Balkan ping champion

For another year, the national table tennis table gave it all to climb the podium of the Balkan Championship of Constantinople and clearly had the potential to achieve it, but eventually lived a work similar to last year in Sarajevo. He then lost in the decisive match for the 3-2 bronze medal from Bulgaria, while on Thursday in the match he bent over with the same score from Serbia.

Christos Lamis was in the technical guidance. Evangelia Merambelliotakis sat on the bench in all the dashboard matches.

After second place in the group (2 wins – 1 defeat and 5 points), our athletes kept the good pace and started the knockouts loudly. In the octave, they scored a 3-0 win over Bulgaria and took her rematch for defeats in the latest matches.

In the semifinals with Romania it was underdog, but they were competitive. Toliu had the opportunity to equalize the teams in 1-1, and it also had a match, but lost five sets and the sequel became difficult to difficult. Romania prevailed with a 3-0 set and then took the first place, also winning 3-0 in the final the “host” Turkey. Elena Zacharia, who has been working with AEK last year, was the main.

The clash with Serbia for third place was harsh. From position 1, Toliu took full advantage of her defensive style of play (she was particularly effective with Masuti, a former athlete of Sarisians Florina, with whom she had difficulty in Greek A1) and tied twice. But there was no third victory, passionately sought by the team and with a 3-2 defeat of the fourth place.

Our knockout struggles without time order:

In detail, the evolution of the “small” final Serbia-Greece 3-2:

Aeta Massuti-Ioanna Gerasimatou 3-0 (11-7, 12-10, 11-7)

Dragana Vignjevic-Katerina Toliou 2-3 (11-4, 7-11, 9-11, 11-7, 5-11)

Reka Bezeg-Elizabeth Terpou 3–1 (11-7, 11-4, 8-11, 11-4)

Massuti-Toliou 0-3 (6-11, 8-11, 5-11)

Vignjevic-Gerasimatou 3-0 (11-7, 11-8, 11-6)

In detail, the evolution of Romania semifinals – Greece 3-0:

Elena Zacharia-Ioanna Gerasimatou 3-0 (11-5, 11-4, 11-8)

Ioanna Singeorzan-Katerina Toliou 3-2 (10-12, 19-17, 6-11, 11-6, 12-10)

Bianca Mae Rosu-Elizabeth Terpou 3-0 (11-8, 11-9, 11-4)

In detail, the evolution of Bulgaria quarter -finals – Greece 0-3:

Tscelina Georgieva-Ioanna Gerasimatou 1–3 (8-11, 11-7, 10-12, 8-11)

Victoria Persova-Katerina Toliou 2-3 (8-11, 11-5, 4-11, 11-7, 2-11)

Mutlou-Elizabeth Terpou 2-3 (9-11, 3-11, 11-5, 13-11, 8-11)