After the 0:3 defeat against Fulda last Friday, Borussia Düsseldorf is back on the road to victory in the table tennis Bundesliga (TTBL). The current German champions beat the promoted team TTC OE Bad Homburg 1987 3:0. The apparently clear result says nothing about the tension on site.
The first game was a real challenge: Dang Qiu and Csaba Andras faced each other in the Düsseldorf ARAG CenterCourt. The Olympian Qiu started the game against his opponent with an 11:8 in the opening set, the second set was closer at 13:15 for the player from Taunus. It continued like that: 11:5 for Qiu, 8:11 for Andras. And then came the set of the evening: At 2:2, Qiu was already 3:7 behind, but then turned around and finally won 11:8.
Stumper and Källberg close the bag
Kay Stumper and Anton Källberg also had to fight again in their matches against Yuma Tsuboi and Kristian Karlsson. Nevertheless, Stumper won his match 3:1, then Källberg won the Swedish duel, securing the winning point for Düsseldorf. With the 3:0 win against Bad Homburg, Borussia improved its position in the table and is now in fifth place in the TTBL with a record of 4:2. Anton Källberg is satisfied with the game: “We knew it would be a tough, close game. It feels good to win again, of course. We all played well today. Kristian and I were both fully focused and went into the game with great excitement. It just happens that we fight in the same team for a week and then face each other as opponents. We both wanted to win the game no matter what.”
Now the Düsseldorf team, who played today without Timo Boll, are taking a breather from the league. The next game will be the away match against TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau on October 9th. Bad Homburg will face Bad Königshofen on September 21st.
The 3rd matchday at a glance
1. FC Saarbrücken TT – SV Werder Bremen 2:3
Patrick Franziska – Marcelo Aguirre 2:3 (11:8, 5:11, 9:11, 11:7, 8:11)
Wang Lichen – Kirill Gerasimenko 1:3 (4:11, 10:12, 11:6, 9:11)
Darko Jorgic – Mattias Falck 3:1 (11:8, 8:11, 12:10, 11:8)
Patrick Franziska – Kirill Gerassimenko 3:0 (11:9, 11:8, 11:5)
Wang Lichen/Darko Jorgic – Mattias Falck/Marcelo Aguirre 1:3 (10:12, 11:5, 9:11, 8:11)
Borussia Düsseldorf – TTC OE Bad Homburg 3:0
Dang Qiu – Csaba Andras 3:2 (11:8, 13:15, 11:5, 8:11, 11:8)
Kay Stumper – Yuma Tsuboi 3:1 (11:8, 8:11, 11:7, 11:7)
Anton Källberg – Kristian Karlsson 3:1 (11:5, 12:14, 11:5, 11:3)
Saturday, September 7
7pm: TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell – TSV Bad Königshofen
Sunday, September 8
3.30 p.m.: BV Borussia 09 Dortmund – ASC Grünwettersbach
Monday, September 16
7pm: TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt – Post SV Mühlhausen
Monday, September 23
7pm: TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen – TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau
Author: Julian Hörndlein
Article image above: Dang Qiu from Borussia Düsseldorf (Photo: Jörg Fuhrmann)
