When the dent was handed out, it was Källberg who symbolically first had to raise it while confetti was sprayed over the team where everyone wore white mouth guards.

- I was hoping to win matches.

But it was hard to believe that I could win over both Franziska and Shang Kun, says 23-year-old Källberg in the European Table Tennis Association's broadcast.

The arrangement of playing in a "bubble" for a week made the format different.

- It was more like a championship, says Källberg.

Källberg initially played drömpingis against Saarbrucken's 30-year-old Chinese Shang Kun, who was ranked 45th as the best, when everything was to be decided in the protracted drama.

But the match went to the arbitration set at 2-2.

When it was 4-4, Källberg timed out and the organizer played Europe's "The final countdown" in the arena.

Källberg won the first ball after the timeout and went to 5-4 and got the match ball because the arbitration set was only played to 6. However, Källberg failed to lift a forehand far down the table and the score was 5-5.

Then the strange thing happened that both players got a match ball.

Källberg served and Shang Kun missed with his backhand and Källberg won the set 6-5 and the match 3-2.

Then the organizer Abbas played "The winner takes it all".

The first to hug Källberg was his Swedish teammate Kristian Karlsson. 

- There came the clinical backhand again, or lethal if you will, said the commentator at the European Table Tennis Association in the live broadcast after an unattainable ball from Källberg in the second set.

- There was a lot of pressure on us and it was important to win the title in our hall, our living room, says Timo Boll, who was the third cog in Düsseldorf.

Källberg started with a heavy scalp

Källberg had a whole night against Patrick Franziska, ranked 16th in the world, and won 3-1.

He dictated the match immediately and won the first set 11-2 and the German did not hang out at all with the Swede who whipped in point after point.

Källberg then stormed up to 9-3 in the second set before it started to get tough but the Swede could still win the set 11-7.

In the third set, Franziska went up to 10-7 and Källberg created nerve by crawling up to 10-9 but the German won a tough last ball and the set with 11-9.

In the fourth set, it was again Källberg who had the baton and went on with extremely hard openings that were more smashes than loops.

He got four match balls to 10-6 through such an offensive stroke.

Franziska resisted a similar opening on the first match ball and then made a sweaty save in one corner before Källberg mercilessly slammed the match ball.

Franziska was on it but could not lift it back on the table.

One week ago, the 15 best teams in Europe gathered in Düsseldorf to carry out the Champions League final in a "bubble".