Support for returnee Solja after an early exit from the top 16

Montreux (SID) National table tennis player Petrissa Solja (Berlin) still has a lot of work to do on her way back to the top due to her month-long break. After her first round exit from the Europe Top 16 at the weekend in Montreux, the 23-year-old received demonstrative encouragement from national coach Jie Schöpp. "For the six-month break from competition and training that Petrissa has had, that wasn't a bad performance at all," said Schöpp on the homepage of the German Table Tennis Association (DTTB) about the former double European champion's 1:4 defeat in the round of XNUMX duel with her Hungarian team Club colleague Georgina Pota: “We didn’t have any higher expectations.” Solja herself did not comment on her second appearance at an international tournament after resuming training, as she did after her comeback in mid-January at the Hungarian Open in Budapest (out of the qualifying play-offs). At the beginning of November, Solja announced that he would be taking a break from competition and training after a long period of absence due to an injury to his hitting arm. The official reason given by the DTTB last fall was that the former German champion was “physically and mentally exhausted”. Solja's time out and the ongoing uncertainty about her future performance are currently leaving the DTTB wondering about its prospects for success in the women's division. In the early summer of last year, Solja secured the first post-war medal for a DTTB native in a women's individual World Cup competition by winning bronze in mixed doubles at the World Championships in Düsseldorf. Her club ttc berlin eastside no longer expects Solja to return to the team in the course of the rest of the season in order to defend the championship title as hoped. The left-hander is said to want to avoid the pressure of responsibility in team games.

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Support for returnee Solja after an early exit from the top 16

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