The Polish Bogoria of Panagiotis Gionis will play the two finals against Dzialdovo in the men’s table tennis Europe Cup on Thursday and next Saturday, and the top Greek athlete aspires to celebrate winning a European trophy for the first time. At the beginning of the new week, he will leave for Saudi Arabia, in order to take part in Saudi Smash 2024, which will take place in Jeddah 1-11/05.
In the men’s Europe Cup, for the first time in history, two finalists from Poland appear in the final. The first match takes place on Thursday at the home of Bogoria at 20:40. The decisive second final is set for 18:00 next Saturday at the home of Dzialdovo.
Both Bogoria and Dzialdovo had started this year’s European journey from the Champions League.
Gionis has the Poles Marek Badowski, Milos Rezimski and the Japanese Jin Takuya as teammates on this course. Key players in the other Polish team are the Polish Jakab Dyzas, the Danish Jonathan Groth and the Japanese Kai Konichi.
THE SEMI-FINALS IN SWEDEN
In the Swedish League, our three champions, having managed to help their teams achieve their goals in the regular season, now strengthen them in the playoffs for the best. As was known, the one semi-final of the process included a match between teams of Greek athletes.
Konstantinopoulos’ Record, which had finished third in the playoffs, welcomed Sgouropoulos’ Eslov, which had taken first place at the end of two rounds. After a strong match and without the teams setting up to produce a Greek “contra”, Eslov won 4-1.
Sgouropoulos first lost 3-2 sets to the Swedish Hambus Sonderlund and then defeated the also Swedish Max Hedbom 3-1. Constantinopoulos was beaten 3-2 sets by England’s Tom Jarvis and no match was recorded against the great Truls Meregaard as the team scores were settled.
Angelakis’ Sparwagen (fourth in the regular season) had a big derby with Soderham as a guest. The Greek defender scored two wins, but it wasn’t enough and his team lost 4-3. In his first match, he beat Sweden’s Anton Hort 3-2 in sets and then 3-1 against Sweden’s Viktor Brod, who with 22 wins and 4 losses was the most prolific player in the regular season of the championship.
Angelakis was also used in the doubles in the final. With teammate Harald Andersson, they lost 2-0 sets to Broad/Eriksson and, thus, the final score was formed.
The second matches will be held at the home of the guests on Thursday and, if the score is 1-1, decisive third matches are scheduled for 29/04 at the Eslov and Soderham venues respectively.
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