Wednesday and Thursday at the European Table Tennis Championships in Herning, Denmark, the players from the second row are in the center. And in the said qualification, even "stars" like Jean Michel Saive, Pär Gerell or the Russian Fedor Kuzmin have to compete.

Between Friday and Sunday the medals will be played, and according to the seedings, some of the players of the international WSA group will have a real chance at the medal awarding.

Foremost Marcos Freitas (Portugal), who is set number one in the doubles together with the Croatian Andrej Gacina. The same SVS STRÖCK star Daniela Dodean. The Schwechat resident goes alongside her Romanian partner Elisabetha Samara as the number one seeded into doubles tournament. As well as Daniel Habesohn / Robert Gardos or WSA key players Joao Monteiro (with Tiago Apolonia) do have doubles-medal hopes.

And in the singles?

Sure, experienced all-time stars like Werner Schlager and Chen Weixing (which would, however, meet in round three Timo Boll) is what always are trusted. And: Freitas, Gardos or Dodean have with superior performance and some luck of the draw Europe's best ever at hand.

A thrilling EC is waiting for table tennis fans. That EC, which ushers also the countdown for the Home Championships in the Werner Schlager Academy (4th October 13, 2013). . .