The draw for the women’s Champions League quarter-finals and the men’s and women’s European Cup quarter-finals took place on Friday 22/12, and through this process the Polish Bogoria Grodzisk of Panagiotis Gionis learned their opponent in the second tier of the European Club Cup .
As last year, this year too, she will find in front of her Gwiazda Bydgoz from the same country. After a short break, the European table tennis competitions will resume on January 30, 2024, as reported by the European Sports Union (ETTU), and Gionis is the only Greek representative, who continues in the continent’s team cups for the 2023-2024 period.
We remind you that Bogoria started this year’s journey from stage 2 of the Champions League and by finishing 2nd in group B with 2 wins and 2 losses, they earned the right to move to the final 8 of the Europe Cup, just as they had done in the previous two years.
That’s how long it has been since the way the Champions League is played has changed and only the winning teams from the same number of groups advance to the final 4. In the winter of 2022, Bogoria met Bydgosz again in a double Polish “civil war” and qualified for the semi-finals. Afterwards, it was left out of the final by the also Polish Dzialdovo and we remind you that the winner of the Europe Cup was the French Enebonne, with Giannis Sgouropoulos in its composition.
In the 2021-2022 period, Bogoria had also entered the semi-finals of the Europe Cup. Then he had eliminated Roskilde from Denmark, always with the help of the top Greek table tennis player. In the 4th place, her course was stopped by the Italian Apuania Carrara.
This year he would like to go one step further. He entered as the 1st favorite in the final 8, and if he overcomes the Bydgosz obstacle, he will meet either Orlis 1924 from Poland or French Pontoise Sergi, a former holder of the Champions League, in the semi-finals. The exact dates of the double quarter-finals will be announced along the way.
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