European ping pong championship K13: Greece’s 16th place in Mixed Team

The national team completed its presence in the European Table Tennis Championship with a pleasant emotions, regardless of 3-1 defeat by Ukraine in the B Final final.

And the positive disposition there was no reason to spoil because the national team came second to the second level, went extremely well in a total of eight games and had achieved Friday night, with the marginal victory over Portugal, the second goal of finding Costa in the 16th best.

It was also competitive in the last match match with powerful Ukraine, which had lost to the … points to the A level. Also encouraging the fact that we came for our mixed team a significantly better place after 27th place in the respective Championship in Bucharest.

The total report was 5 wins and 3 defeats and significant and notable results were recorded at the individual level.

Greece began as number 21 in seeding and went to the final after four consecutive wins in B Final. Ukraine was number 16 of the championship. In Stadium 1, she tied at the top of her group with Bulgaria and the Czech Republic and lost the entrance to the top 14 in the points, as the score between them was the same (3-2) with 1 win and 1 defeat for everyone!

In Stadium 2 dominated three 5-0 wins and on Friday night in Hyasti he passed 15-16, surpassing Lithuania 3-2.

On Saturday morning our internationals chased the most “sweetest” finale, but the Ukrainians were slightly better. We exerted pressure, Markoulakis reduced mini -overturn and shortly after Michalarou gained the sets in the sets, but opponents found solutions at critical points.

In detail, the evolution of the Ukraine – Greece 3-1:

Mark Voronoi/Ilona Buhay-Nikos Alexidis/Anastasia Michalarou 3-0 (11-4, 14-12, 11-7)

Anastasia Cholovo-Hope Tassiou 3-0 (11-4, 11-8, 15-13)

Ivan Bour-Theofanis Markoulakis 2-3 (10-12, 11-9, 11-4, 9-11, 7-11)

Bujai-Michalarou 3-1 (5-11, 11-5, 11-4, 11-6)