Two wins for Sgouropoulos in his start with the Polish Gliwice

Giannis Sgouropoulos opened the presence of the Greek table tennis champions in foreign interclub leagues for the 2024-2025 season.

On Friday 06/09 and Sunday 08/09, the five-time European champion played his first matches against Polish Gliwice. His new team in the country, the club he moved to in the summer, lost in the first two matches, however Sgouropoulos scored two individual victories in his start and that already has its importance when we talk about one of the best leagues in Europe. Overall, at the start of another year in Poland, he has two wins and one loss, while his side have returned to the top tier of the country’s club leagues this year and are looking to stay there. These days the championship started victoriously and Bogoria Grodzisk, only Panagiotis Gionis was absent, as he had requested days ago to rest a little more, while later Bialystok will play the first matches, with which the 1st Balkan champion of the singles has agreed Men’s Konstantinos Angelakis.

In the opening match, Gliwice welcomed to Centrum Sportowo – Kulturalne “Labe?dz?” Olympia Grudiaz and lost 3-2. Sgouropoulos initially defeated the Korean Lee Seungjun with a 3-0 set and in the end he fought back with a 3-1 set against the Finnish international Alex Naumi. In a change to the system, note that there is no double when the team score goes to 2-2 and there is another individual. Additionally, if any individual match reaches a 5th set, then it ends in favor of the athlete who completes 6 points first, not 11.

The final scene occurred in the next game of the Eleusinian ace. In the 3-1 away defeat by Orlis 1924, Sgouropoulos was placed in the 3rd position and scored Gliwice’s only win. He defeated Polish international Robert Floras 3-2 with the 5th set ending 6-3.

Polish champions Bogoria had victories in September against Villa Verde Olesno and Gwiazda 3-1 away, as well as runners-up Dzialdovo 3-0 at home, we repeat without Gionis in their lineup.