Top Stars Back In Böblingen For Bundesliga Finals by Howard Harding 4 May 2014
- Defending champions Black & White Worms and nine-time champions
Paderborner SC will be bidding to contest the third successive
fotobuch.de Squash Bundesliga final in Böblingen, near Stuttgart, in
Germany this week.
Black & White
Worms, led by England's World Champion Nick Matthew, won the coveted
title for a second time last year after denying Paderborner SC a record
tenth title in a dramatic 2013 climax.
Launched in 1980, the Squash Bundesliga has attracted the world's top players, competing alongside Germany's best.
Action for the second
year will take place at Pink Power in Böblingen - the semi-finals on
Friday 9 May, with the final the following day.
In the first
semi-final, Paderborner, led by eight-time German champion Simon
Rösner, will face Königsbrunner SC - a Division 2 club last season who
have made the finals in their first year in Division 1.
Title-holders Black
& White Worms, again led by World No2 Nick Matthew, will take on
hosts Sport-Insel Stuttgart, the 2006 champions, in the second semi.
Stuttgart's number one
is Gregory Gaultier, the World No1 from France - while the
Königsbrunner squad is also headed by a Frenchman, World No23 Matthieu
Castagnet.
Sponsored by ROWE
Motoroil, live coverage of the event will be provided by SquashTV. "We
have renewed our support to the Bundesliga, as last year's presentation
was very successful," said Michael Zehe, CEO of ROWE Motoroil. "Again
we support the event and additionally we have contributed to enable the
organisers presenting the Bundesliga live on TV worldwide."
