“Golden” was Kontopoulou in women and Spanou in the youngsters in the Kosovo Open Championship

In a good racing tournament, excellent organization, such as the Kosovo Table Tennis Championship, the prizes and projection, first and foremost, the two gold medals in women. 17 -year -old Mavra Kontopoulou became the winner of the ordinary women. 16 -year -old Georgia Spanou won first place in the Under 19 category.

In addition, the two finals were a Greek affair. Golden Fotiadou took the second place and Kontopoulou in the young. Also, George Kosmas ranked a third in teenagers.

With this athlete, Greece was also first in the Prishtina Open, it was simply in Under 17, which did not enter the 2025 program.

This year there were men-women, Under 19, Under 13, Under 11, but also veterans and the Greek participants were ten.

In addition to the aforementioned, Ioanna Gerasimatou, Alexandros Madessis, Heraklis Kerasidis from Athens, children from Florina Marios Seridis, Panagiotis Tskaris and Argyris Dimakis.

Kosmas also had fourth place in the men, as Fourth was ranked in the Pampades. The coaches were Konstantinos Kostopoulos and Liviou Predaika.

In the vast majority, the entries came from Kosovo and, after all, athletes from Turkey, Germany, Poland, Albania, England, Wales, Austria, Northern Macedonia and Bulgaria.

In the big category, which also closed the program on Sunday night, our athletes first proceeded to the board with the first place from their clubs. In the simple men there were 17 groups and in the simple women’s eight.

The women were recorded after a few “civil”. In the round of the ’16, Fotiadou excluded Spanou, her teammate in Sarises Florina, 3-0. In the octave she met Gerasimatou, her teammate the National Women’s Team, and prevailed with a 3-1 set.

In the final, Kontopoulou paid Fotiadou 3-0. The Taurus Athlete had been directly in danger of being excluded in the quarter-finals when they lost a 2-0 set to a local athlete. But he turned the situation with three sets in a row and later, in the box, he won another athlete from Kosovo.

In men, Madessi was in the positions of 17-32. The AEK athlete lost to a very remarkable Polish, who had first come to OPEN in the under 21, which also did not happen this year.

Kerasidis was bent in the ’16s’ by the subsequent champion Chen, as Kosmas lost in the semifinals of the Austrian of Chinese descent. In the small final the DAO Taurus athlete lost marginally with a 3-2 set of Croatian opponent.

The Kosovo Open Championship had begun on Friday with the category Under 19. In the simple young women there were six groups. Kontopoulou and Spanou went ideally and clashed in a fascinating final. The Florina champion led 2-0, the Athenian international equalized 2-2 and was 5-0 in the decisive fifth set and then Spanu overturned and dominated 11-9!

In the corresponding category of boys, 15 groups were initially formed and the dashboard was of “32”. Kosmas lost in the semifinals by Turkish Atakul, who had won last year in Pristina in the Under 17 final.

In the match for the positions 3-4, he dominated the Albanian Cony with a 3-1 set. Kerasidis suffered the defeat in the 16th. Dimakis got a valuable experience in the teenage category.

The boys were first 11 groups at Under 13 of the boys. Seridis, who recently competed in the first Balkan Under 11 & Under 13 Championship, made a very good run and could reach at least in the final. He had a “battle” in the semifinals and lost 3-2. It was difficult to bent in the mixed final to take fourth place.

Three groups were originally created at Under 13 of the girls. Tsekari made promising appearances in the first octave and was eventually placed at 5-8.