In the second section of Wednesday’s games, there were three qualifiers in the main board of the singles at the European Individual Championships in Linz, Austria, and they were won by Yannis Sgouropoulos and Konstantinos Angelakis in the men’s category and Katerina Toliou in the women’s category.
Sgouropoulos and Toliou have once again found themselves in this pleasant position in the institution, while Angelakis fulfilled his basic wish in his first appearance in a European singles championship. All together they reached an excellent account for the Greek delegation in this first part of the most important competition, because they went through a difficult qualifying process that included two phases.
In front of the eyes of the president of EFOEPA, Costas Papageorgiou, our internationals bring out the country’s momentum again, in fact in the men’s “6 on 6” from Sgouropoulos, Angelaki comes to the first major event that Panagiotis Gionis leaves after Paris 2024 and is perceived and as another good omen for the future of the National team.
In addition, Giorgos Stamatouros chased his entry into the scoreboard with claims, while Elizabeth Terpou in the women’s game did very well in the decisive game and could very well take it to five sets and go all the way to claim the victory.
The opponents on the boards are determined by a new draw later in the evening and continue on Thursday.
We remind you that Greece continues its representation in Leeds and in the double with two appearances on the “32” board. In the men’s doubles, Angelakis/Wang Yang, who qualified with a win in the first round, were drawn with the Englishmen Liam Pitchford/Samuel Walker. The match takes place on Thursday at 12:40 Greek time.
In the women’s doubles, Toliu with Turkala Sibel Altinkaya was directly on the scoreboard. They were drawn with Raquel Moret/Gaia Monfardini from Switzerland and Italy respectively. The match takes place on Thursday at 11:30.
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