In the Europe Cup Women CTM Mirandela KTTC AFP Antwerpen Museo de la Almendra Francisco Morales and Czestochowa Bebetto AZS UJD emerged as the top-performing teams in their respective groups. In Mirandela in Group A Portugal’s CTM Mirandela represented by Ines MATOS Anamria ERDELYI and Matilda a PINTO overcame Romania’s CSM Constant and Italy’s AD Muravera TT to claim the top spot in the group. Group B also played in Mirandela saw KTTC AFP Antwerpen prevailing against Spanish Vellsam – Hujase Jaen Paraíso Interior and Italian A.S.D. Tennistavolo Norbello. The Spanish club secured the second position with one win. LI Dong Angelique GERTENBACH and Elena CHMIGUELSKAIA represented Antwerpen. In a playoff match between CSM Constanta and Vellsam – Hujase Jaen Paraíso Interior the Romanian club emerged victorious. Groups C and D were contested in Austria’s Linz. Museo de la Almendra Francisco Morales from Spain secured the top position in Group C with wins over Tigem Spor Kulubü from Turkey and Uniao Sebastianense F.C. from Portugal. The Spanish team featured JIAQI Meng Mariia GALONJA and Patricia SANTOS. In Group D Polish Czestochowa Bebetto AZS UJD recorded two straight wins over Belgium’s TT Vedrinamur and Austria’s LZ Linz Froschberg. The Czestochowa team included Anastasiya DYMYTRENKO Tetyana BILENKO and Alicija LEBEK. In a playoff match between Tigem Spor Kulubü and LZ Linz Froschberg Austria’s representative emerged victorious.
TT Joué les Tours Advances to Second Phase
In the Champions League Women the opening stage was divided into two groups. The top two teams in Group 1 are SKST Plus Hodonin from Czechia and ALCL TT Grand-Quevilly from France. In Group B the French team TT Joué les Tours and SH-ITB Budaörsi Sport Club from Hungary lead the standings. In Group A SKST Plus Hodonin emerged victorious in all four matches. Natalia PARTYKA JEE Minhyung and Solomiya BRATEYKO secured wins against ALCL TT Grand-Quevilly Panathinaikos AC from Greece GIRBAU-VIC TT from Spain and Miró Ganxets Reus from Spain. Only the Spanish club managed to push them to a full-distance match. ALCL TT Grand-Quevilly suffered only one loss with LI Samoson WU Jiaduo Isa COK and Anais SALPIN forming their team. Miró Ganxets Reus gave both favorites a tough fight but ended the stage without a win. In Group A TT Joué les Tours represented by Audrey ZARIF HE Li and Nolwenn FORT overcame SH-ITB Budaörsi Sport Club TT Moravsky Krumlov from Czechia Spanish Tecnigen Linares and HB Ostrov z.s. from Czechia. For the Hungarian club Georgina POTA Dora MADARASZ and Helga DARI were in action. In Round Two the following teams are already placed: Group A: KTS Enea Siarkopol Tarnobrzeg from Poland and TTC Novi Sad from Serbia. In Group B: UCAM Cartagena TM from Spain and TT Saint Quentin from France. In Group C: Linz AG Froschberg from Austria and Etival ASRTT from France. In Group D: Metz TT from France and ASD Quattro Mori from Italy.
rünwettersbach Successful in Their Debut
In the Europe Cup Men ASV Grünwettersbach made their international debut in the club’s history and managed to win their group on home soil in Karlsruhe Group D. In Group A played in Zoetermeer De Boer Taverzo made a successful return to the European Cup after a two-year break. They secured two wins against the Spanish Club TDM Monte Porreiro and Malta’s MITT. The Dutch club was represented by Yevhen PRYSEHCHEPA Ivan KAHN and Milo DEBOER. Spanish Monte Porreiro is currently second in the standings with one win. On Saturday the number one player of MITTC (Malta) proved to be a tough challenge for both Ivan KAHN and Ievgen PRYSHCHEPA thanks to the excellent play of Amirreza ABBASI a player of Iranian descent. The two losses added pressure to the Zoetermeer team. However all three players did what was expected of them in advance by defeating the two players from Malta. The team from the Spanish Super Division TDM Monte de Porreiro also showed its determination to claim the group win. They defeated MITTC 3-0 making the final match decisive. Yannick VOSTES who had recently joined the team set the tone for the afternoon. Martin BETANCOR (Argentina) who had earlier impressed with a win over ABBASI was defeated convincingly with impressive play and sheer force. Ievgen PRYSHCHEPA and Milo de BOER followed suit and the Zoetermeer team did not surrender a single set in a very convincing manner. In Group B held in Croatia’s Varazdin the Spanish team C.E.R Robin Hat Prisco L’Escala emerged successfully at the top of the standings with three wins over TED Sports Club from Turkey TJ Geolog Roznava from Slovakia and STK Starr Croatia. TJ Geolog Roznava finished second. The winning club included Ikar GONZALES YEH Wie Chih and Xavier PEARL. In Group C in Linz Real Club Cajasur Priego from Spain overcame Austria’s SPG Linz and the French Lille Metropole TT. The French club secured the second spot in the group. Real Club Cajasur Priego featured Hampus SODERLUND Carlos FRANCO and Carlos MACHADO. In Karlsruhe Germany the hosts celebrated the victory of their representative ASV Grünwettersbach. Deni KOZUL Rafel TURRINI SHIM Joon and Aljaz GODEC prevailed against the players from Slovakia’s SK Vydrany and the Spanish Club Burgos TDM / UBU – TPF. Burgos finished second in the group.
Good week for Czechia teams
In the Men’s Champions League the opening phase concluded today. The winners of four groups that will proceed to the next phase of the elite club competition in Europe are SolexConsult TT Wiener Neustadt from Austria SKST TESLA Batteries Havirov and HB Ostrov z.s. from Czechia and SPG Felbermayr Wels from Austria. In Group A which was played in Croatia’s Dubrovnik SolexConsult TT Wiener Neustadt recorded all three wins to conclude the opening phase unbeaten. Frane KOJIC Jin UEDA Aleksandr KHANIN and Ivor BAN were seriously challenged only in the match against Poland’s Polski Cukier Gwiazda. The Polish side lost in five matches and ended second in the group. STK Libertas Marinkolor was third and Hungary’s PTE PEAC Kalo-Meh was fourth. In Group C played in Havlíčková Brod host HB Ostrov prevailed against Romania’s CSS-SZAK Odorheiu Secuiesc Austria’s UTTC Paneceo Stockerau and Italian Top Spin Messina EUCI. For HB Ostrov Pavel SIRUCEK David REITSPIES and Tomas TREGLER played crucial roles. In the Second Stage of Group A 1. FC Saarbrücken TT from Germany and AS Pontoise Cergy from France have secured direct placements. In Group B TTC Neu Ulm from Germany and KS Dartom Bogoria Grodzisk Mazowiecki from Poland will compete. Group C features GV Hennebont TT from France and K.S. Dekorglass Dzialdowo from Poland. Group D includes Borussia Dusseldorf from Germany and Sporting Clube De Portugal from Portugal.
KRIVOKAPIC and SKERBINZ U15 Champions in Dimitrovgrad
The crowned champions in the singles event at the Europe Youth Series the 2023 Serbia Open in Dimitrovgrad are Montenegro’s Jaksa KRIVOKAPIC and Austria’s Nina SKERBINZ in the Under 15 Event and Kacper PIWOWAR of England and Lizett FAZEKAS of Hungary in the Under 13 event. In the Under 15 event KRIVOKAPIC defeated his teammate from Montenegro’s team Stefan RADONJIC to clinch the gold. In the semifinals RADONJIC prevailed against Pavol KOKAVEC of Slovakia. In the other semifinal Alexandru POP of Romania was halted in the match against KRIVOKAPIC. Austria’s Nina SKERBINZ overcame Sophie BARCSAI of Hungary in the ultimate stage of the Girls Under 15 Event. The bronze medals also went to Hungarian players. BARCSAI beat her teammate Rebeka NAGY while SKERBINZ prevailed against Johanna PETERY. SKERBINZ and BARCSAI also met in the final of the Mixed Doubles Event and once again Austria’s player was more successful. In the final SKERBINZ and Thao NOWAK prevailed against the Hungarian-Danish combination of BARCSAI and Marcus Ahrenholt JENSEN. Semifinalists are Johan Engberg HAVSTEEN and Sally LOU and Niksa VESOVIC and Emina CERIC of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In the Under 13 event Kacper PIWOWAR added another gold to his record. In the final of the singles he beat Malik SEVERINSEN of Denmark. Bronze medalists are Peadar SHERIDAN of Ireland and David CAPANDA of Serbia. In the Girls category Lizett FAZEKAS also repeated her success from the team’s event. At the last hurdle she prevailed against Szonja SZOGI of Hungary. Swiss Akhyata PATRA and Hungary’s Szofia FEGYVER reached the semifinals. Malik SEVERINSEN of Denmark and Szonja SZOGI of Hungary clinched the title in the Mixed Doubles Event. In the final they overcame Kacper PIWOWAR of England and Lizett FAZEKAS of Hungary. Serbia’s David CAPANDA and Teodora SUDZUM as well as Peadar SHERIDAN of Ireland and Enya HU of Switzerland are semifinalists. The next Youth Series tournament is scheduled for October between the 11th and 15th in Plzen Czechia. After that in the same month Greece will welcome players in Loutraki between the 25th and 29th. The last tournament in the series will be played in Türkiye in Nevsehir in November.
Wins for SKST TESLA Batteries Havirov and SPG Felbermayr Wels
It was a very interesting finish in Group B of the Champions League Men in Havířov Czechia. The last match decided the standings and Havířov emerged as the winner of the group. The team SKST TESLA Batteries secured the first place in Group B and advanced to the second stage of the Champions League thanks to a better set ratio in mutual matches with El Niňo Prague and Belgian Sokan Hoboken. The decisive moment came in the last match which El Niňo Prague won over Sokan Hoboken with a score of 3:1. Havířov’s coach Kamil KOUTNÝ didn’t believe that his team would top the group. “We thought that only a 3-1 victory would secure our advancement but if it’s true that even a 3-2 win is enough for us then it’s simply unreal. Before the first match I didn’t believe that we could compete for victory in the group without Tomáš POLANSKÝ. However Adam ŠTALZER perfectly complemented the excellent pair of Jan VALENTA and Šimon BĚLÍK and the victory over El Niňo Prague in the very first match gave everyone confidence. It’s an incredible success for us. I don’t even know what kind of opponents we might face in the second phase but that doesn’t matter now.” Sokan Hoboken finished in second place in the group and El Niňo Prague came in third. In Group D in Wels SPG Felbermayr Wels remained unbeaten in all three rounds. Polish Global Pharma Orlicz managed to push them to go the full distance but failed to halt their progress to the next stage. The Polish club concluded this phase in the second position while TTC Club Ostrava 2016 from Czechia is third and Spanish CTT Les Borges is fourth. For SPG Felbermayr Wels Andreas LEVENKO Jiri MARTINKO Maciej KOLODZIEJCZYK and Felix WETZEL play.
The Hungarian girls dominated the tournament in Dimitrovgrad
The team events at the second tournament of the Europe Youth Series the 2023 Serbia Open concluded today. At the Sports Complex in Dimitrovgrad champions were crowned after three days of play: Montenegro 1 and England in the boys’ categories and Hungary in the girls’ categories. In the final of the Under 15 Boys’ Event Montenegro’s Stefan RADONJIC Milan VUCETIC and Jaksa KRIVOKAPIC overcame Denmark’s Erik HOEIER and Adam NOTTELMAN dominantly with a 3-0 score. Serbia 2 and Denmark 1 finished third. Under 15 Hungary’s first team composed of Sophie BARCSAI and Nora DOHOCZKI triumphed over the second team with Johanna PETERY and Rebeka NAGY after a closely contested five-match battle. In the Under 13 Boys’ Teams final Kacper PIWOWAR and Abraham SELLADO of England defeated Romania’s Alexandru POP and David TORO with a score of 3-1. POP secured one individual match victory. In the Under 13 Girls’ Team Event Hungary’s Lizett FAZEKAS and Szonja SZÖGI overcame the Swiss duo of Akhyata PATRA and Enya HU. They needed all five matches to secure their victory. FAZEKAS remained unbeaten in singles but she lost in doubles and PATRA overcame SZÖGI in singles.
A Good Start for England in Dimitrovgrad
The second tournament in the Europe Youth Series the 2023 Serbia Open commenced today at the Sports Complex in Dimitrovgrad. On the first day of play the Group stage was on the schedule. In the Under 15 Boys’ Event Montenegro’s Stefan RADONJIC Milan VUCETIC and Jaksa KRIVOKAPIC won Group 1 ahead of Denmark 2 and Serbia 2. In Group 2 the leaders are Serbia’s Borislav RAJIC and Nemanja MARKOVIC. In the Girls’ Under 15 category Hungary’s Sophie BARCSAI and Nora DOHOCZKI lead ahead of Serbia 1 and Hungary 2. In the Under 13 Team Event Kacper PIWOWAR and Abraham SELLADO of England remain unbeaten in four team matches and they are also undefeated in individual duels. After four rounds Romania 1 is in second place and Serbia 1 is third. In the Under 13 Girls’ Team Event Hungary’s Lizett FAZEKAS and Szonja SZÖGI share the top position with Swiss duo Akhyata PATRA and Enya HU. Serbia 1 is in third place after four rounds.
Matches in Wels marked the beginning of the 2023/2024 season in the Champions League.
The first phase of club competitions in the Champions League and Europe Cup is set to commence this week. Group D has already kicked off today. In Wels Austria SPG Felbermayr Wels is meeting TTC Club Ostrava 2016 from the Czech Republic Global Pharma Orlicz from Poland and CTT Les Borges from Spain both today and tomorrow. Group B in Havirov Czech Republic begins on Thursday. SF SKK El Nino Praha from Czechia will compete against the host team SKST Tesla Batteries Havirov TTC Sokah Hoboken from Belgium and Roskilde Bordtennis from Denmark. Groups A and C are scheduled to start on Saturday. In Group A in Dubrovnik Croatia Solex-Consult TTC Wiener Neustadt from Austria will play against Polski Cukier Gwiazda Bydgoszcz from Poland PTE Peac Kalo-Meh from Hungary and the host team STK Libertas Marinkolor. In Group C there are Italy’s Top Spin Messina EUCI the host team HB Ostrov Z.S from Czechia Austria’s Panaceo Stockerau and Romania’s CSS-SZAK Odorheiu Secuiesc. The winners of the groups will advance to Stage Two where in Group A we have 1. FC Saarbrücken TT from Germany and AS Pontoise Cergy from France. In Group B TTC Neu Ulm from Germany and KS Dartom Bogoria Grodzisk Mazowiecki from Poland will compete. In Group C it’s GV Hennebont TT from France and K.S. Dekorglass Dzialdowo from Poland. Group D features Borussia Dusseldorf from Germany and Sporting Clube De Portugal from Portugal. Women’s teams are divided into two groups and all matches commence tomorrow. In Group A in Spain we will see SKST Plus Hodonin from Czechia ALCL TT Grand-Quevilly from France Panathinaikos AC from Greece GIRBAU-VIC TT from Spain and Miró Ganxets Reus from Spain. In Group B we have SH-ITB Budaörsi Sport Club from Hungary TT Moravsky Krumlov from Czechia Tecnigen Linares from Spain TT Joué Les Tours from France and HB Ostrov Z.S from Czechia. The matches will take place in the Czech Republic. In Stage Two the winners and runners-up will progress. Already in Round Two we have the following teams in Group A: KTS Enea Siarkopol Tarnobrzeg from Poland and TTC Novi Sad from Serbia. In Group B: UCAM Cartagena TM from Spain and TT Saint Quentin from France. In Group C: Linz AG Froschberg from Austria and Etival ASRTT from France. In Group D: Metz TT from France and ASD Quattro Mori from Italy.
Second Virtual Table Tennis webinar on Wednesday 27th September
ETTU is pleased to extend an invitation to our second informative webinar on Virtual Table Tennis with a focus on the technical aspects of the first European Virtual Table Tennis Challenge. Event Details Date: Wednesday 27th SeptemberTime: 15:00 CET To register for this informative webinar please click on the following link: Webinar Registration Link Please be aware that the registration deadline is Tuesday 26th September.We strongly recommend registering in advance to ensure your participation. If you missed our initial informative webinar or wish to revisit the content you can find it here. For additional information about Virtual Table Tennis please visit our dedicated page. We eagerly anticipate your active participation and engagement during this webinar.
