Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Patrick Franziska missed the doubles final at the Table Tennis World Championships in South Africa.
Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Patrick Franziska missed the doubles final at the Table Tennis World Championships in South Africa.
The two German national players lost in the semifinals in 2:3 sets against Jang Woojin and Lim Jonghoon. The two South Koreans were already in the final at the 2021 World Cup.
The 34-year-old Ovtcharov (TTC Neu-Ulm) and the 30-year-old Franziska (1. FC Saarbrücken) had already secured the bronze medal before this defeat, because a third place at a table tennis world championship is not played separately. After losing the first round, they won the second and third sets 11:5 and 11:8. The fourth set was the tightest of all, but went to the South Koreans 11-9. They then also won the deciding set with 11:5.
Source: Stern
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