Panathinaikos entered the uphill and long road to the Europe Trophy Grand Final for men in table tennis with the right hand. In the three-day event, which started yesterday Friday 31/05 in Novi Sad, Serbia, it had a winning debut for the 2nd group, as it defeated the Dutch Taverzo with a hard score of 3-1.
He took a big step to qualify for the final 8, he wants to finish it with first place in the group, but he has to wait for today’s (01/06) second match against Roznava.
The team from Slovakia had been put in the lead, but in the morning in the opening match of the group they lost to Taverzo 3-0. As long as Panathinaikos finalizes the achievement of the first goal, it will later seek to enter the semi-finals and go to the final stage on Sunday 02/06 to chase the conquest of the Europe Trophy 2023-2024.
At 10:30 Greek time on table 2 is the match of the 3rd match with TJ Geolog Roznava and the link for Saturday’s live webcast is Novi Sad | Table 2. The quarter-finals are set for 16:30 also today (there will also be qualifying matches for all positions).
Against the former team of the great Kallinikos Kreanga, the “greens” competed with the Frenchman Emmanuel Lebesson, Konstantinos Konstantinopoulos and Konstantinos Angelakis. From the beginning they saw high obstacles in front of them and it is typical that two matches went to five sets, which, as is known, in recent years in the European Team Cups are decided in favor of the athlete, who reaches six points first. Panathinaikos prevailed in the details in both cases, in fact the victory of Angelakis in the third individual match against the experienced Belgian international Yannick Vostes was great. Lebesson achieved two wins from the 1st position first against Dutchman Milo De Beer 3-2 and then against Ukrainian Yevgen Prytshepa 3-1 sets.
Panathinaikos is expected to have Swedish international Viktor Brod at their disposal from tomorrow. The technical guidance is Lefteris Makras.
Details of the Panathinaikos-Taverzo 3-1 match:
Emmanuel Lebesson-Milo De Beer 3-2 (8-11, 11-5, 11-6, 5-11, 6-3)
Konstantinos Konstantinopoulos-Yevgen Pritshepa 0-3 (6-11, 3-11, 7-11)
Konstantinos Angelakis-Yianik Vostes 3-2 (15-13, 13-11, 7-11, 6-11, 6-5)
Lebesson-Priscepa 3-1 (5-11, 11-8, 11-4, 12-10)
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