Overview

• The DTTB is reviewing TTC Eastside Berlin’s protest over nearly 40 °C hall conditions and will announce a decision by week’s end.
• Eastside walked off at 0:2 in the June 30 return final in Weinheim, awarding TTC Weinheim its first national women’s title.
• German rules mandate a minimum venue temperature of 15 °C but no upper cap, unlike the ETTU’s 35 °C limit.
• Manager Andreas Hain anticipates a protest dismissal and plans to take the case to a sports tribunal under the German Olympic Sports Confederation’s Safe Code.
• Fifteen-year-old Josi Neumann said she likely would have collapsed if the match had continued another half hour.