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Euro League: Surprise Win by Dusseldorf – through to Face Saarbrucken

(by Steve Hopkins, photo ITTFWorld)

Neu Ulm’s loaded team of Harimoto, Moregardh, and Ovtcharov narrowly escaped their home match against Borussia Dusseldorf today 3-2 earlier in the week.  The result flipped on Sunday as Kallberg defeated Ovtcharov 3-2 and Qui defeated Harimoto 3-2 to give Dusseldorf a commanding lead.  Neu Ulm then fought back with wins by Moregardh over Boll 3-2 and Harimoto over Kallberg 3-2.  But in the deciding match, it was Qiu over Ovtcharov 3-1.

That left the series tied at 1-1 and the tie is then decided by a three on three match with one game played by each player – first to 2 wins.  This “golden match” was the equivalent of Soccer’s Golden Goal – a super fast tie breaker that maximizes the action for the fans.  And despite all three match-ups leaning to Neu Ulm’s advantage (by World Ranking), it was Kallberg who defeated Harimoto 13-11 and Qiu who topped Moregardh 11-8 to send Dusseldorf to the Final.

The other Semifinal match between Muhlhausen and Saarbrucken was less climactic.  Saarbrucken won 3-1 in the first meeting.  They repeated the same result on Sunday.  Once again, Saarbrucken relied on Jorgic and Franziska to move forward – this time with Jorgic winning twice.  The lone loss this week was was Muhlhausen’s Daniel Habesohn defeating Saarbrucket’s Takuya Jin 3-2.

Dusseldorf will face Saarbrucken for the European Champions League Title next week.

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