With the final tournament for the Austrian Championships (10 / 11 May in Wels) and the final in the ETTU Cup against Lyssois Lille (May 17 in Lille / June 5 (19:00) at the Werner Schlager Academy) major challenges are ahead of Austrian women’s table tennis top team SVS STRÖCK this season.

However, the team is already focusing on the future. The rebuilding for the 2014/2015 season has begun.

As the first new listings two young players were engaged, who, due to their great future prospects half of Europe wanted to have them in the team: Dora Madarasz (Hungary / 21) and Lea Rakovac (Croatia / 18). Both are already a members of their national teams and also in the Team World Cup (28 April) in Tokyo at the start. Rakovac was just able to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing (China) a few hours ago.

Madarasz is currently number 52 of the European ranking and number 34 of the Under-21 World Ranking.

Rakovac reached at the 2013 World Junior Championships as the best European player the quarterfinals and is number 5 in the Under-18 European rankings. She will be a member of the Champions League team of SVS STRÖCK - as well as Madarasz.

Madarasz : " It is my great pleasure to go to SVS STRÖCK and there to take advantage of the training with top players at the Werner Schlager Academy. So I hope I can realize my big dream of starting at Olympic Games 2016 in Rio. "

Rakovac : " SVS Ströck one of the absolute top clubs in Europe and it is an honor to be part of this team. I will work hard to give the club a lot of good results. "

With Madarasz, Rakovac and the 16 -year-old Thai woman Tamolwan Khetkuen now three players in the squad of SVS STRÖCK are belonging to the biggest talents in the world outside of China.

With Madarasz and Rakovac the "Purchasing Program" of SVS STRÖCK is not yet complete. In the next few days further reinforcements will follow. . .

As of now, the ÖTTV team player Li Qiangbing will no longer be in the team of SVS STRÖCK. The young mom is leaving the club after four seasons.