Ovtcharov's effort goes in vain as Austria shocks Germany to win European Table Tennis Champion title

Stefan Fegerl became the hero of Austrian Table Tennis overnight as he won the crucial point for his country as they beat Germany 3-2 in the finals of the European Table Tennis Championships at Ekaterinburg.

Fegerl beat Patrick Baum in the deciding match of the tie.

Results:

Austria beat Germany

Robert Gardos beat Patrick Baum 7-11, 8-11, 11-8, 11-7, 13-11
Dimitrij Ovtcharov beat Stefan Fegerl 10-12, 19-17, 11-7, 12-14, 12-10
Daniel Habesohn beat Patrick Franziska 11-9, 11-7, 10-12, 10-12, 11-5
Gardos lost to Ovtcharov 11-8, 8-11, 8-11, 5-11
Fegerl beat Baum 11-9, 11-8, 11-6

Table Tennis is called Tischtennis in Germany.

Timo stars for Borussia in the first leg of the European Champions League

Sharath Kamal is nursing an injury but his team, Borussia Dusseldorf won the first leg of the European Champions League 3-1. The hero was Timo Boll who beat Ovtcharov and Samsonov.

Borussia Dusseldorf – Fakel Gazproma Orenburg 3:1

Timo BOLL – Vladimir SAMSONOV 3:0 (11:3, 11:7, 14:12)
Patrick FRANZISKA – Dimitrij OVTCHAROV 1:3 (2:11, 11:6, 8:11, 7:11)
Panagiotis GIONIS – Alexey SMIRNOV 3:1 (11:3, 11:5, 8:11, 11:4)
Timo BOLL – Dimitrij OVTCHAROV 3:2 (7:11, 11:7, 8:11, 11:7, 12:10)

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Achanta Sharath Kamal and team reach European Champions League (ECL) finals

Sharath Kamal, Timo Boll and Patrick Franziska clicked as a team to reach the finals of the European Champions (Table Tennis) League.

Borussia Düsseldorf won 3-1 against Chartres ASTT. Timo won two points for the top German team while Sharath again showed his class by beating veteran Damien Eloi. Chartres was unlucky that Gao Ning was unable to play due to injury.

Borussia will now fight for the title against Dimitrij Ovtcharov and team.

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Sharath Kamal seeded seventh at the Czech Republic ITTF World Tour event

Indian ace Sharath Kamal is participating in the GAC Group 2013 ITTF World Tour, Czech Open, Major Series 21 Aug 2013 - 25 Aug 2013, Olomouc, CZECH REPUBLIC. Owing to his World No. 64 ranking, Sharath is the seventh seed in the tournament.

In the doubles, he will be partnering young Ricardo Walther of Germany. Incidentally, Ricardo is a team mate of Sharath's at Borussia Dusseldorf, which also boasts of other big names such as Timo Boll, Patrick Baum and Cristian Suss.

The Czech tournament will be a very good warm up for Sharath as Borussia Dusseldorf have a match against TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau on 31st August.

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Seedings (Numbers at the end are world rankings)
 
1 TAKAKIWA Taku JPN 43
2 FRANZISKA Patrick GER 45
3 CHAN Kazuhiro JPN 48
4 SKACHKOV Kirill RUS 49
5 SHIBAEV Alexander RUS 59
6 MATSUMOTO Cazuo BRA 63
7 ACHANTA Sharath Kamal 64
8 LIVENTSOV Alexey 71