Hugo seeks to end his successful run with Liebherr Ochsenhausen winning one more title: in his last match for the club, he will attempt to claim his second championship in the Bundesliga, as the German table tennis league is known. The final will be held this Sunday, June 15, in Frankfurt, against the defending four-time champions Borussia Düsseldorf. Check out everything you need to know about this matchup below:

IN PURSUIT OF A FOURTH TROPHY

Hugo is going for his fourth title with Ochsenhausen. In the 2018/19 season, he was the star player in the club’s triumph in the German Cup and the German League, ending a 15-year wait for trophies.

The third title came earlier this year, when Hugo led the team to victory in the German Cup: he won all four of his matches and was named Most Valuable Player of the Final Four, which was played on the same day.

CLASH OF TITANS

With four titles, Ochsenhausen is one of the most successful clubs in the German League: since its foundation in 1956, only three other clubs have won more titles. One of them is Borussia Düsseldorf, the competition’s record holder with 34 titles.

THE CAMPAIGNS

The finalists had the two best campaigns in the qualifying phase, almost identical. Both teams won 16 of their 22 matches, but Düsseldorf came out ahead in the tying criteria.

The teams met twice in the first phase, with Ochsenhausen winning both times. At home, they won 3-1. Hugo scored one of his team’s points, defeating Germany’s Timo Boll 3-0. He did not participate in the second match, which ended 3-2.

In the semifinals, Ochsenhausen beat Saarbrücken-TT twice by 3-0. On the other side of the bracket, Düsseldorf knocked out Bad Königshofen by also winning the first two matches of the best-of-three series.

HUGO’S SEASON

Hugo has the best record among all German League players this season, with a 94.4% win rate. He has won 19 out of 20 matches, with 59 sets won and only 11 lost.

Hugo was also named Player of the Month in the League three times: January, April, and May of this year.

WHO WILL BE ON EACH SIDE

In addition to Hugo, ranked #3 in the world, Ochsenhausen will feature France’s Simon Gauzy (35th), Japan’s Shunsuke Togami (30th), Brazil’s Leonardo Iizuka (77th), and Portugal’s Tiago Abiodun (346th).

It is worth remembering that only one non-European player is allowed per match. Thus, Togami and Iizuka cannot be selected together. As he has Portuguese citizenship, Hugo is included in the list of EU players.

On the other side, Düsseldorf will have Germans Dang Qiu (12th), Timo Boll, and Kay Stumper (70th), Sweden’s Anton Källberg (14th), and Norway’s Borgar Haug (79th).

The match will also feature another farewell: it will be the last time that Timo Boll, former world #1, will play a professional table tennis match.

COMPETITION SYSTEM

The final is played over a best of five matches, with up to four singles and one doubles, structured as follows:

Team 1 (players A, B and C) vs. Team 2 (X, Y and Z)

• A vs. Y
• B vs. X
• C vs. Z
• A vs. X
• Doubles

HOW TO FOLLOW

You can follow our coverage on Hugo’s WhatsApp channel and also on his broadcast channel on Instagram.