The German table tennis national player Patrick Franziska missed the round of 16 at the World Championships in South Africa.
The world number 17. from the Champions League winner 1. FC Saarbrücken lost in the third round in 3:4 sets against the Portuguese Joao Geraldo. The 30-year-old Franziska caught up a 1:3 deficit in Durban. However, he lost the decisive seventh set 6:11.
European champion Dang Qiu (Borussia Düsseldorf) and Olympic bronze medalist Dimitrij Ovtcharov (TTC Neu-Ulm) won’t play their third round games until the evening.