Table Tennis: Two DTTB successes in finishing the feeder

The world premiere of the WTT feeding tournaments in Düsseldorf ended with two wins for the German table tennis runners.

In the third and final round of the new competition in the hall of the German Table Tennis Center in Düsseldorf, the team’s Olympic silverman Patrick Franziska secured the title in the doubles and European team champion Chantal Mantz together with his national teammate Yuan Wan in the women’s doubles. . Tobias Hippler / Kilian Ort won bronze in the men’s doubles.

In the final, Franziska easily won the second European Championship runner-up Ovidiu Ionescun (Romania) 4-0. The Top 20 successfully averted their defeat against Bundesliga pros at Post SV Mhlhausen in Saarbrcken in the 3: 2 Cup semi-finals.

The third title in the mixed series of the former World Championship was the third medal of the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) in the men’s singles at the third entry point of the new tournament promoter at WTT. In the first two rounds, German champion Benedikt Duda won the premiere of gold in the absence of injured DTTB stars Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov, and in the second round he stopped the false positive corona test bronze.

The first international tournament since the beginning of the pandemic

The Dusseldorf feeders were the first international tournaments in Germany after the German Open in Magdeburg in early 2020 and the ensuing corona pandemic.

The format forms the lowest level of the new tournament pyramid below the top events of the Grand Smashes, Champions, Star Contenders and Contender series, which are basically designed as a springboard for younger or longer-injured players to the next level. .

The alignment of Timo Bolls’ first three feeders by DTTB, supported by host Boll-Klub Borussia Düsseldorf, also signaled a sports policy signal.

Through the joint organization of the three NRW metropolitan tournaments, WTT on the one hand and DTTB on the other tried to get closer after almost two years of separation. Deepening contacts is still being discussed.