On the French west coast, Kristian Karlsson has started the journey back after his nasty injury.
In the EC semi-final against Darko Jorgic, it was 2–2 in the set and 5–5 when he looped a return.
It turned out to be too short, and Karlsson hit the table hard with his hand.
- I know it's my hand that sounds.
No, oops.
It's not a fun clip to watch, says Kristian Karlsson to SVT Sport, who meets him in Hennebont.
A town of 15,000 inhabitants where he started training again after the injury and made his debut for the club.
Who have signed him in a bid to once again aspire to the league title - and here he could have made an entrance shortly after his greatest individual success.
He shows his scar on his left hand, and jokes that he will become a cyborg after his career.
But that is many years away.
Because it is a Swedish table tennis tradition to be able to belong to the absolute world elite for several decades - where icons like Jan-Ove Waldner and Jörgen Persson made it to the semi-finals at the Olympics when they were around 40 years old.
"Not easy to meet"
For Karlsson has now succeeded in a feat not even those managed and which no Swedes have done since Hans Alsér and Kjell Johansson in 1967. Namely, together with Mattias Falck, at the same time being both reigning world champion and European champion in doubles.
And the 31-year-old has also proven that he has when he serves himself at the table.
Although he was blown away at a possible individual European Championship gold.
He wants to make his way even higher into the world elite, by carrying Sweden against more noble medals at the Team World Cup, which will be decided between September 30 and October 9 in Chengdu.
- If we manage to do that and everyone is in shape and we have a great feeling in the squad, which we usually have, then we are not so easy to face, says Kristian Karlsson.