AFTER VICTORY AGAINST BREMEN: DÜSSELDORF MOVES TO THE TOP OF THE TABLE
The German Table Tennis League (TTBL) has a new league leader after the first three games of match day 3: Borussia from Düsseldorf remain unbeaten. Timo Boll's team prevailed against SV Werder Bremen in a narrow 3:2 victory.
"It was a really hard-fought game," says Timo Boll after the last rally. The effort is written all over his face. Shortly before, he had won the redeeming points against Christian Pletea and Marcelo Aguirre in the final doubles match with Kay Stumper.
Källberg gets off to a dream start
Anton Källberg had set an exclamation mark right at the start of the match with his 3:0 win against Christian Pletea. He won the sets 11:7, 11:2 and 11:8. His team-mate Kay Stumper then had a tougher time from Düsseldorf's point of view, losing 3-0 to Mattias Falck.
Boll puts Borussia ahead
Timo Boll finally put Borussia ahead with a 3:1 win against Marcelo Aguirre, then Mattias Falck equalized for Bremen with a 3:1 win against Anton Källberg. In the end, it went to the final double, which finally gave Düsseldorf the winning point.
Overview of the 3rd matchday
Post SV Mühlhausen – TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell 3:1
Daniel Habesohn – Ruwen Filus 3:2 (11:5, 9:11, 6:11, 11:9, 11:8)
Ovidiu Ionescu – Fan Bo Meng 1:3 (11:9, 4:11, 9:11, 9:11)
Steffen Mengel – Qing Yu Meng 3:0 (11:9, 11:9, 11:7)
Daniel Habesohn – Fan Bo Meng 3:1 (7:11, 11:7, 11:9, 11:7)
Borussia Düsseldorf – SV Werder Bremen 3:2
Anton Källberg – Christian Pletea 3:0 (11:7, 11:2, 11:8)
Kay Stumper – Mattias Falck 0:3 (11:12, 8:11, 6:11)
Timo Boll – Marcelo Aguirre 3:1 (11:7, 9:11, 11:7, 11:7)
Anton Källberg – Mattias Falck 1:3 (9:11, 11:5, 12:14, 3:11)
Timo Boll / Kay Stumper – Christian Pletea / Marcelo Aguirre 3:1 (11:8, 11:9, 5:11, 11:5)
TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt – TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau 3:0
Benedikt Duda – Maciej Kubik 3:0 (11:3, 11:8, 11:9)
Romain Ruiz – Yi-Hsin Feng 3:2 (8:11, 12:10, 11:4, 4:11, 11:9)
Adrien Rassenfosse – Patrick Baum 3:2 (7:11, 12:10, 11:7, 7:11, 12:10)
Thursday, 07. September
7 p.m.: TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen - 1. FSV Mainz 05
7 p.m.: TSV Bad Königshofen - 1. FC Saarbrücken-TT
Text: Julian Hörndlein
Featured image above: Timo Boll (Foto: Fuhrmann)