2013 Table Tennis European Championships

The 32 Table Tennis Championship took place from 13 October in Schwechat, Austria in the multiverse of 4. This time the team competitions were held back, which take place every two years. The German men's team was able to defend her title, and thus set the record of Sweden's six titles in series. The German women's team was able to get the first time after 15 years, once again the title.

Results

Gentlemen

Individual competition

Due to the cancellation of Timo Boll, Dimitrij Ovtcharov is set at position one. Besides started with Patrick Baum, Bastian Steger, Patrick Franziska and Ruwen Filus four other German players in the main draw. Players who were not set for the peloton had to qualify through a qualifying round, which was played in the group system. Only the group winners came on. Benedikt Duda won against Ursus Slatinsek from Slovenia ( 3-1 ) and the Icelander Magnus Magnusson (3-0). The last game he lost 0-3 to the playing for Poland native Chinese Wang Zeng Yi and reached number 2 in group 11 So that he could not qualify for the main draw.

Doubles competition

Team competition

Summary

The team competitions were purely played in the knock-out system. These took place between the 4th and 7th of October. There were in addition to the Champions Division, which played off the European champions played, the niederklassigeren Challenge and Standard Division. For the Lord competition, Germany won for the sixth time in a row gold. In the final, the surprise team of Greece was defeated 3-1.

Although Belarus led after the first two single 2-0 against Greece, the Greeks were able to turn the tide and win in the end 3-2. In the other semi-final Germany won against Russia. Despite the non-participation of Timo Boll the team of head coach Jörg Rosskopf moved without losing a match to the final.

In the final, the German team by Dimitrij Ovtcharov could take the lead. Patrick Baum was the second single a 2-0 set lead against Panagiotis Gionis as of yet. At the beginning of the fourth Single Page led the Germans. Dimitrij Ovtcharov defeated the defense specialists Panagiotis Gionis 3-1 and Germany for the sixth time in a row champions.

Schedule

Women

Individual competition

Doubles competition

Team competition

Summary

The competition mode was the same as in the men. Since the German team in their qualifying group was first, it was set for the quarterfinals. The amazing thing was that the defending champions from the Netherlands failed already in the second round. In the end, Germany sat against Romania by 3-1 and became the first time in 15 years European Champion.

In the next round, the hosts played from Austria as well as the men against the defending champion. For the Austrian Women's meeting had a better outcome, since the Netherlands were defeated 3-1.

In the final, Germany and Romania competed against each other. Already in qualifying, the two teams had to compete against each other, while the team of national coach Schoepp Jie won 3-2. The first single was defeated Kristin Silbereisen the Romanian number one Daniela Dodean, in the second game had Han Ying against Elizabeta Samara even fight off a match point, but they won in the final set. The third single was about five sets. In the fourth game Han Ying scored the third victory. After about three and a half hours Germany won 3-1 and was the fifth time European champion.

Schedule

Audience response

The spectator interest fell short of expectations. So the multiverse with its 2500 seats had often empty. So the final of the women's teams and also the male finals pursued only about 150 spectators, including were still players, coaches, referees and administrators. The reasons you leads to the absence of Timo Boll and Werner Schlager. Even extensive live Überragungen on Austrian television prompted the fans to follow the action rather be at home. In addition, the circumstances in the construction of the multiverse from the Schwechat population are perceived as so scandalous that they would rather stays away from this building. [ 1 viewer ]

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