The Romanian women’s national team took first place in Group 7 and reached the 1/8 finals of the World Table Tennis Championship in Busan (South Korea), defeating Serbia with a score of 3:1.

Romania vs. Serbia 3-1, in table tennis CM groups

Bernadette Schoch vs. Tijana Jokic 3-0 (11-8, 11-4, 11-7)

Andrey Dragoman vs. Sabina Suryan 3-1 (11-6, 11-6, 5-11, 11-8)

Elena Zacharia vs. Isabela Lupulescu 1-3 (11-4, 9-11, 10-12, 4-11)

Bernadette Shock vs. Sabina Suryan 3-2 (12-10, 8-11, 10-12, 11-6, 11-5).

Know: In case of victory in the match of 1/8 finals, Romania will receive the right to the Olympic Games in Paris.

CM Table Tennis, women’s program of Romania

• 7 group

Romania vs. Sweden 3-0

Romania vs. Canada 3-0

Romania vs. Singapore 3-1

Romania vs. Serbia 3-1.

7 rating group:

1. Romania (12-2) 8 points (+1 match)

2. Sweden (6-7) 5

3. Singapore (6-7) 4

4. Serbia (6-7) 4

5. Canada (2-9) 3.

The women’s team consists of Bernadette Shox, Elizabeth Samara, Andrea Dragoman, Adina Diacona, Elena Zacharia, trainers Viorel Filimon, Michaela Steff and physiotherapist Petruc Gice.

CM Table tennis, Romanian men’s program

• 8 group

Romania vs. Portugal 0-3

Romania vs. Egypt 3-0

Romania vs. Thailand 3-1

Romania – Iran / Tuesday, 06:00.

The team consists of Ovidiu Ionescu, Eduardo Ionescu, Darius Movilianu, Andrej Istrate, Julian Chirica, trainers Andrej Filimon, Ionuc Seni and physiotherapist Adrian Mirza. The Romanian delegation also includes a psychologist: Mioara Shinkan.

Know:

• 40 women’s and men’s teams take part in the competition. The World Team Championship is a qualifying criterion for the 2024 Paris Olympics, and the top eight teams will have direct qualification for the Olympics.

• The winners of the groups will advance directly to the 1/8 finals, and the 2nd and 3rd place teams will advance to the 1/8 finals.

• At the last two World Cups in 2018 (Halmstad, Sweden) and 2014 (Tokyo, Japan), the women’s national team took fifth place, writes Agerpres.