
Going to Austria
On November 16 TTSC UMMC plays the 4 round match of the Table Tennis Champions’ League Men in
Austria against the club Walter Wels. The match starts at 6 pm CET.
Tatyana Kutergina’s squad played against the Austrian club quite recently, on October 26 in Verkhnyaya
Pyshma in the framework of the 3rd round of the TTCLM. In that match, Alexander Shibaev, Jonathan
Groth and Andrei Gacina only consolidated their sole leadership in the group, winning with the score of
3: 0. Club from Austria, on the contrary, have increased their backlog from other rivals.
However, this fact does not relax our team at all. Most likely, the Korean player Ganghyeon Park will
play the home match for “Walter Wels”, the European Championships prize winner Deni Kozul looks
equally strong, as well as Adam Szudy, who brought many problems to Jonathan Groth in the past
match.
Jonathan Groth, Arthur Abusev, Ilya Zhidkov will play for the UMMC in Austria.
“We made a decision to give the opportunity to play to Zhidkov and Abusev,” said the head coach of the
UMMC table tennis club Tatyana Kutergina, “I promised to let everyone play.” For Abusev this will be
the debut match for the UMMC. In any case, for both Zhidkov and Abusev, the match with “Walter
Wels” will be an invaluable experience.


