The first medals at the Pan-Hellenic Men’s Table Tennis Championships were given to the double mixed mixed mixer, which began and ended on Sunday and with George Constantinopoulos and Constantina Paridis to win the title.
Panathinaikos’ twin made excellent appearances from Seeding number 4 and reached the first, beating Stathis Manolopoulos and Dimitra-Emmis Tsekoura from AS Athens with 3-1 set. In the race, which returned to the Pan-Hellenic Championship program in the 2022-2023 season, the two athletes enjoyed their first gold medal.
The second day’s races at the SEF started with the doubles and on Sunday afternoon continue with the knockouts of the simple. The finale at the top event is written on Monday with the four remaining competitions starting from the quarter -final round.
The gold medal matches are in the women’s double at 15:00, in the men’s double at 15:40, in the simple women at 16:15 and in the simple men at 17:00.
The dashboard in the double mixed was of the “32”. He hid many powerful matches, as well as surprises and before we arrived at the final there were quite remarkable elements. The second favorite, Konstantinos Angelakis and Katerina Toliou did not fight because the Panathinaikos athlete was ill.
Yiannis Koutra and Stella Tzaridou, international from the teenage category, excluded the first favorite in the octave with the first favorite, George Stamatouros and Malamates Papadimitriou (Olympiacos/AEK), last year’s finalist.
Also, Manolopoulos and Tsekoura beat in the quarter-finals with a 3-1 set in the third favorite, Konstantinos Konstantinopoulos/Ioanna Gerasimatou (Panathinaikos), while the subsequent champions G. Constantinopoulos/Paris had two
Initially, against Gerasimos Hadjilleriouti/Golden Fotiadou (AO Tatavla/Sarises Florina) and then against Alexandros Madessi/Evangelia Merambelliotakis (AEK/Olympiacos).
In the final they claimed the first one with a right -handed combination with a left -handed athlete (the Panathinaikos couple) and the other two athletes with tires in backhand and a different style of play. Constantinopoulos and Paridis lost the first set, but immediately improved their performance.
They went 2-1 in the sets, in the fourth set they saw Manolopoulos and Tsekoura (number 7 in seeding) having a lead, but turned the situation and took the victory 3-1 (6-11, 11-4, 11-8, 11-8).
Alexandros Madessis/Evangelia Merambelliotakis (AEK/Olympiacos) and Yiannis Koutra/Stella Tzaridou (OEA Rethymnon/HANT) took the bronze medal. The latter were bent in the other semifinal 3-1 by Manolopoulos/Tsekoura.
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