Giorgos Stamatouros, Giannis Sgouropoulos and Malamatenia Papadimitriou gave their first games in the strong Doha ping pong of Doha, which is offered for good competitive tests.
Stamatouros participated in three races and the positive news is that he successfully passed the first qualifying round of the men’s singles and continues on Monday his very difficult effort to qualify on the board. He defeated the remarkable Turkish Tugay Yilmaz with a 3-1 set.
Sgouropoulos, who is directly on the main board, and Papadimitriou, who had a bye in the first qualifying round of the women’s singles, competed on Sunday only in the doubles. Both Sgouropoulos and Stamatouros, however, and Papadimitriou and Stamatouros were eliminated in the men’s doubles and doubles qualifiers respectively.
In the men’s singles, the qualifying scoreboard is “64”. Those who advance to the octave, pass to the final stage and this alone testifies to the great degree of difficulty. Stamatouros faced the Turk Tugay Yilmaz in the first round and defeated him with 3-1 sets.
Temporarily, he had accepted the draw in overtime, while in the fourth set he saw Gilmaz reduce the point from 10-6.
Giannis Vlotinos, who was on the bench of the Greek champion of 2021, got a time out and, immediately after, Stamatouros took advantage of the fourth match bowl (11-5, 12-14, 11-8, 11-9).
On Monday, our 23-year-old international will chase the qualification to the “16” with Romanian opponent Darius Movileanou.
In the same match, the draw was made on the main board with gaps, which will be covered after the qualifiers. Sgouropoulos did not have a favorable draw in the sense that he went high on the board and, if he proceeds to the second round, he will most likely face the Chinese Zao Zihao, who is the number 1 favorite.
In the “64”, the current European champion of the simple Under 21 was drawn with the Austrian Masie Kolojietsik. The matches here start on Tuesday.
In the women’s singles, the qualifying scoreboard is “32”. Papadimitriou went without a match in the second round and in the 16th team on Monday has an extremely difficult task against Miva Charimoto. The Japanese defeated the Chinese Qin Yushuan in the first round on Sunday with 3-0 sets.
In the men’s doubles and in the qualifying round of the “16”, Sgouropoulos and Stamatouros were eliminated by the Spaniards Joan Masip / Carlos Campalero with 3-0 sets (8-11, 8-11, 6-11).
In the double mixed, Stamatouros / Papadimitriou faced in the first qualifying round the Indians Jane Pagias / Saini Souhana and lost with 3-1 sets (6-11, 8-11, 11-7, 6-11).
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