The draw for the first phase of the 2023 European Team Table Tennis Championship took place on Friday afternoon 25/02 in Malm της, Sweden, at the Fairmont le Montreux Palace Hotel. To be more precise, the draw for the teams of level A and level B of the qualifiers, as the corresponding procedure for the teams of level C has preceded.
The city of southern Sweden will host the final stage of the big event next year, from 10 to 17 September 2023 and will be preceded by the qualifying stages, which of course are of interest to Greece. Our representative teams participate in the second category (level B) and got to know their opponents in the … half.
The men’s national team leads Group B1 and will face Bosnia / Herzegovina and the team that will prevail in the 1st group of level C. The women’s national team will lead Group B4 and will meet Wales and the team that will occupy 2nd place in the 2nd group of level C. Almost at the same time, another news came out about a top team event, as the international federation announced that it was postponed for the fall, due to coronavirus, the 2022 World Cup.
In the first phase of the European Championship 2023, groups of 3rd in the first and second categories were formed. The national teams will face the bird system. However, while in the first category matches are scheduled inside and outside the home in two rounds, in the second group the groups will be played over the weekend in one place and in one round. The European Table Tennis Association (ETTU) directorate also notes that the top two teams from each group in the second division advance to the qualifying round 2 to claim the remaining tickets for the final phase together with the third group in the first division. category, while placing the matches of stage 1 for next October. Generally, the first phase will start on the three days from the 1st to the 3rd of April 2022 with the teams of the 3rd category. The holder of the European titles in men and women Germany, as well as the host Sweden avoid the qualifiers and proceed directly to the final phase.
The candidate national teams from level C to complete the groups of Greece are: Lithuania, Cyprus, San Marino, Scotland, Malta or Armenia from the 1st group for men, Bosnia / Herzegovina, Israel , Montenegro, Cyprus, Kosovo, Faroe Islands and Georgia for women.
THE NEW DATES OF THE WORLD TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) also announced on Friday 25/02 that this year’s Men’s World Team Championship, to be held in Chengdu, China, has been postponed from September 30 to October 9, 2022.
“Given the continuing spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 and after close consultation with the Chinese Table Tennis Federation and the Chengdu city authorities, all parties have agreed that holding the World Championship in the autumn would be the best course of action. The event was originally scheduled for next April.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, the ITTF has faced several challenges. Once again, he will work hard to minimize the impact on players and allow them to play in the best and safest conditions. “China is a long-time member of the table tennis family and the ITTF believes it will deliver a great event in seven months,” the international federation said in a statement.
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