Champions League Women: Etival beat holders Tarnobrzeg

Etival beat holders Tarnobrzeg by one game as ETTU Champions League Women Stage 2 opens

Yangzi Liu won the decisive game in the last match as the French club edged the defending champions under the new 15-game format.

By Eleven Team10 November 2026, 23:25

Key matches

Stage 2, round 1ETTU Champions League Women

KTS Enea Siarkopol TarnobrzegPOL

Etival ASRTTFRA

Final result

He Zhuojia CHN 1–2 Yangzi Liu AUS 7–118–1111–4

Han Ying GER 0–3 Christina Källberg SWE 8–1110–1210–12

Fu Yu POR 1–2 Jieni Shao POR 8–116–1111–4

He Zhuojia CHN 3–0 Christina Källberg SWE 11–611–811–8

Han Ying GER 2–1 Yangzi Liu AUS 11–310–1211–8

More results

Stage 2, round 1 SKST Plus Hodonín CZE 4–11 UCAM Cartagena ESP

Stage 2, round 1 Saint-Quentin TT FRA 11–4 Linz AG Froschberg AUT

Etival beat the defending champions, KTS Enea Siarkopol Tarnobrzeg, 8-7 on games in Poland on Tuesday night as the ETTU Champions League Women's second stage opened, while UCAM Cartagena and Saint-Quentin both won 11-4.

Stage 2 is played to a different format from the first stage: all 15 games in each tie are played, over five best-of-three matches, and the result is decided by total games won. That made every game count in Tarnobrzeg, where the French club built a lead early and held on to it by a single game.

Etival hold on in Tarnobrzeg

Etival won the first three matches, although Liu and Shao each dropped a final game. Australia's Yangzi Liu beat He Zhuojia 11-7, 11-8 before losing the third game 11-4, Sweden's Christina Källberg beat Han Ying 11-8, 12-10, 12-10, and Portugal's Jieni Shao beat her compatriot Fu Yu 11-8, 11-6 before dropping the last game. That left the visitors 7-2 up and one game from victory.

Tarnobrzeg came back hard. He, the world No 48, beat Källberg 11-6, 11-8, 11-8, and Han, the 43-year-old defender ranked 16th in the world, took the first game of the last match against Liu 11-3 to make it 7-6. Liu won the second 12-10 to give Etival their eighth game, and Han's 11-8 win in the third only reduced the margin.

It was a hard week for two of Tarnobrzeg's players. Fu, 47, won WTT Feeder Vila Nova de Gaia in front of her home crowd on Sunday, dropping only two games all week, while Han knocked out the third seed, Wang Yidi, at WTT Champions Frankfurt last week.

"We are very happy that we managed to beat a club that has been at the top for so many years," Liu said. Han said: "We are very sad now. We lost by the narrowest of margins despite putting up a great fight." She added that she had found the new rules a little difficult and expected things to improve once the players got used to the system.

Cartagena win in Hodonín

Cartagena lost the opening match, England's Tin-Tin Ho going down 11-6, 7-11, 12-10 to Karin Grofova, but won 11 of the next 13 games. Spain's Maria Xiao recovered from losing the first game 11-2 to Marketa Sevcikova to win in three, Chile's Daniela Ortega beat Anna Klempererova in straight games, and Xiao then beat Grofova 11-9, 11-7, 16-14. Ho finished the night by beating Sevcikova 11-4, 9-11, 11-7. Wales's Anna Hursey, who is in Cartagena's squad, did not play.

"It was a very good start to the season, and we are very happy with today's performance," Xiao said. Hodonín had come through Stage 1 in Budaörs in August unbeaten.

Saint-Quentin win every match

Saint-Quentin won all five matches at home to Linz AG Froschberg, the other unbeaten Stage 1 qualifiers. Camille Lutz beat Yurika Namba 11-7, 11-5, 11-4 and Sara Tokic 11-6, 8-11, 11-8, Canada's Mo Zhang beat Tokic and then Namba, taking the deciding game against Namba 13-11, and Polina Mikhailova came from a game down to beat Emiko Taguchi.

Results

KTS Enea Siarkopol Tarnobrzeg 7-8 Etival ASRTT: Yangzi Liu bt He Zhuojia 11-7, 11-8, 4-11; Christina Källberg bt Han Ying 11-8, 12-10, 12-10; Jieni Shao bt Fu Yu 11-8, 11-6, 4-11; He Zhuojia bt Christina Källberg 11-6, 11-8, 11-8; Han Ying bt Yangzi Liu 11-3, 10-12, 11-8
SKST Plus Hodonín 4-11 UCAM Cartagena: Karin Grofova bt Tin-Tin Ho 11-6, 7-11, 12-10; Maria Xiao bt Marketa Sevcikova 2-11, 11-5, 11-7; Daniela Ortega bt Anna Klempererova 11-2, 11-7, 11-9; Maria Xiao bt Karin Grofova 11-9, 11-7, 16-14; Tin-Tin Ho bt Marketa Sevcikova 11-4, 9-11, 11-7
Saint-Quentin TT 11-4 Linz AG Froschberg: Mo Zhang bt Sara Tokic 8-11, 11-6, 11-9; Camille Lutz bt Yurika Namba 11-7, 11-5, 11-4; Polina Mikhailova bt Emiko Taguchi 9-11, 11-3, 11-5; Mo Zhang bt Yurika Namba 8-11, 11-8, 13-11; Camille Lutz bt Sara Tokic 11-6, 8-11, 11-8

What's next

The first round finishes on Wednesday, when TTC Berlin Eastside play Metz at 6pm local time (5pm UK). On Saturday Cartagena host Tarnobrzeg and Etival host Hodonín, both at 7pm (6pm UK), and Metz play Saint-Quentin at 7.30pm (6.30pm UK); Linz host Berlin on Sunday at 4pm (3pm UK). The top two in the group of eight go straight to the Final Four on 1-2 May 2027. The table is on Eleven's Champions League page.