Bundesliga
Bremen beats Grenzau and extends the lead
SV Werder Bremen remains on course for the playoffs in the Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL): At the end of the 15th match day on Sunday, the North Germans celebrated a confident 3-0 victory at TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau, drawing level with league leaders Borussia Düsseldorf once again.
SV Werder Bremen continues its winning streak in the Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL). Even TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau was unable to stop the Hanseatic team on Sunday afternoon. With a 3:0 victory, Werder secured its twelfth win of the season at the end of the 15th match day, taking another big step toward the playoffs. With 24:6 points, Bremen is now back on par with league leaders Borussia Düsseldorf and already has an eight-point lead over fifth-placed TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen (16:14).
“We'll see what happens. We still have some tough games ahead of us,” said Bremen's Mattias Falck on Sunday when asked about his team's playoff chances. Commenting on the match in Westerwald, he said: “Since I've been in Bremen, we've had a poor record against Grenzau. That makes me all the happier with today's victory.”
“Gave us momentum”: Bertrand beats Kubik 3-0
“We're not thinking about the table at all,” Bremen manager Sascha Greber had said before the match. And Werder certainly didn't seem pensive, but rather full of drive. Irvin Bertrand secured the break and a 1-0 lead with a 3-0 win over Maciej Kubik. “We got off to a really good start, which gave us momentum for the rest of the matches,” Falck said later. Kirill Gerassimenko followed with another 3-0 win over Patrick Baum, before Falck secured the clear victory with a 3-1 win over Samuel Walker.
Werder will be back in action on Wednesday, February 11, when TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen visits at 6:30 p.m. One day earlier, on Tuesday, February 10, TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau will face 1. FC Saarbrücken TT in an away match. This and all other matches of the 16th match day of the Table Tennis Bundesliga will be broadcast live on Dyn.
Match day #15 at a glance
TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau – SV Werder Bremen 0:3
Maciej Kubik – Irvin Bertrand 0:3 (11:13, 11:13, 8:11)
Patrick Baum – Kirill Gerassimenko 0:3 (6:11, 8:11, 8:11)
Samuel Walker – Mattias Falck 1:3 (6:11, 6:11, 11:5, 6:11)
TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt – Borussia Dortmund 3:1
Benedikt Duda – Adam Szudi 3:1 (11:6, 14:16, 11:7, 11:6)
Leo de Nodrest – Anders Lind 0:3 (7:11, 10:12, 6:11)
Romain Ruiz – Kristian Karlsson 3:0 (11:6, 11:8, 11:8)
Benedikt Duda – Anders Lind 3:1 (11:8, 11:5, 9:11, 11:5)
Post SV Mühlhausen – Borussia Düsseldorf 0:3
Steffen Mengel – Anton Källberg 0:3 (8:11, 6:11, 6:11)
Ovidiu Ionescu – Yongyin Li 1:3 (9:11, 14:16, 12:10, 8:11)
Cheng-Ting Liao – Borgar Haug 1:3 (8:11, 9:11, 11:2, 7:11)
ASC Grünwettersbach – TTC OE Clarity-Telefonie Systeme Bad Homburg 1:3
Tiago Apolonia – Csaba Andras 3:0 (11:6, 11:5: 11:3)
Tom Jarvis – Juan Perez 1:3 (11:8, 6:11, 6:11, 7:11)
Ricardo Walther – Ivor Ban 1:3 (6:11, 10:12, 12:10, 8:11)
Tiago Apolonia – Juan Perez 1:3 (9:11, 13:11, 9:11, 9:11)
TSV Bad Königshofen – TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell 1:3
Xue Fei – Jonathan Groth 3:0 (11:7, 11:6, 11:9)
Bastian Steger – Dimitri Ovtcharov 1:3 (7:11, 10:12, 11:6, 11:13)
Daniel Habesohn – Fanbo Meng 2:3 (11:8, 12:10, 9:11, 10:12, 5:11)
Xue Fei – Dimitri Ovtcharov 2:3 (11:8, 11:5, 4:11, 7:11, 10:12)
TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen – 1. FC Saarbrücken TT 0:3
Shunsuke Togami – Darko Jorgic 2:3 (12:10, 12:10, 8:11, 7:11, 6:11)
Tiago Abiodun – Eduard Ionescu 0:3 (5:11, 7:11, 8:11)
Andreas Levenko – Yuto Muramatsu 0:3 (9:11, 12:14, 10:12)
All matches will be broadcast live on Dyn.
Header photo: SV Werder Bremen's Irvin Bertrand (by Patrick Wichmann)
