After second-leg of 2017 ETTU TTCL Men semi-finals, Fakel Gazproma Orenburg booked place in the finals after beating Saarbruecken 3:0 (first leg 3:1). There they will be accompanied by ten times TTCLM winner Borussia Duesseldorf, which struggled against 2015/2016 TTCLM champion Pontoise Cergy 3:1 (first leg 2:3). By this win, Borussia took revenge on Pontoise Cergy for the elimination in last season’s TTCL semi-finals.
2017 Table Tennis Champions League Men finals are on schedule in May 2017. Tickets for the first-leg, which will take place at Borussia’s Arag CenterCourt on May 7, may be bought from:
https://www.borussia-duesseldorf.com/fanshop-tickets/tickets/hardcover/
Full semi-finals results:
TTC Fakel Gazproma Orenburg – FC Saarbruecken TT 3:0 (6:1 on aggregate)
Dimitrij Ovtcharov – Thiago Apolonia 3:0 (11:5, 11:5, 11:8)
Vladimir Samsonov – Patrick Baum 3:1 (11:9, 11:5, 9:11, 8:11, 11:3)
Jun Mizutani – Patrick Franziska w.o. (Franziska wasn’t able to play due to injury during warm-up)
Borussia Duesseldorf – AS Pontoise Cergy 3:1 (5:4 on aggregate)
Kristian Karlsson – Mattias Karlsson 3:2 (11:7, 11.7, 9:11, 7:11, 11:5)
Stefan Fegerl – Marcos Freitas 3:1 (11:7, 11:8, 7:11, 13:11)
Timo Boll – Tristan Flore 2:3 (11:9, 9:11, 11:8, 9:11, 8:11)
Anton Källberg – Niagol Stoyanov 3:0 (11:8, 11:9, 11:4)
All TTCL videos and round highlights are now available on-demand at Laola1.tv .
Full match of the round, Samsonov vs Baum, is available at:
http://www.laola1.tv/en-int/video/samsonov-vladimir-baum-patrick-len
and the video in a short form: