Titles, sets, points: The German Table Tennis League kicks off the 2024/25 season
On August 23, 2024, the Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) will kick off the season with the opening match between SV Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund. Fans can look forward to exciting matches and numerous top stars in the 2024/25 season. Media partner Dyn broadcasts all TTBL matches live and promotes young talent with the Move Your Sport bonus.
Who will be German champion? Who will win the cup? Who will fight for a place in the play-offs and who will fight against relegation? The German Table Tennis League (TTBL) will kick off an exciting and spectacular 2024/25 season on August 23, 2024 with a historic match and twelve teams battling for points over 22 match days.
The title race will kick off with SV Werder Bremen against promoted team and TTBL debutants Borussia Dortmund on Friday, August 23, 2024 at 7 p.m. The first matchday will continue with a packed day of table tennis on Sunday, August 25: runner-up 1. FC Saarbrücken TT starts at TTC OE Bad Homburg (2 p.m.); last year's semi-finalist TSV Bad Königshofen welcomes Post SV Mühlhausen (3.30 p.m.); defending champion Borussia Düsseldorf starts against ASC Grünwettersbach (5 p.m.).
The top match of Matchday 1 will take place on Monday, August 26. Two play-off contenders, TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen with Olympic fourth-placed Hugo Calderano and TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell with new signing Dimitrij Ovtcharov, will meet (6 p.m.). The season opener between TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt and TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau (7 p.m.) will conclude the season.
Numerous top stars - Boll with farewell season
Olympic medal winners, former world champions and more: the elite of European table tennis will also be competing in the Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL) in 2024/25.
All table tennis fans can therefore look forward to an exciting and highly interesting season, as a total of 15 of the top 50 players in the world rankings will be playing in the TTBL, including Olympic fourth-placed Hugo Calderano (TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen), German national players Patrick Franziska (1. FC Saarbrücken TT) and Dang Qiu (Borussia Düsseldorf), the 2021 doubles world champion Mattias Falck (SV Werder Bremen), Europe Top 16 winner Darko Jorgic (1. FC Saarbrücken TT) and many more.
It will be a very special season for Düsseldorf's superstar Timo Boll, because after the end of his international career, the table tennis superstar is now going on a farewell tour in the TTBL after almost 30 years of tireless commitment. “I'm really looking forward to next season - to go everywhere again, to say goodbye everywhere,” Boll had already said at the Liebherr TTBL final. Now the countdown is on for all fans to see the 43-year-old live in the hall once again.
Media partner Dyn with extensive coverage
In the 2024/25 season, Dyn will continue to show all matches of the German Table Tennis League (TTBL) live. In addition, one match per matchday will be shown live on the Dyn Table Tennis YouTube channel. The German Table Tennis Cup can be seen on Dyn from the round of 16 onwards and with the participation of a first division team with home court.
Table tennis will continue to play a major role at Dyn beyond the matches. In addition to the popular “Dyn Plattenupdate” format, in which Dennis Heinemann looks back on the most important moments of the past match day and other highlight formats, an interview format is now following. In “Dyn bittet zu Tisch”, Dennis Heinemann interviews TTBL players. This gives fans exclusive sporting and personal insights. “Dyn bittet zu Tisch” will appear 12 times and last around 15 minutes per issue.
Move Your Sport bonus - 10 percent of every Dyn subscription for the promotion of young talent
Dyn Media will continue to expand its Move Your Sport initiative in the coming season. Subscribers have the opportunity to donate ten percent of their monthly subscription amount to one of the five Dyn sports. It is up to each subscriber to decide which one. The money is paid out to the partner leagues, which have pledged to use this amount to promote children's and youth sport.
In table tennis, cooperation with schools is to be strengthened at regional level, particularly at the Bundesliga locations, in order to bring children and young people into contact with the sport at an early age, to get them interested in table tennis and to promote talent in a targeted and sustainable manner. With the Move Your Sport bonus, all Dyn subscribers who have specified table tennis as their preferred sport in their account are thus making an active contribution to promoting young table tennis talent in Germany.
Featured images in the text:
Hugo Calderano (Photo: BeLa Sportfoto)
Timo Boll (Photo: BeLa Sportfoto)
Start of the season at Dyn (Photo: Dyn Media)
Table tennis school AG's (Photo: Dyn Media)