He won the German Table Tennis Championship.

team from Timo Bol 1. Defeated FC Saarbrücken 3-2 in the final match of the Table Tennis Bundesliga. After more than three and a half hours, Christian Karlsson and Dang Qiu beat Darko Jorgic and Thomas Polanski of Saarbrücken 3-0 in the decisive doubles match at Polsporthal in Frankfurt. The record-breaking German champions lost the cup final 3-1 to FCS in January. In the semi-finals of the Champions League in March, Dusseldorf won again in this duel between the two best German teams.

On his 30th birthday, Germany’s Patrick Franziska had a fantastic opportunity to master his second Saarbrücken after 2020. But with his team’s 2:1 score, he lost his 12th world place in 1:3 sets against Anton Källberg.

And he saved the Swede Borussia in a decisive fifth match after giving the defending champions a 1-0 lead against Czech Polanski (3-1). In the end, Saarbrücken won only the most exciting matches, but did not win the decisive duels. Franziska defeated fellow national teammate Dang Qiu 3: 2. World number 6 Jorgic of Slovenia did not give European champion Timo Paul a chance in his only match (3:1).

(dpa)