10/05/2010 – Germany is the leading team in the Group C of the Championship Division in the World Team Championships in Moscow. Women are seeded no. two in the group B. Two years ago in China’s Guangzhou Germany suffered defeat in Men’s https://www.ettu.org 10/05/2010 – Germany is the leading team in the Group C of the Championship Division in the World Team Championships in Moscow. Women are seeded no. two in the group B. Two years ago in China’s Guangzhou Germany suffered defeat in Men’s Teams Event in the round of 8. The team has been played without Timo BOLL and suffered defeat against Korea. This time as always German’s aspirations are high. “China is the hot favorite but we have a strong time too and like in Beijing we will resume the battle. I hope that I will be in top shape until Moscow. There are also many other strong teams on our way to the medal ” said Timo BOLL. Dimitrij OVTCHAROV still remembers the duel at the Olympic Games 2008: “Of course we want to win a medal. At least I do not yet have a medal from World Championships. Two years ago we have played the final of the Olympic Games. This year we want to reach the final too and be a threat to the Chinese there.” In Group stages Germany will face Japan Croatia Denmark Spain and Hungary. “We are in a very strong group but we have a good chance to proceed into the next round ” added Patrick BAUM. Coach Richard PRAUSE pointed at Germany Asian teams as top favorites for the medals: “China as the title holder and Olympic Champion is the top favourite. Next to them there will be a hot race for the medals by our team South Korea Japan Hong Kong Singapore and Chinese Taipei. Despite three continental titles in a row we must not forget our European opponents. We are in an equal group of strong teams. Especially the Japanese are verydangerous for us. We respect all opponents in this group. Therefore we will be very well prepared.” The German women’s team hopes that European Champion WU Jiaduo will get in shape right in time. She suffred from a broken rib and could not practice for a couple of days. Girls are in Group with Singapore Netherlands Spain Czech Republic and USA. Jorg BITZIGEIO: “All Asian adversaries in our group are very strong. Next to them we will face some of the strongest teams in Europe. It is a big challenge for us. Anyway our goal is to enter the quarter finals. All of us have to play very well throughout the whole tournament for that.” GERMAN TEAMMenTimo BOLL (Borussia D??ldorf) 29 Years old World ranking: 3Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (Royal Villette Charleroi/Belgium) 21 Years old World ranking: 15Christian SUSS (Borussia D??ldorf) 24 Years old World ranking: 24Bastian STEGER (TTC Frickenhausen) 29 Years old World ranking: 25Patrick BAUM (TTC Zugbr?? Grenzau) 22 Years old World ranking: 34 WomenWU Jiaduo (FSV Kroppach) 32 Years old World ranking: 22Kristin SILBEREISEN (TV Busenbach) 25 Years old World ranking: 48Elke SCHALL (DJK TuS Essen-Holsterhausen) 36 Years old World ranking: 50Petrissa SOLJA (TTSV Saarlouis-Fraulautern) 16 Years old World ranking: 93Sabine WINTER (TSV Schwabhausen) 17 Years old World ranking: 101 CoachesDirk SCHIMMELPFENNIG (Sports Director) Men: Richard PRAUSE Jorg ROSSKOPF Women: Jorg BITZIGEIO Eva JELER (by Simone HINZ courtesy of DTTB) Photo: Patrick BAUM and Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (Photo Roscher)

05/05/2010 – Under the guidance of Sweden’s Emanuel CHRISTIANSSON the Greek capital city of Athens staged the course from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th April 2010. “Greece has recently decided to restructure their coach education system; t 05/05/2010 – Under the guidance of Sweden’s Emanuel CHRISTIANSSON the Greek capital city of Athens staged the course from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th April 2010. “Greece has recently decided to restructure their coach education system; the first level was conducted by Mrs Katy SPANOU last year” explained Emanuel CHRISTIANSSON. “Thanks to assistance from ETTU and ITTF they have now finalised four seminars for the second level and in May a Level Three Course will be held in Marathon.” “A total of 45 students attended the course in Athens coming from throughout Greece” explained Emanuel CHRISTIANSSON. “The atmosphere was very positive and the participants showed a lot of interest in the subjectsthat were covered; it was clear that there was a lot of knowledge in the group and thus discussions were invaluable.”.Certainly when service techniques were being discussed the interest level was very high.”Discussions focused on how different techniques can be varied and give more possibilities in the game with theoretical sessions about the basics of tactics being followed by practical sessions” continued Emanuel CHRISTIANSSON. “The final subject to be covered was as to how coaches could work with individual players which led to discussions onleadership roles.”(by Ian Marshall courtesy of ITTF) “A total of 45 students attended the course in Athens coming from throughout Greece”

04/05/2010 – In the Austria Men’s Bundesliga SVS Niederosterreich recorded two victories in the semi final against Stockerau. In the other semi final Wels/1 also showed superb play and overcame Ligist/Graz/1. In women’s semifinal of the

01/05/2010 – Both finals in men’s and Women’s Singles Event at the French National Championships brought encounters between top seeds. In both occasions players listed as no. one prevailed. Christophe LEGOUT won the title in the Men&#821

30/04/2010 – In the quarterfinal of the Men’s Singles Event at the French national Championships top seeded Christophe LEGOUT beat Brice OLLIVIER to reach penultimate stage. In Nimes for the place in the final tomorrow he will play against Ab