The sensation remains from: Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Timo Boll and Patrick Franziska must give the table tennis large power China in the final 0: 3.
Dimitrij Ovtcharov picked up the sad Timo Boll shortly in the arm, but little late joked the top duo again with Patrick Franziska: After the missed sensation against the table tennis great power China, only short disappointment prevailed in the German team, before the joy overlooked over silver . When clear 0: 3 in the Olympic Dream Final, the serial winners from the kingdom of the middle proved to be too big as a number.
"Our team has tickled the Chinese dragon, bravely fought against him, but unfortunately could not tame him, but unfortunately," said DTTB President Michael Geiger. In addition, he praised the entire German team: "Two medal gains are an excellent result and let us positively look into the future with the narrow missed medals in the mixed and women's team."
From the "biggest challenge that there is - maybe even throughout the sport" Ovtcharov had spoken in front of the team finals and the duels against the number one, two and three of the world rankings and announced the Chinese a hard fight. Above all, he also delivered himself, his team had to give himself after 1:55 hours but beaten. In the 26th competitive match against China, Germany conceded its 26th defeat.
DTTB team like 2008 with silver
In the end, Ovtcharov and Co. were still satisfied. With silver, the DTTB Trio introduced its best result from 2008 when the final was also lost to China. Since the premiere of the 2008 team competition in Beijing, the "dragons" have won all 17 games - of which 15 with 3: 0 and two with 3: 1.
In the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Boll and Franziska (Düsseldorf / Saarbrücken) received a small teaching lesson in doubles against Ma Long / Xu Xin and lost all three sentences without being in the lead. For this Ovtcharov (Hameln / Orenburg) played in a single against fan Zhendong partly large, was against the number one of the world rankings already with 2: 1 sentences in front, marriage of the thread ripped.
Boll was already under pressure against the old and new single Olympic champion Ma Long. The European champion came against the world's ranking third-party after two lost sentences, the third round he won after three crash match balls. In the fourth sentence, the "dictator" from China proved too strong.
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While Ma Long was the first player of history his fifth gold, Ovtcharov made a record with his sixth Olympic medal. In Tokyo, "Dima" had won as already in London single bronze, add silver (2008, 2020) and Bronze (2012, 2016) with the team.
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