Patrick Franziska with a white vest
The 1st FC Saarbrücken-TT maintains its place in the top group of the Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL). The cup winner won 3:1 at promoted Mainz 05 on matchday 5.
2 wins, 6:0 sets! With a flawless record, Patrick Franziska led the guests from Saarbrücken to victory. The national player remained without a set loss against Andrej Andrei Putuntica as well as in the last singles match of the day against Luka Mladenovic. Takuya Jin secured the third point for the Saarlanders, also against Luka Mladenovic, in five sets (6:11, 4:11, 11:5, 11:8, 6:11). Yuto Muramatsu secured the point of honor for the promoted team against Cedric Nuytinck.
Friday evening against Bad Königshofen
While Saarbrücken will host TSV Bad Königshofen on Friday, November 11 to kick off matchday 6 in the TTBL, 1. FSV Mainz 05 will travel to SV Werder Bremen in the far north one day later.
The 5th matchday in overview
Sunday, November 6
1. FSV Mainz 05 – 1. FC Saarbrücken TT 1:3
Luka Mladenovic - Takuya Jin 2:3 (6:11, 4:11, 11:5, 11:8, 6:11)
Andrei Putuntica - Patrick Franziska 0:3 (4:11, 8:11, 2:11)
Yuto Muramatsu - Cedric Nuytinck 3:1 (11:8, 11:5, 8:11, 11:4)
Luka Mladenovic - Patrick Franziska 0:3 (11:13, 6:11, 9:11)
Borussia Düsseldorf – TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen 3:0
Dang Qiu – Can Akkuzu 3:0 (11:8, 12:10, 11:5)
Kay Stumper - Alvaro Robles 3:2 (11:8, 11:9, 10:12, 7:11, 11:4)
Timo Boll - Samuel Kulczycki 3:0 (12:10, 11:4, 11:4)
Post SV Mühlhausen – TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell 3:0
Steffen Mengel -Quadri Aruna 3:0 (11:8, 11:7, 11:7)
Ovidiu Ionescu - Alexandre Cassin 3:0 (11:4, 11:9, 11:8)
Daniel Habesohn --Fan Bo Meng 3:0 (13:11, 14:12, 11:9)
ASV Grünwettersbach – SV Werder Bremen 3:2
Xi Wang - Cristian Pletea 3:0 (11:6, 11:4, 11:7)
Deni Kozul - Mattias Falck 2:3 (11:8, 11:5, 1:11, 4:11, 9:11)
Tiago Apolonia - Kirill Gerassimenko 1:3 (5:11, 6:11, 11:7, 5:11)
Xi Wang - Mattias Falck 3:1 (11:7, 7:11, 11:7, 11:7)
Apolonia / Walther - Gerassimenko / Pletea 3:1 (11:9, 4:11, 11:9, 11:4)
TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt – TTC Neu-Ulm 0:3
Benedikt Duda - Maksim Grebnev 1:3 (9:11, 11:5, 9:11, 5:11)
Omar Assar - Vladimir Sidorenko 1:3 (12:10, 5:11, 6:11, 6:11)
Romain Ruiz - Lev Katsman 2:3 (11:9, 7:11, 11:2, 9:11, 11:13)
Monday, November 7
7 p.m.: TSV Bad Königshofen – TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau