2nd worldcup championships 2010

Participating nations 

Seven nations took part in the second wrestling world championships, including the world championship debutants Poland and Belarus .

•  Bangladesh
•  Brazil
•  Germany
•  India
•  Poland
•  Belarus
•  South Africa

Four members of the WTF did not take part in the World Cup. Pakistan had reported as four years earlier, but was prevented from attending due to problems with entry.

•  Argentina
•  Nepal
•  New Zealand
•  Pakistan

Membership in the World Tenniquoits Federation is a prerequisite for participating in the World Ring Tennis Championships. Each member nation was allowed to register 6 women and 6 men, as well as 3 other delegation members (trainers, referees, etc.) for the competitions of the World Ring Tennis Championships 2010.

German team  

The German World Cup team was nominated by national coach Mario Müller from Hamburg on April 23, 2010 as part of the crown tournament in Siegen . 9 members of the world championship team from 2006 belonged again to the German team. With an average age of around 27, it was the youngest national team of all time.

Competitions 

Individual World Championships Women  

The 16-year-old South African number 1 Lenize Potgieter prevailed at the women’s individual World Cup . The hopeless final opponent Vera Vollhase had previously defeated the reigning world champion Sabrina Westphal in the semifinals. Places 4 and 5 also went to hosts Germany. There was a total of 21 players, the winner was determined in the knockout system .

Preliminary round
Rosana Aguiar	Magdalena Stankiewicz	31:58
Julia Kalbyka	Irmarie Kruger	15:58
Bassima Carmet	Sujita Sinha	15:54
Maria Aparecida Parra	Deepashree Devaraju	22:54
Suely Sierra	Anna Wangryn	25:60
Round of 16
Sabrina Westphal	Magdalena Stankiewicz	62: 29
Irmarie Kruger	Nisha Prakash	49: 38
Melicia Sauer	Sujita Sinha	54:30
Vera Vollhase	Ada Trawczynska	62:16
Lenize Potgieter	Deepashree Devaraju	60: 28
Michaela Güthling	Paulina Wangryn	58: 14
Nicole Schellert	Heleen Potgieter	51: 33
Anna Wangryn	Sameera Begum	15:57
Quarter finals
Sabrina Westphal	Irmarie Kruger	55: 39
Melicia Sauer	Vera Vollhase	33:43
Lenize Potgieter	Michaela Güthling	55: 37
Nicole Schellert	Sameera Begum	48:32
Semifinals
Sabrina Westphal	Vera Vollhase	35: 39
Lenize Potgieter	Nicole Schellert	47:42
3rd place match
Sabrina Westphal	Nicole Schellert	48: 41
final
Vera Vollhase	Lenize Potgieter	37:48

Final ranking 

1.	Lenize Potgieter			9.	Heleen Potgieter
2.	Vera Vollhase			10.	Nisha Prakash
3.	Sabrina Westphal			11th	Deepashree Devaraju
4th	Nicole Schellert			12th	Sujita Sinha
5.	Michaela Güthling			13th	Ada Trawczynska
6th	Irmarie Kruger			14th	Paulina Wangryn
7th	Melicia Sauer			15th	Magdalena Stankiewicz
8th.	Sameera Begum			16.	Anna Wangryn

Single Men’s World Championship  

World champion Dominic Schubardt defended the title he had won in Chennai (India) in 2006 , while his opponent Alexej Ermak, who was 10 years younger than him, was left behind. The semi-finals were a purely German affair, as all four German players survived their quarter-finals against South African and Indian competition. In total there was a starting field of 20 players, the winner was determined in the knockout system.

Preliminary round
Andrej Konan	Marek Gil	37: 26
Ilya Sadau	Narayana Surya	21:76
Ivan Koltun	Kumara Govindarajan	31:55
Alex Stasheuski	Maciej Tobolski	44:52
Round of 16
Dominic Schubardt	Andrej Konan	60: 27
Hanno Pienaar	Mahinder Balaji	53:29
Bertus le Roux	Narayana Surya	63: 28
Timo Hufnagel	Sebastian Podsiadly	46: 38
Craig Ogilvie	Kumara Govindarajan	47: 46
Alexei Ermak	Michal Suszczynski	64:22
Maximilian Speicher	Justin Kokott (task)	20: 0
Maciej Tobolski	Lakshman Rao	25: 62
Quarter finals
Dominic Schubardt	Hanno Pienaar	37:30
Bertus le Roux	Timo Hufnagel	37:46
Craig Ogilvie	Alexei Ermak	36:40
Maximilian Speicher	Lakshman Rao	53: 41
Semifinals
Dominic Schubardt	Timo Hufnagel	43: 31
Alexei Ermak	Maximilian Speicher	44:30
3rd place match
Timo Hufnagel	Maximilian Speicher	55:42
final
Dominic Schubardt	Alexei Ermak	31:24

Final ranking 

1.	Dominic Schubardt			9.	Sebastian Podsiadly
2.	Alexei Ermak			10.	Kumara Govindarajan
3.	Timo Hufnagel			11th	Mahinder Balaji
4th	Maximilian Speicher			12th	Maciej Tobolski
5.	Craig Ogilvie			13th	Narayana Surya
6th	Hanno Pienaar			14th	Michal Suszczynski
7th	Bertus le Roux			15th	Andrej Konan
8th.	Lakshman Rao			16.	Justin Kokott

Team World Cup 

The South African team dethroned defending champions Germany after a 12: 8 in the last encounter of the Team World Cup. Due to better results against the other nations, Germany would have had a 10:10 draw. However, South Africa was in the front after the first individual lap and carried this lead through the following four laps. In the game for third place, Poland offered the Indians tough resistance, but ultimately had no chance.

World champions Germany, South Africa, India and newcomer Poland competed in the team competition. Belarus, Brazil and Bangladesh couldn’t muster a full team. Instead, they played together as a combined team under the flag of the World Tenniquoits Federation and out of competition.

A national team encounter in ring tennis consists of 2 women and men singles (DE, HE), 2 mixed doubles (Mix) and 2 women and men doubles (DD, HD).

Germany vs South Africa – Decision to Place 1 

In the last encounter, defending champions Germany lost the World Cup to South Africa. The decisive factor here were the surprising defeats of the two individual world champions in 2006, Sabrina Westphal and Dominic Schubardt, against Melicia Sauer and Hanno Pienaar .

	Germany	South Africa
HE1	Timo Hufnagel	Bertus le Roux	47:31	2-0
DE1	Sabrina Westphal	Melicia Sauer	45:57	0: 2
HE2	Dominic Schubardt	Hanno Pienaar	34:37	0: 2
DE2	Nicole Schellert	Lenize Potgieter	43:53	0: 2
Mix1	Sarah Kissinger / Timo Hufnagel	Heleen Potgieter / Craig Ogilvie	32:28	2-0
Mix2	Sabrina Westphal / Jürgen Öttel	Lenize Potgieter / Hanno Pienaar	18:20	0: 2
HD1	Timo Hufnagel / Alexej Ermak	Craig Ogilvie / Judge van Tonder	53:38	2-0
DD1	Vera Vollhase / Michaela Güthling	Melicia Sauer / Irmarie Kruger	49:59	0: 2
HD2	Maximilian Speicher / Dominic Schubardt	Bertus le Roux / Hanno Pienaar	45:35	2-0
DD2	Nicole Schellert / Sabrina Westphal	Heleen Potgieter / Lenize Potgieter	47:56	0: 2
			413: 414	8:12

India against Poland – Decision for 3rd place 

The victory of the more experienced Indian team against newcomer Poland was ultimately clear, although fiercely contested in places. Worth mentioning here, however, are the victories of the Polish player Sebastian Podsiadly , who competes for the team of TuS Rodenbach (Turnverband Mittelrhein) and thus played in front of his home crowd.

	India	Poland
HE1	Lakshman Rao	Sebastian Podsiadly	41:44	0: 2
DE1	Deepashree Devaraju	Patricia Podsiadly	48:46	2-0
HE2	Kumar Govindarajan	Michal Suszczynski	61:30	2-0
DE2	Nisha Prakash	Ada Trawczynska	51:34	2-0
Mix1	Deepashree Devaraju / Lakshman Rao	Patricia Podsiadly / Sebastian Podsiadly	37:42	0: 2
Mix2	Sameera Begum / Narayana Surya	Anna Wangryn / Maciej Tobolski	57:28	2-0
HD1	Lakshman Rao / Kumar Govindarajan	Marek Gil / Piotr Pawlak	64:29	2-0
DD1	Sameera Begum / Apeksha Devaraju	Ada Trawczynska / Patricia Podsiadly	46:44	2-0
HD2	Naranaya Surya / Nasa Rakesh	Sebastian Podsiadly / Michal Suszczynski	20: 0	2-0
DD2	Deepashree Devaraju / Nisha Prakash	Paulina Wangryn / Anna Wangryn	71:30	2-0
			496: 327	16: 4

Final ranking 

	team						Points	place
	Germany		8:12	20: 0	20: 0	20: 0	6th	2.
	South Africa	12: 8		18: 2	18: 2	20: 0	8th	1.
	India	0:20	2: 18		16: 4	20: 0	4th	3.
	Poland	0:20	2: 18	4:16		20: 0	2	4th
	WTF Combined	0:20	0:20	0:20	0:20		0	5.

Frame competitions 

The framework competitions in mixed, alternating and classic doubles were given the status of demonstration competitions, as they did 4 years earlier, but are also considered unofficial world championships. In alternating doubles, as in table tennis, the partners must alternately accept and throw back the ring; in classic doubles, the order is free as in tennis.

The World Tenniquoits Federation awarded up to 5 further wild cards per competition in addition to the participants of the national teams . For example, young German talents and South African delegation members received international match practice. The hosts won 4 of the 5 titles.

At the General Meeting of the World Tenniquoits Federation on August 5th in Koblenz, the disciplines mixed and alternating doubles received the status of official World Championship competitions from the next Ring Tennis World Championships in 2014.

Mixed doubles  

The framework competition in mixed doubles marked the start of the world championships. The veterans Sabrina Westphal and Christian Herzog prevailed in a high-class final against the young South African doubles Lenize Potgieter and Hanno Pienaar. During the competition, the previously damaged number 1 of the South Africans, Judge van Tonder , was seriously injured, so that he had to pause until the last day of the competition.

Final ranking
1.	Sabrina Westphal / Christian Herzog
2.	Lenize Potgieter / Hanno Pienaar
3.	Sarah Kissinger / Timo Hufnagel
4th	Melicia Sauer / Justin Kokott
5.	Vera Vollhase / Maximilian Speicher
6th	Anette Henning / Abrie Pienaar (Wild Card)
7th	Lakshman Rao / Deepashree Devaraju
8th.	Judge van Tonder / Heleen Potgieter

Alternating double  

In alternating doubles, Maximilian Speicher and Dominic Schubardt were able to repeat their surprise success at the last World Championships, while Lenize Potgieter and her mother Heleen won one of their 3 gold medals. It is also worth mentioning the third place of the Indian doubles Rao / Govindarajan , who won the first Indian medal in an individual competition. 

Final ranking women
1.	Heleen Potgieter / Lenize Potgieter
2.	Sabrina Westphal / Vera Vollhase
3.	Irmarie Kruger / Melicia Sauer
4th	Nicole Schellert / Sarah Kissinger
5.	Melanie Böttcher / Michaela Güthling
6th	Miriam Hartman / Bronwin Human
7th	Nisha Prakash / Deepashree Devaraju
8th.	Stefanie Kaiser / Sophia Speicher (Wild Card)
Final ranking men
1.	Dominic Schubardt / Maximilian Speicher
2.	Alexej Ermak / Jürgen Öttel
3.	Lakshman Rao / Kumara Govindarajan
4th	Craig Ogilvie / Rowan van Tonder
5.	Bertus le Roux / Hanno Pienaar
6th	Christian Kämper / Sebastian Weber (Wild Card)
7th	Mahinder Balaji / Balu Murali
8th.	Christian Herzog / Timo Hufnagel

Classic double 

Many players use the framework competition in classic doubles for a break from competition before the team competition, as this form of doubles is of little importance in international ring tennis. Thus there were good chances for wild card players to advance to higher regions of the final rankings. Among other things, the reigning German champions in men’s doubles Andre Katzberg and Tim Flender were at the start, but they lost out to the national team doubles Hufnagel / Speicher in the final. 

Final ranking women
1.	Michaela Güthling / Nicole Schellert
2.	Melanie Böttcher / Sarah Kissinger
3.	Bronwin Human / Miriam Hartman
4th	Reni Etimiri / Elena fighters (Wild Card)
5.	Patricia Podsiadly / Monika Schmitz (Wild Card)
6th	Alexandra Boelsen / Janine Bleile (Wild Card)
7th	Raba Krasniqi / Melanie Gemünd (Wild Card)
8th.	Magdalena Stankiewicz / Anna Wangryn
Final ranking men
1.	Timo Hufnagel / Maximilian Speicher
2.	Andre Katzberg / Tim Flender (Wild Card)
3.	Alexej Ermak / Jürgen Öttel
4th	Thomas Bleile / Klaus Riehm (Wild Card)
5.	Julian Sauck / Tobias Höfelmayr (Wild Card)
6th	Florian Weber / Stefan Edelmann (Wild Card)
7th	Evert Potgieter / Hein van der Lith (Wild Card)
8th.	Andrej Konan / Ivan Koltun

Medal table 

Official Competitions 

country
South Africa	2	0	0
Germany	1	3	2
India	0	0	1

Frame included competitions 

country
Germany	5	6th	4th
South Africa	3	1	2
Germany (Wild Card)	0	1	0
India	0	0	2