Table tennis: Ovtcharov leads DTTB team into the quarterfinals

Dimitrij Ovtcharov has taken the first hurdle on the way to a historic sixth Olympia medal. Two days after his bronze triumph in singles, the 32-year-old moved together with European Champion Timo Boll and Patrick Franziska through a smooth 3-0 against Portugal in the quarter-finals of the team competition in table tennis. Previously, the DTTB women had also won their octifal finals against Australia 3-0.

The men's trio thus meets on Tuesday (7.30 am Mesz) on Taiwan with top player Lin Yun-Ju, the Ovtcharov on Friday in the bronze game with 4: 3 had defeated. "That's the hardest lot you can get. I have to play against Lin on the absolute limit if I want to win there," Ovtcharov said.

If Germany as early as 2008 (Silver), 2012 and 2016 (each bronze) land on the podium, Ovtcharov would be the first player of history with six Olympic medals.

In the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, the German team remained without phrases: Boll and Franziska (Düsseldorf / Saarbrücken), the double against Joao Monteiro / Tiago Apolonia won and managed to ward off the feat in the first round of seven sentence balls in a row. Subsequently, Ovtcharov Portugal's Top Player Marcos Freitas Sovereign, Boll made everything clear against Apolonia.

In a possible semi-finals, as in 2016, it could go against Japan, at that time Ovtcharov and Co. 1: 3. The goal is the dream final against China.

German women had previously been easily entered into the quarterfinals. Petrissa Solja, Shan Xiaona and Shan Xiaona gave a total of Australia only two sentences and meet now on South Korea or Poland.

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