Ioanna Gerasimatou and Maria Yavkova, who are well -known, having been teammates in Bulgaria and Greece, went on Wednesday in Kosovo’s World Table Tennis Feeder qualifiers with two wins, Wednesday, were also decisive and decisive, Italians Nicole Arlia/Miriam Carnivale.
In the qualifying process in general, our internationals left a positive impression, regardless of if no other qualification was recorded. In the simple women, Malamates Papadimitriou “chased” with all her might the first in her group and qualifying for the simple women’s dashboard and lost her in an ambiguous match.
Terpou had a remarkable appearance and against the first favorite of the qualifiers, it was bent 3-1 and eventually the details of two balanced matches deprived the board.
On Wednesday, Terpou also competed in the decisive second qualifying round of the double mixed with George Constantinopoulos, they were excluded from a powerful Croatian couple, but, of course, there was the difficulty of adapting our left -handed champion, since we had no other fight.
With the young JAPAN KAVAKAMAMI SGOUROPOULOS in the first round
The Greek racing presence at the Kosovo WTT Feeder continues on Thursday and with Yiannis Sgouropoulos. The four -time European champion was directly on the dashboard of the simple men and he enters the table to face him. 48 athletes participate.
The Japanese comes from his qualifying group, and just last week won the title in the Under 17 category in Youth Contender in Pristina.
Sgouropoulos had competed last October at Kosovo’s respective Feeder for 2024. He had entered the men’s 9-16 places and will now seek a good place. The race with Kavakami takes place at 13:30 in Greece at the table 1. If he overcomes the Asian obstacle, he will meet the “32” by Frenchman Juli Rolan (he is number 11 in the tournament and had bye in the first round).
In the qualifiers of the double women, Gerasimatou and Yovkova came from a comfortable victory on Tuesday with a 3-0 set against Kosovars call Osmani/Jump Mehmeti. On Wednesday, they went perfectly “read” and ready in every respect to the last qualifier with Nicole Arlia and Miriam Carnivale. In addition, they overcame all the critical points and reached an emphatic victory with a 3-0 set and the qualification (12-10, 12-10, 11-8).
The central board of the race is the ’16’. Of course, the follow -up to the Greek -Bulgarian twin is even more difficult, as it will face Polish Natalia Bayor/Zuzana Vielgos, number 6 of double women. At the table 1 this match is also done and starts at 16:30.
In the simple women and the sixth qualifying group, Papadimitriou, after paying Gerasimatou on Tuesday in the spectacular Greek “duel”, gave a decisive match with Aenoch Christobal on the privileged first place. She claimed her goal, had a direct response to the Spanish initial lead, but in the end she lost 3-1 (7-11, 11-9, 8-11, 6-11) and was eliminated in second place in the group.
It should be noted that participation in Pristina was the seventh this year in a feeder for our left -handed champion.
In the first group, the Terrus had a new useful test on Wednesday, regardless of whether the combination of the first two games on Tuesday could not reach the first. Playing, and more freely, he made claims against Indian leader, Harde Pael, just as Tuesday in the 3-2 set with Chilean Rios, so on Wednesday in four “full” sets, he did not have the last ball (9-11, 11-13, 14-13, 14-13).
In international tournaments it was reappeared after November and the Portuguese feeder.
Gerasimatou had also completed her excellent attempt on Tuesday in the simple qualifiers, with the peculiarity that they coincided with Papadimitriou in the same group.
In the dual mixed men-women, the only Greek participation played on Wednesday to qualify for the main board. G. Constantinopoulos and Terpou had a bye in the ’16s’ of the qualifiers and in the octave they met Leon Benko/Dora Kosic. The Croats proved to be very good and the blockage came with a 3-0 set (6-11, 6-11, 5-11).
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