Shunsuke Togami extends with Ochsenhausen through 2026-27 season

Shunsuke Togami gave TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen exactly what title teams need most, a proven top-board player in his prime, and the club answered by extending him for one more year through the 2026-27 season. The April 8 move closed the last open roster question for next season and kept the 24-year-old Japanese star in Upper Swabia for a third straight campaign, his fourth year overall with TTF.

That matters because Ochsenhausen is not just keeping a name, it is keeping the most dependable piece from its German championship-winning 2024-25 side. Togami entered the extension ranked 18th in the world, fresh off a breakthrough run that included his first WTT Tour title in Almaty, Kazakhstan, in early September 2025. That win ended a string of two previous WTT finals losses, pushed him back into the world top 20, and came on the heels of his Bundesliga Player of the Month award for September 2025.

Togami’s value has shown up in the places that swing Bundesliga ties. He won both of his singles matches in Ochsenhausen’s 3-1 opening victory over TTC Zugbrücke Grenzau on September 14, 2025, then again looked steady in the club’s 3-2 cup quarterfinal win over Post SV Mühlhausen on November 19, 2025. TTBL also pointed to wins over Kirill Gerassimenko, Bastian Steger and Dimitri Ovtcharov, proof that Ochsenhausen is buying more than a steady middle-board option. It is buying a player who has already shown he can beat names that decide playoff nights.

Kristijan Pejinovic framed the decision around “mutual trust” and called Togami a leader in the group. Togami said he was “very excited” to play for the club again and would try to contribute even more. That leadership piece matters because Ochsenhausen has already moved on from Hugo Calderano and Simon Gauzy, and the next wave of support is younger and less proven, with Iulian Chirita extended earlier in March and Darius Movileanu, a 20-year-old Romanian ranked 113th, and Daniel Berzosa, a 19-year-old Spaniard ranked 164th, set to join for 2026-27.

In practical terms, the extension raises Ochsenhausen’s floor more than its ceiling. The club sat on 20 points from 21 matches and sixth in the TTBL snapshot around the announcement, still in the playoff hunt but not yet secure. Togami does not guarantee another championship, but after Ochsenhausen’s fifth German team title on June 15, 2025, a 3-2 win over Borussia Düsseldorf in Frankfurt, and that record crowd of 5,000 in Timo Boll’s farewell match, he gives the club the kind of top-end stability that keeps any title run alive.