Borussia Düsseldorf suffered its first defeat of the season in the top game of the table tennis Bundesliga.
On the 10th matchday, the team from the state capital was beaten 2-3 by second-placed 1. FC Saarbrücken on Wednesday evening.
The duel between the two best club teams in Europe was moved to the Hamburg sports hall for PR reasons and attracted 3,500 spectators.
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Record European champion Timo Boll lost the opening match for Borussia against his German national team colleague Patrick Franziska in 2:3 sets. With the score at 2-1 for Saarbrücken, the 42-year-old forced a decisive fifth game with a 3-1 win against Romanian Eduard Ionescu. There, Saarbrücken’s Patrick Franziska and Cedric Meissner won 3-0 in doubles against Anton Källberg and Borgar Haug.
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