Table tennis European championship fever is rising

A collective sigh of relief from the table tennis women from Linz AG Froschberg: After the 3:44-hour thriller in St. Quentin with the decision in the “Golden Match”, the way is clear to the Champions League semi-finals, where title favorites Tarnobrzeg await becomes. “I’m proud of our team, we defied all difficulties and never gave up. It’s great that we didn’t lose our nerve,” said club president Günther Renner, who is dreaming of a third title in the premier class after 2009 and 2013.

While Sofia Polcanova, who lost her two matches against Polina Mikhailova and Linda Bergström 2:3, and young hopeful Anastasia Sterner continued their World Cup preparations in Düsseldorf, preparations for the European Championships from October 15th to 20th in Linz are over 300 participants from up to 50 nations started.

At the Upper Austria Ladies of the tennis aces in the Design Center, the advertising drum was beaten at the show table, state governor Thomas Stelzer, Upper Austria’s association president Hans Friedinger (of course equipped with a red-white-red scarf) and the OK head of the European Championships, Elisabeth Schrenk, had a lot to discuss.

The 51-year-old Viennese was an active inline speed skater and crowned her career with the world championship title in 2001. Schrenk is a member of the Gender Equality Committee of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU).