And the second appearance of Malamatenia Papadimitriou in 2022, in a top ping pong tournament for young people, the so-called Youth Star Contender, again reserved a positive result in the double.
With teammate Romania Ioanna Singgeorzan, the current Greek women’s doubles champion scored a victory on the board, then was eliminated in an exciting quarterfinal and placed 5-8 in the double Under 19.
At the Youth Star Contender in Tunisia, in early February, Papadimitriou had won third place in the junior doubles, also with a foreign teammate (the Italian Arlia).
On the contrary, in the junior singles, the left-handed champion remained in the qualifying stage in Qatar, as had happened in Tunis.
In Doha, a triple Greek participation in the Feeder men’s-women tournament will follow. It will be held on March 13-17 and will be attended by Giannis Sgouropoulos, George Stamatouros and Papadimitriou.
The first two will then compete in the WTT Contender for Men-Women, which will also take place in Doha, 18-24 / 3.
On Thursday, Papadimitriou started her effort from the simple juniors. He knew that he would have a very difficult task to qualify for the “knockouts”, because even two girls he had in the second group (Gonda, Ogio) perform at an excellent level.
In her first match, the 18-year-old international was defeated 3-0 by Japan’s Yuna Otzo (7-11, 4-11, 6-11). At noon, he faced the Egyptian leader Hannah Gonda, he could not find a rhythm there either and he also bent down with 3-0 sets (4-11, 7-11, 6-11).
He came close to victory in the match of the third match. It was preceded by a 2-0 set by Romania’s Andrea Teglas, but lost the next in overtime and finally the match with 3-2 sets to be limited to the fourth place of the group (11-3, 11-9, 11-13, 11-13 , 10-12).
In the afternoon, the junior doubles started, which includes only “knockout” games. Papadimitriou and Singheorzan cooperated very well and could at least reach the semifinals. In the round of 16 they eliminated the Kazakhs Sarvinoz Mirkandirova / Anel Bakit with 3-1 sets (11-8, 6-11, 11-2, 11-7).
In the quarterfinals, they gave a very strong “battle” against Nicole Arlia / Sophie Earley from Italy and Ireland respectively. They took the lead with 2-1 sets, had bowl matches, but in the end “bent” with 3-2 sets (7-11, 12-10, 11-3, 15-17, 6-11) and were content with 5 positions -8.
Follow News Bulletin 247 on Google News to be the first to hear the latest news .
I am currently a news writer for News Bulletin247 where I mostly cover sports news. I have always been interested in writing and it is something I am very passionate about. In my spare time, I enjoy reading and spending time with my family and friends.
