Montenegrin para table tennis player Filip Radović will play in the second group at the European Championships in Helsingborg with Polish Pawel Wlodik and Marlon Lopez from Spain, it was decided today by the draw.
Luka Bakić's rivals in the first group will be Frenchman Mateo Bohas and German Mio Wagner.
Radović and Bakić will compete in the S10 category.
Group three includes Austrian Christian Gardos, defending champion Polish Patrick Chojnowski, Briton Shay Tucker and Philip Hein from Luxembourg, while group four includes Pole Igor Mištal, Spaniard Jose Manuel Ruiz, Mateo Scuto from Luxembourg and Georg Beglarian from Armenia.
The two best from each of the four groups will advance to the quarterfinals.
The competition in the S 10 category will start tomorrow.
Radović will face Lopez at the start, at 10:50, while he will meet Vlodik at 16:50.
Bakić will play only one match tomorrow, at 16:50 PM, against Bohas.
A day later, at 14:50 p.m., his rival will be Vagner.
The quarterfinal and semifinal matches are scheduled for Saturday, while the final is scheduled for Sunday.
Montenegrin table tennis players in Helsingborg will be led by coaches Čedomir Damjanović and Dejan Bašanović.
After six years, Helsingborg will once again host the best para table tennis players in Europe, with 264 competitors from 37 countries participating.
It will be the return of Radović and Bakić to the Swedish port, where in 2019 they achieved one of the greatest successes in the history of Montenegrin table tennis.
Radović then played in the European singles final for the first time in his career, while with Bakić and Dejan Bašanović he won his first and so far only team medal.
He will play for his fifth individual European medal in Helsingborg.
In addition to Helsingborg, he won a silver medal in Sheffield 2023, while he won bronze in Vejle, Denmark, in 2015 and Laško in 2017.
He also has a team bronze with Bakić and Bašanović, and is the holder of two Paralympic medals, bronze from Tokyo 2021 and Paris 2024.
Bakić does not have a medal in singles, and at the last championship he was stopped in the quarterfinals.
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