Fakaros won two “gold” in the boys, Boula is the champion of Greece in girls’ singles

Kostas Fakaros in the boys’ singles and Vasiliki Boulas in the girls’ singles were crowned today, Sunday 12/05, in Chania, Greece’s table tennis champions for the 2023-2024 season. At the end of a wonderful 4-day competition at the closed gymnasium of Kladisos, Fakaros won the gold medal in the children’s doubles with Theofani Mitkas of Ethnikos Alexandroupolis. In singles, the athlete from Finikas Agia Sophia Piraeus defeated Konstantinos Alexoudis of GS Filia Orestiadas in the final with 4-2 sets and reached his maiden Panhellenic title in the most important event. The same applies to the athlete of OA Chania, who advanced as the 4th favorite and in the final beat Georgia Spanou from Sarises Florina with 4-1 sets. Stella Mavromataki from OA Chania and Georgia Spanou celebrated the first place in the girls’ doubles. As of Friday 10/05, we remind you, Yiannis Kioseloglou and Christina Tzenidis from Poseidonas Loutrakiou and HAN Thessaloniki respectively won the gold medal in the mixed doubles. In very good conditions and with a generally excellent image, the competitions were co-organized by E.F.O.E.P.A., the Region of Crete (Regional Unit of Chania), the municipality of Chania and the OA of Chania.

The gre78.tv channel on YouTube also took care of the great promotion of the children in the last Panhellenic championship of the year. Every day he broadcasted the developments with two live and descriptions, he had interviews with people from the sport, while he videotaped all the matches and will post them on his website.

Chania hosted the Panhellenic championship of the category for the second year after 2018 and satisfied every expectation. They promoted the event, brought at least a few young students, who are not related to the sport, to the gym, ensured benefits for all participants, set a festive tone with music every day during the breaks and had the essential interest of the local lords, elements that are always important . Around 80 boys and girls chased honors and remarkable performances, great matches were recorded in a total of seven events and the championship made history in the afternoon with exciting finals.

In the children’s singles, Kostas Fakaros from the top of the board and Konstantinos Alexoudis from position 3 claimed the gold medal. They had also competed in the semi-final of a development tournament this year and the left-handed Evritis had prevailed. In Chania they reached the 2-2 set with a great performance and there Fakaros showed composure and great faith in his attacking shots, he also used his serve and took the victory with 4-2 sets (11-9, 6-11, 11- 5, 10-12, 11-3, 11-7).

We remind you that he also competed in the final of the mixed doubles, while three weeks ago he was also the winner of the final of the development championships.

On his way to the final, Fakaros had a bye in the “32” and yesterday in the round of 16 he eliminated Konstantinos Toulias from Proodo Voutzas Rafina with 3-1. Today he defeated Chrysovalantis Sambalis in the 8th round with 3-0 sets and Theofanis Mitkas in the 4th round with 4-0 sets.

On Saturday, Alexoudis defeated Menelaos Stogiannis of OEA Thessaloniki in the 1st round with 3-0 sets and in the 2nd round Nikos Angelidis (Ikaros Kastritsiou) with 3-1. On Sunday, he eliminated Dimitris Georgallidis (SPA Lykovrisis Pefkis) in the quarterfinals also with 3-1 sets and in the semifinals the 2nd favorite, Yannis Kioseloglou, with 4-2.

In the girls’ singles, we had reversals of forecasts with the first two favorites missing out on medals and in the final Vasiliki Boulas from position 4 and Georgia Spanou from position 5 faced each other. her all around game near the table. After 1-1 in the sets she went through her tactics, the also excellent Spanou missed crucial attacks and the final was written 4-1. The development 11-3, 10-12, 11-6, 11-3 and 11-9. Boula gave a very good follow-up to her Panhellenic junior doubles title, a few days ago with Angela Noure in Kalamaria, as on Friday 10/05 she also won first place in the girls’ team with Chania.

On her way to the final, she started with a bye in the “32” and yesterday in the round of 16 she eliminated Katerina Ioannou of HAN Thessaloniki with a 3-0 set. Today she overcame Nestoria Chrysostomidou (Sarises Florina) with 3-0 sets in the quarter-finals and her long-time companion Angela Noure with 4-1 in the semi-finals to be followed by their warm embrace for three minutes in a touching moment of the championship. Nure in the 8th had defeated the 2nd

Spanou, after going through the 1st round without a fight, eliminated Sofia Meligkonis from AO Dafnis Ymittos with 3-0 sets. On Sunday morning she caused a surprise as she overcame the number 1 of the competition and last year’s champion of Greece Qi Xinyu with a 3-2 set and even with a reversal from 0-2! In the semi-finals, she had a sensational one-hour match with Stella Mavromatakis and prevailed with 4-3 sets.

In the boys’ doubles, the first two favorites reached the final. Kostas Fakaros and Theofanis Mitkas (No. 1) formed a combination of an offensive and a defensive style of play, while in Yiannis Kioseloglou/Anastasios Fusekis we had a collaboration between a right-handed and a left-handed athlete. Fakaros/Mitkas passed their game in the first two sets and led 8-6 in the 3rd. There, the picture changed drastically with the 14-year-olds from Poseidon finding psychology and hitting and after reducing the score they even reached the equaliser. In addition, they got the first say in the 5th set when they led 8-4 and 9-6. The final was amazing with the subsequent winners hitting very hard shots and coming away with the narrowest of upsets (11-5, 11-8, 8-11, 9-11, 11-9).

The first two favorites also faced each other in the girls’ doubles final. On the one hand, Stella Mavromataki/Georgia Spanou, who had to manage their emotions after the exciting semi-final between them, which was preceded by Christina Tzenidis/Anna-Fanouria Mitkas on the other hand, in a strong left-handed and right-handed combination. It was also a close match with frequent fluctuations and it reached the 5th set. There, the number 1 player of the competition led the score, kept control against critical mistakes by the athletes of CHANTH and took the victory with 3-2 sets (6-11, 11-5, 13-11, 6-11, 11-5 ).

The winners in each individual event:

SIMPLE KIDS:

1. Kostas Fakaros (Phoenicia Agia Sophia Piraeus)

2. Konstantinos Alexoudis (Friendship of Orestiada)

3. Yiannis Kioseloglou (Poseidon Loutrakiou)

-. Theofanis Mitkas (Nationalist of Alexandroupolis)

SINGLE GIRLS:

1. Vasiliki Boula (OA of Chania)

2. Georgia Spanou (Sarises Florina)

3. Stella Mavromataki (OA Chania)

-. Angela Noure (OA Chania)

CHILDREN’S DOUBLE:

1. Kostas Fakaros/Theofanis Mitkas (Phoenicia Agia Sophia Piraeus/Ethnikos Alexandroupolis)

2. Yiannis Kioseloglou/Anastassios Fousekis (Poseidon Loutrakiou)

3. Dimitris Georgallidis/Apostolos Vatsaklis (SPA Lykovrysis/Pefkis)

-. Chrysovalantis Sambalis/Nikos Angelidis (Poseidon Loutrakiou/Ikaros Kastritsiou)

GIRLS’ DOUBLE:

1. Stella Mavromataki/Georgia Spanou (OA Chania/Sarises Florina)

2. Christina Tzenidis/Anna-Fanouria Mitkas (HAN Thessaloniki)

3. Irini Chrysostomidou/Nestoria Chrysostomidou (Sarises Florina)

-. Angela Noure/Vasiliki Boula (OA of Chania)

DOUBLE MIX:

1. Yiannis Kioseloglou/Christina Tzenidis (Poseidon Loutrakiou/CHAN Thessaloniki)

2. Kostas Fakaros/Qi Xinyu (Phoenicia Agia Sophia Piraeus/AO Tataula)

3. Nikos Angelidis/Stella Mavromataki (Ikaros Kastritsiou/OA Chania)

-. Konstantinos Alexoudis/Irini Chrysostomidou (Filia Orestiada/Sarises Florina)

The awards were presented by the Regional Councilor of the Regional Unity of Chania Spyros Balatinos, the Deputy Mayor for Sports and Youth of the municipality of Chania Stelios Michaelakis, the president of E.F.O.E.P.A. Costas Papageorgiou, the second vice-president of the federation and general secretary of the OA Chania Kiki Erinaki, the president of the OACH Panagiotis Tzineurakis, the treasurer of the EFOEPA Xanthi Kioufi and the regent of the table tennis department of the OACH Vassilis Mavromatakis.