The German desk tennis group handed the primary staying power check on the Ecu Staff Championship in Zadar. Benedikt Duda, Patrick Franziska and Dang Qiu beat medal contenders Denmark 3-0 to advance to the quarter-finals. “That was a statement today. We played a very good game,” mentioned Duda. The following opponent is the Ecu Championship Croatia welcomes on Friday.
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The German girls’s nationwide group will compete in opposition to Sweden within the spherical of 16. In a blank 3-0 spherical of 16 win in opposition to outsiders England, Annette Kaufman, Sabine Iciness and the long-injured Nina Mittelham scored issues for the protecting champions of their first look on the match.
The Danes, with their Bundesliga execs Anders Lind (Borussia Dortmund) and Jonathan Groth (TTC Fulda-Maberzel), had been the hardest warring parties the Germans may just face as workforce winners within the first knockout spherical. From the German standpoint, it used to be necessary that Duda, 8th on this planet rating, defeated former two-time Ecu champion Groth in 5 units within the first fit.
Duda very assured
Franziska and Dang Qiu then gained their video games with out shedding a suite. “When the draw came, we swallowed for a moment,” Duda mentioned. “But we are here with numbers 8, 14 and 15 in the world. They have to get three points against us first. We go into the next games with this confidence.”
In case of every other victory, nationwide trainer Jörg Roskopf’s group may just face the most important favourite France within the semi-finals on Saturday. For nine-time Ecu group champions Germany, that is the primary Ecu Championship match for the reason that retirement of Tim Ball. The previous collection winners want to regain the Ecu identify in Zadar, which they misplaced within the ultimate to Sweden in Malmo in 2023.
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