reversal against the Danish Roskilde.
USD Apuania Carrara eliminated Top Spin Messina in the quarterfinals, also from Italy. He proved to be very strong, in fact, as he achieved two victories with 3-0 sets. The basic trio consists of the Italian Mihai Bombosika, the Slovak Lubomir Pistei and the Croatian Andrei Gasina, who this year has agreed with Panathinaikos and ten days ago had come to Greece for the A1 playoffs, which were finally postponed.
In the other semifinal, the Austrian Wiener Neustadt and the Spanish Borges will face on the 18th and 25th of the month.
Giorgos Konstantinopoulos and Orlis 1924 are also fully active in the Polish League. In the second phase, the club is in the group of teams fighting for the stay, on Friday it prevailed with 3-1 sets at home of Polonia Bitom and on Sunday it lost home 3-2 set by Olympia Grundiz.
The current runner-up of Greece in men’s singles and doubles defeated Jacob Folvarski in the first match with 3-2 sets, while on Sunday he lost with the same score to the Russian Vassily Lakeev.
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