Without the international early retailer Timo Boll, the German men at the table tennis World Cup in Doha threatens a debacle after a “black Tuesday”.
Through the KO for the European Championship second Benedikt Duda in the third individual round and that of Duda and Dang Qiu in the double round of duvets, only top player Patrick Franziska can prevent the weakest result in singles since 2003.
In the meantime, the tournament has also ended in the women’s competitions for shooting star Annett Kaufmann. The junior world champion left her second singles and also missed the quarter-finals in doubles with Xiaona Shan. The players of national coach Tamara Boros are still among the best 16 in the world in the World Cup in Qatar with Ying Han and Sabine Winter in the top 32 and with the surprise double Winter/Yuan Wan.
The men of the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) could only be spectators on the Golf in the quarterfinals of all three competitions for the first time in 22 years. The world rankings Franziska fights as the last trump card from the contingent of national coach Jörg Roßkopf on Wednesday (10: 40/dyn) against the South Korean Cho Daesong first to move into the round of 16.
Kaufmann sold Chen Xingong, 2: 4 against the Chinese world ranking third, but ultimately missed a sensation. With Shan, the German champion’s hopes for the first move in a German women’s double in a World Cup quarter-finals have been unfulfilled since 2007.
Meanwhile, Duda experienced a day to forget. The 31-year-old also failed in six sets at the former top 10 player Quadri Aruna from Nigeria and later with Qiu with 2: 3 to Sweden’s former world champion pairing of Mattias Falck/Kristian Karlsson.
DTTB hopeful merchant went out of the box after a largely convincing appearance against Chen raised. “I am very satisfied and saw that I am with the top players at eye level. I have set an exclamation mark: you have to be careful in the future. I will come!”
In contrast to Kaufmann, Duda failed somewhat unexpectedly. “I’m already disappointed,” said the Gummersbacher: “I made a few bad decisions.”
Kaufmann had already left Franziska in the mixed in the opening match. For Duda, too, in the mixed doubles with WAN that had already come in the first round. The former world ranking list of Dimitrij Ovtcharov had not started at short notice due to intervertebral disc problems. Qiu and Ricardo Walther left the second single round.