The German table tennis is increasingly losing connection to the top of the world after Timo Boll’s international career end. At the World Cup in Qatar, Vice-European champion Benedikt Duda was eliminated on Tuesday afternoon in the third round in singles and also had to accept the double-end alongside Dang Qiu.
Duda initially missed the single round of ultimate in the 2: 4 against the former top ten player Quadri Aruna from Nigeria. The world rankings 13. From the TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt, later on the side of Germany’s top player Dang Qiu (Borussia Düsseldorf), his double game also lost-2: 3 against Sweden’s former world champion pairing Mattias Falck/Kristian Karlson.
“I think he played completely above his limit against me today,” said Duda after his lost singles against Aruna. “But I have to recognize that. He deservedly won. Unfortunately.”
Men’s team of the DTTB does not convince
The men of the German Table tennis-Bund (DTTB) could only be spectators in Doha in Doha for the first time in 22 years in the quarterfinals of all three competitions (single, doubles and mixed). The world rankings Franziska is the last trump card from the contingent of national coach Jörg Roßkopf on Wednesday (10.40) against the South Korean Cho Daesong for the move into the round of 16.
The former world ranking list of Dimitrij Ovtcharov had not started at short notice due to intervertebral disc problems.
source:
- German press agency
- Sports information service
