He comes from league rivals ASC Grünwettersbach and has signed a two-year contract with the Schwalbe team Source: Press release TTC Schwalbe BergneustadtFeatured image above: Heinz Duda Leo de Nodrest and Frederik Duda from left to right (Photo: TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt) Plasteurope.com is a business information platform for the European plastics industry It is part of KI Kunststoff Information and PIE Plastics Information Europe one of the leading content providers for the European plastics industry We offer daily updated business news and reports polymer prices and other services for the international plastics industry News | Polymer Prices | Suppliers Guide | Jobs | Register | Advertising Adrien Rassenfosse and Benedikt Duda achieved a convincing 3:1 home win against Post SV Mühlhausen While Bergneustadt continue to be among the league leaders the Thuringians' crisis is deepening and they remain at the bottom of the table after this latest defeat The match began with a dominant performance from Kanak Jha who defeated Irvin Bertrand with a clear 3:0 (11:4 Jha played almost flawlessly in the first two sets Only in the third set did it briefly get a little tighter but the US American remained calm and secured Bergneustadt the early lead Adrien Rassenfosse continued his impressive run The young Belgian came up against the experienced Austrian Daniel Habesohn But there was little sign of a duel at eye level Rassenfosse played freely and dominated Habesohn right from the start 11:7) went to Rassenfosse in no time at all who set a strong example with his performance Mühlhausen only managed one point of honor that evening 13:11) in a close duel in the third singles match of the evening The close set scores in particular showed how hard-fought the match was who was often considered a safe bet for Bergneustadt last season fought his way into extra time in all three sets but ultimately had to concede defeat to Ionescu “We got off to a poor start to the season and are not currently playing at our top level,” said Ionescu after the match “Bergneustadt played well today and Kanak Jha showed an extremely strong level against Mengel and Bertrand We now have to prepare better for the next games in order to get the points we urgently need.” Kanak Jha secured the overall victory for Bergneustadt Jha expressed his satisfaction: “I'm very happy about the win Mühlhausen is a great team with four good players and it's always difficult to predict who you're going to play against TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt remains in the top group of the TTBL shows that Bergneustadt can continue to fight for the top of the table in the coming weeks will now have to get over their false start as quickly as possible and get back to their game Coach Erik Schreyer's team urgently needs to collect points to avoid losing touch with the midfield Click here for the current table: https://www.ttbl.de/bundesliga/table TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt - Post SV Mühlhausen 3:1Kanak Jha - Irvin Bertrand 3:0 (11:4 11:9)Adrien Rassenfosse - Daniel Habesohn 3:0 (11:3 11:7)Benedikt Duda – Ovidiu Ionescu 0:3 (9:11 11:13)Kanak Jha - Steffen Mengel 3:1 (11:4 BV Borussia 09 Dortmund - ASC Grünwettersbach 2:3Li Yongyin - Guilherme Teodoro 3:1 (13:11 11:6)Anders Lind - Tiago Apolonia 1:3 (14:12 8:11)Cedric Nuytinck – Ricardo Walther 0:3 (5:11 9:11)Li Yongyin - Tiago Apolonia 3:0 (16:14 11:9)Anders Lind / Cedric Nuytinck - Guilherme Teodoro / Ricardo Walther 2:3 (11:9 TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell – TSV Bad Königshofen 3:1Dimitrij Ovtcharov - Filip Zeljko 3:1 (12:10 11:7)Fanbo Meng - Bastian Steger 3:2 (4:11 8:11)Dimitrij Ovtcharov - Bastian Steger 3:0 (11:6 FC Saarbrücken TT – SV Werder Bremen 2:3Patrick Franziska – Marcelo Aguirre 2:3 (11:8 8:11)Wang Lichen – Kirill Gerassimenko 1:3 (4:11 9:11)Darko Jorgic – Mattias Falck 3:1 (11:8 11:8)Patrick Franziska – Kirill Gerassimenko 3:0 (11:9 11:5)Wang Lichen/Darko Jorgic – Mattias Falck/Marcelo Aguirre 1:3 (10:12 Borussia Düsseldorf – TTC OE Bad Homburg 3:0Dang Qiu - Csaba Andras 3:2 (11:8 11:7)Anton Källberg - Kristian Karlsson 3:1 (11:5 September19 Uhr: TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen - TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau All Bundesliga table tennis matches live and on demand on Dyn.Featured image: Kanak Jha (Photo: TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt) The 53-year-old has been working as a district officer since 2017 and is one of two in the city of 20,000 inhabitants. He joined the police force in 1988 and has been working in the Oberberg district since 1994. He is at home here, lives just five kilometers from where he works and usually arrives by bike in the morning. NRW has 2,000 district officers: in purely mathematical terms, there is one for every 10,000 inhabitants. A working group is to present a concept for strengthening the district service by the end of the year. These officers are "the Swiss army knife of the police service", says the head of the working group, Ulrich Heuke. All-rounders in the best sense of the word. On foot patrol every day. Like Willmes in Bergneustadt. "When I step out of the front door at just before 7 a.m., I'm in my area of responsibility," he says, "everyone in the village knows me." He practically never turns off his work cell phone, he can be reached day and night. When pupils say about him: "That's our village sheriff, he's all right", it's particularly nice praise for Willmes. Pictures of kindergarten children hang on a wall in his office. "Thank you police" is written in spidery lettering on one of them. Waning respect for the police, which is being lamented more and more frequently, has also been felt by Willmes recently: property damage and bullying. But controls and talks with parents have had a lasting effect, he emphasizes. Things have become noticeably quieter since the summer vacations. A fragile peace? Most of the issues that the chief inspector deals with are "interpersonal issues in the neighborhood": the music is too loud, the hedge is too high, the car drives too fast through the 30 km/h zone. There is a lot of overlap with the responsibilities of the public order office. "Most of the time, it works with mediated discussions," says Willmes. The chaos caused by helicopter parents outside the town's six schools in the morning is one of his daily topics. Bergneustadt, around 50 kilometers east of Cologne, presents itself as a tranquil place. Nevertheless, there are problematic neighborhoods and streets. Unemployment is an issue. Crime is also a concern for the district officers. For example, a series of garbage cans or used clothing containers were set on fire. Sometimes investigative work is required. Willmes feels almost "personally offended" by crimes "in my city". When burglars broke into supermarkets and lottery shops to steal cigarettes some time ago, he drove through the city and lay in wait for nights on end. The perpetrators were later caught in the Düsseldorf area. national table tennis player Dimitrij Ovtcharov is facing “days of truth” with Bundesliga club TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell In the duels on Tuesday (6.30 p.m.) with 1 FC Saarbrücken and two days later (Thursday/19.00 p.m./both Dyn) at Borussia Düsseldorf the East Hessians could also lose their good starting position in the fight for the play-off participation “The race has become pretty tight,” Ovtcharov's club and national team colleague Ruwen Filus confirmed in a TTBL interview According to the former European Championship fifth seed the three-time runners-up are still reeling from their unexpected 3-0 home defeat against TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt So we probably need two points either against Saarbrücken or in Düsseldorf that would be very important for us,” said Filus Fulda could occupy a place in the table on Thursday evening that would not entitle them to take part in the semi-finals Champions League winners Saarbrücken have had a run in their race to catch up and could possibly overtake the fourth-placed hosts in Fulda with their fourth win in a row Düsseldorf have not yet secured their play-off qualification either and therefore have nothing to give away five rounds before the end of the main round Ovtcharov was beaten 2:3 in Montreux in a duel with Saarbrücken's top player Patrick Franziska despite twice leading the set club president Stefan Frauenholz does not want to see either the setback against Bergneustadt or Ovtcharov's first round defeat in Switzerland as a bad omen: “It's nothing dramatic.” Source: SIDFeatured image above: Dimitrij Ovtcharov (l.) and Ruwen Filus (r.) (Photo: SID/IMAGO/Patrick Wichmann) Reigning champion in Singles and Doubles from Warsaw 2020 Petrisa SOLJA was forced to withdrew from the European Championships in Munich (August 13th to 21st) due the injury SOLJA is suffering from back problems and WAN Yuan will take her place in team Germany It is bad news for the DTTB team a few weeks before the start of the European Table Tennis Championships as part of the European Championships: The six-time European Champion Petrissa SOLJA (TSV Langstadt) will not be going to the tables in Munich An injury to the intervertebral disc from last year has broken out again and after consultation with the trainer and medical team SOLJA will take a few weeks off  “Of course it’s a pity that Petrissa can’t play the European Championships But health always comes first and we wish her a speedy and good recovery ” says DTTB sports director Richard PRAUSE This also makes it clear that new European champions will be crowned in singles and doubles in Munich The girl from the Palatinate won her first European Championship singles title in Warsaw last year – in the final against SHAN Xiaona and in doubles with her WAN Yuan (TTC Weinheim) will replace Solja in Singles Sabine WINTER (TTC Schwabhausen) and Benedikt DUDA (TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt) are expected to be registered in mixed in doubles Annett KAUFMANN (SV Böblingen) and Franziska SCHREINER (TSV Langstadt) Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (TTC Neu-Ulm WR: 9) Patrick FRANZISKA (1 FC Saarbrücken TT WR: 11) Dang QIU (Borussia Düsseldorf WR: 13) Timo BOLL (Borussia Düsseldorf WR: 14) Benedikt DUDA (TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt WR: 33) HAN Ying (KTS Enea Siarka Tarnobrzeg/ WR: 8) Nina MITTELHAM (ttc berlin eastside WR: 12) SHAN Xiaona (ttc berlin eastside WR: 17)   Sabine WINTER (TSV Schwabhausen WR: 45) WAN Yuan (TTC Weinheim WR: 106) Annett KAUFMANN (SV Böblingen WR: 122) Franziska SCHREINER (TSV Langstadt WR: 207) The European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) is the governing body of the sport of table tennis in Europe and is the only authority recognized for this purpose by the International Table Tennis Federation The ETTU deals with all matters relating to table tennis at a European level including the development and promotion of the sport in the territories controlled by its 58 member associations and the organization of continental table tennis competitions Feb 24, 2020 | , The German Army Aviation EC 135 Display Team from IHTC Bückeburg will return to the display circuit in 2020. As well as various events in Germany, the team plan to return to the International Sanicole Airshow in Belgium.  The highest seeded TTBL ace is defending champion Darko Jorgic from Champions League winners 1. FC Saarbrücken TT. The Slovenian, who is ranked number four, can become the first player to triumph for the fourth time in a row in the over 50-year-old competition in Switzerland. Of the German starters, former European champion Dang Qiu (Düsseldorf) is seeded number five directly behind Jorgic. Former title winners Dimitrij Ovtcharov (Fulda) and Patrick Franziska (Saarbrücken) were seeded seventh and eleventh respectively in the seeding list headed by French Olympic bronze medalist Felix Lebrun. Main field: Darko Jorgic (1. FC Saarbrücken TT/No. 4), Dang Qiu (Borussia Düsseldorf/5), Dimitrij Ovtcharov (TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell/7), Anders Lind (Borussia Dortmund/8), Anton Källberg (Düsseldorf/9), Patrick Franziska (Saarbrücken/11), Eduard Ionescu (Saarbrücken/14) Qualification: Benedikt Duda (Bergneustadt/17), Kristian Karlsson (TTC OE Bad Homburg), Daniel Habesohn (Post SV Mühlhausen/20) Source: SIDFeature image above: Darko Jorgic (Foto: AFP/SID/TOBIAS SCHWARZ) the new season in the German Table Tennis League (TTBL) is already in the starting blocks The 2024/25 season kicks off on August 23 with the match between SV Werder Bremen and newly promoted Borussia Dortmund Here are five highlights from the new season The 2024/25 season kicks off with a historic match: Borussia Dortmund will celebrate its debut in the German Table Tennis League (TTBL) on Friday The newly promoted team will kick off the new season with an away match at SV Werder Bremen BVB's first home match will be against ASC Grünwettersbach on match day 3 with a packed day of table tennis: runners-up 1 FC Saarbrücken TT start at TTC OE Bad Homburg (2 p.m.); last year's semi-finalists TSV Bad Königshofen welcome Post SV Mühlhausen (3.30 p.m.); defending champions Borussia Düsseldorf start against ASC Grünwettersbach (5 p.m.) The top match of match day 1 will take place on Monday TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen and TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell with new signing Dimitrij Ovtcharov The season opener between TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt and TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau (7 p.m.) will conclude the season Fans can look forward to two new teams in the new season Not only debutant Borussia Dortmund is a newcomer The team from Hesse was relegated from the TTBL in 2022 after two years and is now celebrating its return TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell only finished in tenth place last season but with the additions of Ovtcharov and Kao Cheng-Jui as well as Chuang Chih-Yuan they are now aiming to return to the play-offs TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen also want to return to the top four after finishing sixth in the previous season There is likely to be tough competition from last year's semi-finalists TSV Bad Königshofen and SV Werder Bremen as well as Post SV Mühlhausen - and of course from the title favorites Borussia Düsseldorf and 1 ASC Grünwettersbach and TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau are hoping to at least stay in the same division Timo Boll is the focus of special attention After ending his international career following the Olympic Games the table tennis legend is entering his final season in the TTBL "I'm really looking forward to next season - going to the halls everywhere again saying goodbye everywhere," Boll had already said at the Liebherr TTBL final A total of 17 of the 50 best players in the world rankings play in the TTBL including Olympic fourth-placed Hugo Calderano (TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen) the German national players Patrick Franziska (1 FC Saarbrücken TT) and Dang Qiu (Borussia Düsseldorf) the 2021 doubles world champion Mattias Falck (SV Werder Bremen) all TTBL and German Table Tennis Cup matches can once again be seen live and exclusively on Dyn the sports channel also broadcasts numerous other sports including the national leagues of basketball field hockey and volleyball as well as numerous top international events the next stage of growth will be to make the content outside of live broadcasts even bigger more interactive and more social," said Dyn CEO Andreas Heyden in our recent interview we will also pursue 'Move your sport' more intensively and show what we are doing for our mission described at the beginning to bring the positive values of sport to society." The Dyn annual subscription costs 12.50 euros per month while the monthly cancelable subscription costs 14.50 euros By the way: 10% of the net subscription revenue is distributed to the national partner leagues as part of the 'Move your sport' program where it is used specifically to promote young talent the title decisions - and therefore the top events The cup final is expected to be held again in January as a final four event so fans can look forward to a thrilling day of table tennis with semi-finals and the grand final The crowning finale of the season will be the TTBL final in the summer when the German championship will be decided - possibly one last time with Timo Boll August 237 p.m.: SV Werder Bremen – Borussia Dortmund FC Saarbrücken TT3.30 p.m.: TSV Bad Königshofen – Post SV Mühlhausen5 p.m.: Borussia Düsseldorf – ASC Grünwettersbach August 266 p.m.: TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen – TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell7 p.m.: TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt – TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau          Featured images: (Photos: BeLa Sportfoto) “He has improved,” Franziska described his impressions of Calderano at the cup final round, ”in the serve/return area, plays with a lot of confidence. His game is even more difficult to read and predict than before.” With these strengths, Hugo Marinho Borges Calderano, as his full name is, wants to celebrate even more often with Ochsenhausen's team - preferably in the current season. The cup win seems to be a parallel to the successful 2018/19 season: Six years ago, the cup win also formed the basis for the subsequent double. The 28-year-old does not want to conceal the corresponding objective: “It's still very early days, but of course we will try to win another title.” The other two singles, however, belonged to Saarbrücken. First, Jorgic shortened the gap with his 3:1 (11:8, 8:11, 12:10, 11:8) against Falck. “We know each other very well and know exactly how each other plays,” said Jorgic. “I played very well today and was able to keep my team in the game.” Franziska then saved his team against Gerassimenko with a 3:0 (11:9, 11:8, 11:5) win in the doubles, inflicting the Bremen player's first defeat of the season. The table tennis Bundesliga continues on the following day, Wednesday, September 4. This will be a reunion for Borussia Düsseldorf: Kristian Karlsson played for the record champions for six years and will now travel to Düsseldorf for the first time with TTC OE Bad Homburg. Both the newly promoted team from Hesse and Borussia have started the new season with 2:2 points. The match between Düsseldorf and Bad Homburg and all other TTBL matches will be broadcast live and exclusively on Dyn. 1. FC Saarbrücken TT – SV Werder Bremen 2:3Patrick Franziska – Marcelo Aguirre 2:3 (11:8, 5:11, 9:11, 11:7, 8:11)Wang Lichen – Kirill Gerassimenko 1:3 (4:11, 10:12, 11:6, 9:11)Darko Jorgic – Mattias Falck 3:1 (11:8, 8:11, 12:10, 11:8)Patrick Franziska – Kirill Gerassimenko 3:0 (11:9, 11:8, 11:5)Wang Lichen/Darko Jorgic – Mattias Falck/Marcelo Aguirre 1:3 (10:12, 11:5, 9:11, 8:11) Wednesday, September 4th7 p.m.: Borussia Düsseldorf – TTC OE Bad Homburg Saturday, September 7th7 p.m.: TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell – TSV Bad Königshofen Sunday, September 8th3.30 p.m.: BV Borussia 09 Dortmund – ASC Grünwettersbach Monday, September 16th7 p.m.: TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt – Post SV Mühlhausen Montag, 23. September7 p.m.: TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen – TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau A few weeks after the Summer Olympics, the 2024/25 season is picking up speed again and the table tennis stars can be seen in halls all over Germany. In addition to the new season in the German Table Tennis Bundesliga (TTBL), the German Table Tennis Cup is already casting its shadow. In the cup round of 16, the 16 teams want to take the first step towards the Liebherr Cup Final Four, where the first title decision of the season will be made in January 2025. Wednesday, 04.09. 6 p.m. TSV Bad Königshofen – Post SV Mühlhausen Monday, 09.09. 7 p.m. TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau – ASC Grünwettersbach Wednesday, 18.09. 7 p.m. TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen – TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt Wednesday, 18.09. 7.30 p.m. 1. FC Saarbrücken TT – Borussia Dortmund Saturday, 21.09. 7 p.m. TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell – Borussia Düsseldorf Scheduling after 25.08.Winner preliminary round group 1 – TTC OE Bad HomburgWinner preliminary round group 2* – Winner preliminary round group 4*Winner preliminary round group 3 – SV Werder Bremen *Possible exchange of home rights, as lower-class club has home rights. Group 1 (in Lampertheim): TTC Altena, TTC indeland Jülich, SV Union Velbert II, TTC 1957 Lampertheim Group 2 (in Schwarzenbek): SV Union Velbert, TSV Schwarzenbek, Hertha BSC Berlin, 1. FC Köln Group 3 (in Neckarsulm): 1. FSV Mainz 05, SU Neckarsulm, 1. FC Saarbrücken TT II, TTC Bietigheim-Bissingen Group 4 (in Hilpoltstein): TSV Windsbach, TTC SR Hohenstein-Ernstthal, TTC Fortuna Passau, TV 1879 Hilpoltstein the 1st FSV Mainz 05 managed to get its first win of the season against the visitors from Bergneustadt the TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt went to Mainz with a weakened team Markus Grothe was to play his first match on Sunday and had to play Luka Mladenovic in the first game he played better in the third set and managed to win it with 9:11 who celebrated his second singles success this season it was expected that the match would be closer than in the opening match Benedikt Duda let his opponent score just five points in three sets and won the match 11:2 He also won his second singles match against Luka Mladenovic 3:0 (11:7 Yongyin Li won his first TTBL match for the 1st FSV Mainz 05 defeating Adrien Rassenfosse in a close match to score a very important point for the hosts It was clear that Bergneustadt would have to play the final doubles match And so it came to pass: Li/Rossi won the all-important doubles against Rassenfosse/Grothe and bagged the first win of the season for 1 who thus leave TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell as the only club without a win in the table so far FSV Mainz 05): "I'm happy that I could win my first match 3:0 that was important for us to start the match with a win Li was then able to win the key match at position three and then it finally came to the first doubles win for us in the TTBL." Markus Grothe (TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt): "I was happy to play against Mladenovic I could have won the third set where I was leading 9:8 SV Werder Bremen - TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen 0:3Mattias Falck - Can Akkuzu 1:3 (11:13 7:11)Kirill Gerassimenko - Simon Gauzy 2:3 (11:6 10:12)Cristian Pletea - Alvaro Robles 0:3 (6:11 ASV Grünwettersbach - Post SV Mühlhausen 3:0Tiago Apolonia - Steffen Mengel 3:2 (11:6 11:4)Ricardo Walther - Daniel Habesohn 3:2 (11:8 TSV Bad Königshofen - Borussia Düsseldorf 0:3Filip Zeljko - Anton Källberg 1:3 (12:10 5:11)Martin Allegro - Kay Stumper 0:3 (9:11 5:11)Bastian Steger - Borgar Haug 0:3 (8:11 FSV Mainz 05 - TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt 3:2Luka Mladenovic - Markus Grothe 3:0 (11:6 11:9)Rares Sipos - Benedikt Duda 0:3 (2:11 1:11)Yongyin Li - Adrien Rassenfosse 3:1 (11:13 11:6)Luka Mladenovic - Benedikt Duda 0:3 (7:11 3:11)Li/Rossi - Rassenfosse/Grothe 3:0 (11:4 September 257 p.m.: TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau - 1 All TTBL matches will be broadcast live on Dyn.Article image above: Carlo Rossi (Photo: Mainz 05)