The Challenger Teqball League - last year's new FITEQ tournament - returns in 2025 with eleven events. After the successful first two CTL events in Pecs and in Presov, the tournament moves to Belgium as Wavre hosts the next event between 4 and 6 of April. With 87 athletes representing 20 countries in four categories: men’s singles and men's & women's, and mixed doubles for a 4000€ prize pool and a Tier VI. event, Challenger Teqball League – Wavre Talentsquare, will be this season's biggest event in terms of the number of participants and represented countries. 

In the men’s singles, a serious showdown will take place as four of the top 10 players on the FITEQ World Ranking will compete for the title. The record champion, Adam Blazsovics, bronze medallist in Pecs, is naturally one of the competitors to beat. Multiple world and European medallists Hugo Rabeux (FRA) and Marek Pokwap (POL), as well as the runner-up from TWS Madrid in 2024, Martin Csereklye (HUN), are all considered favourites. However, Balazs Katz (HUN) is also an athlete to avoid for any challenger despite his 12th position in the WR as he mostly focuses on doubles, but after the silver medal in Pecs, he is once again testing the field. Yassine Sahli (TUN), world championship fifth and the highest-ranked Belgian Teqball player Jonathan Coquelle are ready to cause some trouble. The Polish wunderkind, Stefan Orlowski who dominated this year’s first international event in Pecs, Saxe Paarup-Clausen (DEN) who won everything at Teqball Cup – Pecs PSN and FITEQ World Ranking’s 37th, Alexander Hamm (AUT) or the Portuguese phenomenon, Martim Vasques will be worth to follow as the new generation’s faces. MS is the biggest field with 48 athletes at Challenger Teqball League – Wavre Talentsquare. 

Surprisingly, the current world champion, Apor Gyorgydeak (ROU), will not compete in men’s singles, as he chose men’s and mixed doubles. He and his teammate, Pokwap, debuted with a trophy in the CTL series in Presov, Slovakia. Blazsovics teamed with his friend, the three-time world champion Nikola Mitro (SRB) and Csaba Banyik/Balazs Katz, as current FITEQ WR leaders will both seek their first win in 2025. We would be surprised if the winner would not come from this trio. Gergo Dombai/Soma Cseri (HUN), their compatriots, Benjamin Patrik Toth/Boldizsar Levik and the world championships fifth, Oleh Usychenko/Dmytro Shevchuk (UKR) belong to the dark horse group but multiple talents under 23 will explore their chances such as the young French twosome, Lenny Mathe/Bandiougou Diawara. Although Mathe is 16 and Diawara is 17, they are still not the youngest as Elias Petzold (GER) - who teamed up with one of the most experienced athletes at the age of 51, Jean Thierry Belus (FRA) – is only 14.

A real delicacy awaits us in women’s doubles as the world silver medallists’ - Nora Vicsek/Petra Pechy (HUN) – biggest rival in Wavre are expected to be Krisztina Acs (HUN)/Kinga Barabasi (ROU) who never stood at the table together on the same side. Maria Chedid (LBN)/Amelia Julian (FRA), after the bronze medal at the latest CTL round, are eager to take revenge and return home with shinier medals. Silver medallist of women’s singles at Teqball Cup – Presov, Adriana Kecerova (SVK) play together with Lucie Stvrtnova (CZE) while the duo of Mira Fænø Dahlmann (DEN)/Silvia Ferrer Garcia (ESP) is another to follow. The winner of the aforementioned event, Timea Kapusi (HUN), tests herself on the side of a newcomer, Coleen Robiquet (FRA).

Last but not least, the FITEQ WR #1 and #2, world bronze medallists (2023), multiple Teqball World Series and Teqball Tour winners, Acs/Banyik are the heavy favourites of the mixed doubles category, but the another world bronze medallists (2024), Gyorgydeak/Barabasi who still unbeaten and triumphed both in Pecs and Presov are the main challengers. Csereklye/Pechy, Chedid/Mitro, Toth/Julian, and Levik/Vicsek belong to the second tier, but nobody would be surprised if any of them reached the final. 

The finals will be held in La Sucrerie Wavre, providing an illustrious environment and will be streamed live on TEQ TV. The program starts with men’s singles at 3:00 PM (CET), followed by women's doubles and men’s doubles. Challenger Teqball League – Wavre Talentsquare finishes with the final of the mixed doubles.