Slovenia and Luxembourg on Portugal’s way to the table tennis world championship — DNOTICIAS.PT
This afternoon, the Portuguese teams got to know the equipment for the round of the round of 16 of the Table Tennis World Championship, which is taking place in Chengdu, China.
In the men’s sector, the Quinas team will measure forces with the team that defeated Portugal in the final of the Oran 2022 Mediterranean Games.
The Slovenians occupy the 14th place in the world ranking, and features the athletes Darko Jocic (nº 8), European runner-up in Munich 2022 and winner of the European Top 16 in Montreaux 2022; Deni Kozul (155th), Peter Hribar (321st) and Tilen Cvetko (548th).
(In these all for Slovenia won to Thailand (3-0), Puerto Rico (3-1) and the United States (3-0) and lost to China0-3).
The duel between Portuguese and Slovenians takes place in the early hours of Thursday at 4 am.
In the women’s sector of Luxembourg (25th in the world ranking), it is the opponent of the Portuguese team.
So far, the Luxembourgers are one of the great sensations in the world, after having beaten the strong North Korea team by 3-1 (12th in the ranking). The team also defeated Iran (3-0) and Thailand (3-1) and lost to Singapore (0-3).
The team is formed by the veteran (56 years old) Xia Lian Ni (41st), Sarah de Nutte (68th), Tessy Gonderinger (299th) and Ariel Barbosa (327th).
It should be noted that Portugal – Çuxemburgo is scheduled for 12:30 today (time in mainland Portugal).