Marcos Freitas

The Portuguese Marcos Freitas and the Croatian Andrej Gacina lost today in the Semi Final Men’s Doubles competition at the German Open, an event that ends tomorrow Sunday, in Berlin. After having beaten in the quarter finals the Czech Tomas Konecny and Dmitrij Prokopcov in five games, the European pair lost against the powerful and experienced Chinese pair formed by two players from the World’s Top ten and no.4 seed Hao Shuai and Zhang Jike. Freitas and Gacina lost after a five games duel with the margins of 11-13, 7-11, 9-11, 11-6 and 8-11. Freitas and Gacina were the only European pairing surrounded by three strong Chinese pairs and achieved a brilliant and honorable third place in the Men’s Doubles event in Berlin.

photo: by courtesy of the ITTF