Greece won four medals in the international table tennis tournament – Sports – General
The international table tennis tournament of Cyprus in Nicosia started on Friday morning with the team tournament, the match ended on Saturday afternoon and Greece, which was present in all the finals, celebrated three gold medals and a silver one.
The winner emerged in the K21 athletes (with Alexandros Madesis and Jason Kordoutis in the team), in the K21 athletes (Chrissi Fotiadou, Lemonia Gaidatzi) and in the K15 athletes (Stella Tzaridou, Despina Abba), while she won the second K ).
The boys ‘teams are coached by the national federal coach, Costas Vatsaklis, and the girls’ teams by the coach of HAN Thessaloniki, Eftychia Perri.
In total, seven countries are taking part in this year’s tournament of the Pancyprian Table Tennis Federation, which is hosted at the spacious “Evangelos Florakis” Training Center. Apart from the “host” Cyprus and Greece, Jordan, Malta, Romania, Lebanon and Armenia are participating.
In all the categories, except that of the girls, two groups were formed first, and then the first two teams advanced to the semifinals and faced each other. The corbion (with a double intermediate in four people) was the conducting system for each match.
In the K21 age category of men, our National team (I. Kordoutis, Madesis) defeated Jordan in the final with 3-0 sets. That from the specific country had been defeated on Friday in the group, so it passed as second in the next phase. In the semifinals, Greece had defeated Cyprus A with 3-1 sets.
In the corresponding category of women, our internationals (Fotiadou, Gaidatzi) initially won in their group with three victories. In the semifinals, they had a hard time beating Cyprus with 3-2 sets and reached the final against Armenia. They had a very difficult task in an ambiguous match and prevailed again with 3-2 sets to take the lead.
There were fewer participants in the K15 athletes’ team and, thus, it became a single group on Friday. Aba and Tzaridou managed to prevail over all their opponents and win the gold medal. They defeated Armenia, Lebanon, Jordan and Romania with 3-0 sets and Cyprus with 3-1 sets.
The boys (Sotiriou, Milikoudis) passed as winners from their own group and finally reached the decisive match for the first place in Cyprus. They were back in the score, they equalized immediately and finally “bent” with 3-1 sets to be content with the silver medal.
The tournament continues with the single and the double and ends on Sunday.
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