In the second round the Panagiotis Gionis at the World Championships 2025, in Doha. For the 1st round of the simple men today (18/05) excluded Vong and Saint from Malaysia 4-0 and qualified for the “64” of the event.
The leading Greek athlete (No. 96 in the race) took the first step in high -profile at the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals and in the 2nd round has a more difficult mission against Kao Cheng Jui from Chinese Taipei (No. 25). Asian prevailed on Saturday with a 4-3 set in a balanced clash with Frenchman Lilian Barde.
In the match against Vang and Gionis quickly got a head in the scoring and with a combination of defense and attack made 1-0 easily. In the 2nd set he received the equilibrium from 9-5 and 10-7, but with good welcome and qualitative defense prevailed immediately after the extension. At 4-4 of the 3rd set, he fully utilized his service, kept the ball on the table and escaped with a series of six points. In the 4th set he kept the control and preceded 8-5. There he saw the 21-year-old Asian (No. 125 in the league) reacting with steady forehand attacks and in difficult places, changing his service a little and equalizing to 9-9. But Gionis, with his experience and two very good rally, again in his service, got his decisive next points (11-3, 12-10, 11-7, 11-9).
At the same time, in the afternoon (18:30), he makes his debut in the world championship Konstantinos Angelakis. With Slovaka Vang Yang (also defender) they face Saudi Ali Alkandraui/Abdulaziz Boulaibi’s “64” in the “64”.
In the meantime, in positions 33-38 ranked Manolis Pogiatzis In the Under 15 category of the Bulgarian Youth Contender of the World Table Tennis. The Kozani athlete was eliminated in the first round of the board 3-0 by Bulgarian Victor Dimitrov (6-11, 8-11, 4-11). He is definitely leaving with a positive sign, as he scored two wins and through a good number of games he had the opportunity for very useful conclusions in his first participation in a tournament abroad.
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