After his taxi accident on the sidelines of the WTT tournament in London, the German table tennis champion Kay Stumper should be able to make his comeback at Bundesliga club Post SV Mühlhausen in the middle of next month. Mühlhausen’s coach Erik Schreyer promised this in response to a “SID” request.
“We were of course quite shocked at first, but Kay was very lucky in misfortune. Luckily, after he returned home, our doctors only diagnosed a few muscular problems, so Kay should be available to us in our important November games,” explained Schreyer.
“If he had been sitting in the passenger seat and not sleeping behind the driver, it might not have ended so lightly.”
Stumper wanted to take a taxi to the airport last weekend after his quarter-final exit in the $300,000 tournament in the Star Contender category in the English capital. However, in hectic traffic, a bus rammed the side of the national player’s vehicle.
Due to the crash and the subsequent investigations, Stumper missed his return flight to Germany and therefore also missed his appearance in the league game at 1. FC Saarbrücken-TT.
Table tennis: Mühlhausen has no chance in the Bundesliga without Stumper
Without the ex-Düsseldorfer, who won 3-2 in German duels on the island against veteran Dimitrij Ovtcharov and lost 3-0 against eventual tournament winner Dang Qiu, the Thuringians lost 3-0 last Sunday.
Mühlhausen has a groundbreaking playing schedule to cope with in November. Apart from three TTBL matches, Stumper’s team has the first leg of the round of 16 in the Champions League against the Czech representative HB Ostrov (November 11th) and the quarter-final duel in the German Cup for a place in the Final Four against cup defenders and champions TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen (November 19th) on the program.