EVC 2022 - UPDATE
Table Tennis Wales will host the biggest table tennis tournament ever to be held in Wales, when the prestigious European Veteran’s Championships (EVC) will take place at Cardiff Metropolitan University (26 June - 2 July, 2022).
The tournament has become one of the greatest festivals of table tennis in Europe, featuring some of the best players to ever grace the sport.
Prior to the tournament coming to Wales, it had been held in Finland (Tampere, 2015), Sweden (Helsingborg, 2017) and Hungary (Budapest, 2019).
The EVC was originally scheduled to take place in Wales in the summer of 2021. But with other tournaments in early 2021 already postponed (due to COVID-19) and rescheduled for later in the season, and the potential congestion of those events all taking place in the latter half of the year, Table Tennis Wales (as the host National Association) and the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU) have agreed the new 2022 date – thus ensuring that the very best senior players will be free and able to travel to Wales and compete for glory at the very highest level.
And players expected to take part include three time English Open title and nine time Gold Medal winner Ivan Vitsek (Czech Republic), Min Yang (Chinese-Italian), János Kovács (Hungary), Manfred Nieswand (Germany), Cedric Merchez (Belgium), Katalina Gatinska (Bulgaria), Olga Nemeș (Germany), Dina Minakova (Russia) and Branka Batinić – a Croatian and former Yugoslav international table tennis player, who participated in six world championships and represented Yugoslavia in over 250 tournaments in the 1970s and 1980s.
“We have been working closely with the ETTU to establish the best option for our EVC tournament and we are delighted that the ETTU are supportive of moving it to 2022,” says Table Tennis Wales CEO, Rhian Pearce.
“The COVID-19 crisis is proving an extremely difficult challenge for society and sport at present and we look forward to welcoming all the players to Cardiff in 2022 to our fantastic event.”
CARDIFF IS HOSTING EVC 2022
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