The regular season of German Bundesliga has came to the end in a dramatic fashion and with historic accolades for the ASV Grünwettersbach. In the game day 22, the last one before the play-offs, Grünwettersbach needed to get a win against Post SV Mühlhausen to secure spot in the Final Four of the German league.
This meeting started with a dramatic 2-3 Wang Xi loss to Mühlhausen’s Steffen Mengel. Xi was leading 2-1, but Mengel managed to make a comeback, winning the fifth set 11-5. In the next game, Dang Qiu got a solid 3-0 win over the Austrian Daniel Habesohn. Then came the third game that was the crucial one in this meeting. Slovenian Deni Kozul and Czech Lubomir Jančarik put up a real intense fight. After several lead changes, it all came down to the fifth set that was won by Kozul. Grünwettersbach took a 2-1 lead and it was up to Wang Xi to secure the win against the Romanian Ovidiu Ionescu. After losing the first set, Xi turned the game around and pulled a 3-1 win that ended the match and secured Grünwettersbach’s place in the play-offs. There they gonna meet with Timo Boll’s Borussia Düsseldorf that ended the regular season in the top spot.
In other matches, Darko Jorgic made a great comeback against Borussia’s Timo Boll. After being down 0-2, Slovenian managed to win the next three sets, including the fifth one 11-2. However, this did not help his team much, as Saarbrücken still lost to Borussia 1-3.
GERMAN BUNDESLIGA GAME DAY 22
ASV Grünwettersbach – Post SV Mühlhausen (3-1)
Wang Xi – Steffen Mengel 2-3 (8-11, 11-9, 16-14, 8-11, 5-11) Dang Qiu – 
Daniel Habesohn 3-0 (11-8, 12-10, 11-9)
Deni Kozul – 
Lubomir Jančarik 3-2 (11-9, 9-11, 11-5, 11-13, 11-9) Wang Xi – 
Ovidiu Ionescu 3-1 (8-11, 11-9, 11-9, 11-3)
1. FC Saarbrücken TT – Borussia Düsseldorf (1-3) Patrick Franziska – 
Kristian Karlsson 1-3 (10-12, 11-8, 14-16, 5-11)
Dimitrije Levajac – Ricardo Walther 0-3 (9-11, 5-11, 12-14) Darko Jorgic – Timo Boll 3-2 (5-11, 5-11, 11-5, 11-8, 11-2) Patrick Franziska – Anton Källberg 2-3 (4-11, 9-11, 11-7, 15-13, 7-11)
TTC Neu-Ulm – TSV Bad Königshofen (3-0)
Emmanuel Lebesson – Bastian Steger 3-1 (13-11, 11-7, 11-13, 11-5)
Tiago Apolonia – Kilian Ort 3-1 (11-8, 11-8, 8-11, 11-5)
Vladimir Sidorenko – 
Filip Zeljko 3-0 (11-9, 11-7, 11-6)
TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt – TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen (3-2) Benedikt Duda – 
Maciej Kubik 3-1 (8-11, 11-8, 11-8, 11-3)
Alvaro Robles – Simon Gauzy 3-1 (11-7, 11-9, 4-11, 15-13)
Alberto Miño – Samuel Kulczycki 2-3 (8-11, 9-11, 11-2, 11-9, 7-11) Benedikt Duda – Simon Gauzy 2-3 (12-14, 9-11, 12-10, 11-7, 4-11) Alvaro Robles/Alberto Miño – Samuel Kulczycki/Maciej Kubik 3-0 (11-9, 11-7, 11-7)
TTC OE Bad Homburg – TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell (0-3) Lev Katsman – 
Quadri Aruna 2-3 (11-7, 8-11, 11-9, 6-11, 9-11) Maksim Grebnev – Ruwen Filus 0-3 (5-11, 9-11, 11-13) Nils Hohmeier – Fan Bo Meng 0-3 (8-11, 4-11, 9-11)
SV Werder Bremen – TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau (3-1)
Kirill Gerassimenko – 
Ioannis Sgouropoulos 3-1 (11-13, 11-6, 11-7, 11-9)
Marcelo Aguirre – Cristian Pletea 3-2 (11-13, 14-12, 5-11, 11-5, 11-7) Hunor Szőcs – 
Robin Devos 2-3 (11-13, 11-8, 14-12, 6-11, 9-11) Kirill Gerassimenko – Cristian Pletea 3-1 (11-5, 11-7, 3-11, 11-4)
BUNDESLIGA STANDINGS
| Pos. | Team | Won | Lost | Matches Won/Lost | Difference |
| 1 |  Borussia Düsseldorf   | 20 | 2 | 62-17 | +45 |
| 2 | 1. FC Saarbrücken TT | 15 | 7 | 56-25 | +31 |
| 3 | TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen | 15 | 7 | 55-35 | +20 |
| 4 | ASV Grünwettersbach | 13 | 9 | 52-42 | +10 |
| 5 | TTC Neu-Ulm | 13 | 9 | 46-38 | +8 |
| 6 | SV Werder Bremen | 12 | 10 | 44-44 | 0 |
| 7 | TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt | 12 | 10 | 43-45 | -2 |
| 8 | TSV Bad Königshofen | 11 | 11 | 45-45 | 0 |
| 9 | Post SV Mühlhausen | 11 | 11 | 43-44 | -1 |
| 10 | TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell | 6 | 16 | 32-54 | -22 |
| 11 | TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau  | 3 | 19 | 19-61 | -42 |
| 12 | TTC OE Bad Homburg | 1 | 21 | 18-65 | -47 |
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