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2015 Baku 1st European Game Saive vs Karlsson

2015 Baku – 1st European Games

Second round competition in table tennis completed today at the 2015 Baku – 1st European Games.  View videos from some of today’s matches and see who plays who in tomorrow’s Singles 3rd round matches.

Belgium’s Jean-Michel Saive is forced very wide in a rally with Sweden’s
Kristian Karlsson – and the barriers are dealt a degree of damage.

Drinkhall Paul (GBR) vs Pattantyus Adam (HUN)

Fegerl Stefan (AUT) vs Gorak Daniel (POL)

Men’s Singles 3rd round matches scheduled for tomorrow are:

  • OVTCHAROV Dimitrij vs MATTENET Adrien
  • KREANGA Kalinikos vs GACINA Andrej
  • TOKIC Bojan vs DRINKHALL Paul
  • GERELL Par vs FREITAS Marcos
  • SAMSONOV Vladimir vs GAUZY Simon
  • KARLSSON Kristian vs APOLONIA Tiago
  • KOU Lei vs FEGERL Stefan
  • PITCHFORD Liam vs WANG Yang

Women’s Singles 3rd round matches scheduled for tomorrow are:

  • HAN Ying vs POLCANOVA Sofia
  • LI Xue vs LI Jie
  • ODOROVA Eva vs STRBIKOVA Renata
  • PESOTSKA Margaryta vs NI Xia Lian
  • SAMARA Elizabeta vs LI Qian
  • BILENKO Tetyana vs HU Melek
  • SOLJA Petrissa vs DVORAK Galia
  • LI Jiao vs LIU Jia

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