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.

Sharath Kamal, Timo Boll and rest of Borussia Dusseldorf team to play against Chartres

Switch on your connections and watch Sharath Kamal's team in action at the Champions League. It's Borussia Düsseldorf vs Chartres (Tennis de Table France). The tie starts at 10:30 PM India time and 7 PM Germany time.

Sharath's team consists of Timo Boll, Patrick Baum, Ricardo Walther, and Christian Suss. Chartres has Gao Ning, Garell, Gardos and Damien. It remains to be seen who actually plays. 


Update: Borussia suffered a shock defeat, partly due to Timo Boll coming back from an injury. However, Sharath gave a great account of himself against the World class Gao Ning.

Editor

Sharath's good performance at the German League

Sharath is the top player for his club in the Bundesliga. He has made a good start to the season. He missed playing Jan-ove Waldner though.

Here are his results this season:

Beat Jiri Vrablik 3-2
Beat Chu Yan Leung 3-1
Beat Kenji Matsudaira 3-0
Beat Robert Gardos 3-1
Beat Adrian Dodean 3-0
Lost to Adrian Crisan 0-3
Beat Erik Bottroff 3-1
Beat Bin Zhou 3-1
Lost to Keinath Thomas 2-3
Lost to Robert Svensson 2-3
Lost to Wang Xi 1-3
Lost to Bastian Steger 0-3