In the first leg of the 2022 UEFA Champions Table Tennis Championship semi-finals, the German club's derby ended with a big victory over giants Düsseldorf, in which the Chinese straight board player Qiu Dang faced Francesca, the third main force of the German table tennis national team, in the first set, to open the door for Düsseldorf 3-2 (11-7/11-5/9-11/11-13/6-3), and then Carlberg defeated Dakob 3-1 to extend the victory, and the last Pol took Polanski 3-0. It also allowed Düsseldorf to win 3-0 against their opponent Saarbrücken, and one foot had already entered the final door.
In the German Table Tennis League, Düsseldorf and Saarbrucken are the two strongest clubs, as early as 2019, former Shanghai national Shang Kun once joined Saarbrücken and made a contribution to the club's league championship, showing his solid basic skills and excellent skills, despite withdrawing from the national team, his strength was still undiminished that year. This season, Saarbrucken wants to win the league and Champions League again, Düsseldorf is a hurdle that cannot be bypassed, and Düsseldorf, which has many strong players such as Bohr, Chu Dang, Carlberg, Carlsson and so on, shows that it is even better.
In the first set of the first round of the Champions League semi-finals, Düsseldorf sent straight board player Qiu Dang to Play Francesca in Saarbrücken's No. 1 single. Both players are the main players of the German men's team, and Qiu Dang has been given a large number of opportunities to participate in WTT's low-level events after the Tokyo Olympic Games, and has narrowed the gap with the German three main players Pol, Ochalov and Francesca through the use of competitions. At the beginning of the game, Qiu Dang put up a fighting posture, giving full play to the advantages of the straight board play on the first three boards, the serve and serve effect was perfect, did not give Francesca extra mobile phone meeting, and forced the opponent into a desperate situation by winning 2 sets first with the sharp forehand attack tactics of 11-7, 11-5. In the 3rd set, Francesca of Saarbrücken won 11-9 after a mid-set timeout and a difficult 13-11 equaliser after saving two sets in the 4th set. In the Champions League decider on a six-point system, Qiu Dang continued to play the advantage of straight serves and serves, and with faster form investment, defeated the powerful Francesca 6-3, taking the lead in scoring the first point for Dusseldorf.
In the second set, Düsseldorf's first singles Swedish foreign aid Carlberg appeared, the opponent is Saarbrücken's Slovenian star Dako Jokic, the two belong to the new generation of Young European players, Carlberg in the Houston World Table Tennis Championships and Lin Gaoyuan battled 7 sets, if it is not a bad signing early encounter with the main force of national table tennis, I am afraid it will continue to go further, Dako Has the Olympic And World Cup men's singles quarterfinals experience. In this game, both of them showed great ups and downs, and the lead became fearful: in the first set, Dako fell behind, but Carlberg did not seize the lead, and at the end of the set, Dakoco won the set point 10-9, but in the end it was still Carlberg's 12-10 reversal; in the second set, Carlberg was pulled back by Dakob 11-8 in the lead; In the third set, Carlberg overtook the score 11-8; in the fourth set, Dako won two innings at 10-8, but Waschberg won the second set 15-13.
Two sets in hand in Düsseldorf played In the third set by Ball against Polanski of Saarbrücken. This is Pol's first game after recovering from the new crown and injury, the 41-year-old world champion did not say a word, still said that he wanted to participate in the Paris Olympic Games, the game Bol always controlled the overall situation, the Czech player Polanski was almost controlled by Pol, there was no way to fight back, and finally Pol won 11-6, 11-7 and 11-9, and Düsseldorf also took the first city in the two-legged match of the Champions League semi-final.