The German table tennis national player Patrick Franziska missed the round of 16 at the World Championships in South Africa on Wednesday (May 24th, 2023) after a hard fight.
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.
Dang Qiu and Dimitrij Ovtcharov later in action
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.