Panagiotis Gionis ist übrigens für den verletzten Bastian Steger ins Feld nachgerückt.
Bei den Damen sind Tetyana Bilenko und Kristin Silbereisen ins Feld nachgerückt, da die beiden Chinesinnen Li Jiao und Shen Yanfei abgesagt hatten. Dadurch sind zum Glück nur noch vier Chinesinnen dabei (Hu Melek, Liu Jia, Li Jie und Li Qian).
Preisgeld gibt es insgesamt 50.000 Euro, bei den Damen 25.000 Euro und bei den Herren 25.000 Euro.
Preisgeldverteilung:
Winner € 5000
Runner up € 3000
3rd place € 2250
4th place € 1750
Losing round of 8 (QF) € 1250
Losing round of 16 (or round 1) € 1000
Location:
AZUR ARENA
258-328 Rue Henri LAUGIER
06600 ANTIBES
Spielsystem:
Vielleicht mag ja jemand übersetzen:
Zitat:
The tournament shall consist of 2 stages. Round-robin group matches in the first stage, followed by a progressive knockout draw to decide the first 8 positions.
Group stage will be played best of 5 games. From quarterfinals on all matches and all position matches will be played best of 7 games.
Losers of the quarterfinals will play for positions 5-8, respectively for positions 5-6 and for positions 7-8.
Losers of the semi-finals shall play each other for 3rd place and 4th place.
Positions 9-12 will not be played and players finishing 3rd in each group will have the same final position (9th – 12th place).
Positions 13-16 will not be played and players finishing 4th in each group will have the same final position (13th – 16th place).
First 3 players in both events will be qualified for 2017 ITTF World Cups with limit of 2 players per association.
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Setzung:
Die Setzung findet am 2. Februar um 18:00 Uhr statt. An dieser Setzungszeremonie müssen alle Spieler teilnehmen.
Gesetzt wird so:
Zitat:
In the first stage all 16 players shall be divided in 4 equal groups of 4 players, with all the members of a group playing each other.
Players seeded 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th shall head each group A, B, C and D respectively.
Players seeded 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th shall be drawn randomly into the second position of each group.
Players seeded 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th shall be drawn randomly into the third position in each group.
Players seeded 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th shall be drawn randomly into the fourth and last position in each group.
If there are 2 or more players from the same Association, they will be drawn into separate groups.
The top 2 finishers from each group shall advance to the knockout quarter-final stage of the competition.
The winner of Group A shall be seeded first (position 1 in the draw).
The winner of Group B shall be seeded second (position 8 in the draw).
The winners of Groups C and D shall be drawn into positions 4 and 5 of the draw.
The second place finishers of each group shall be drawn randomly into positions 2, 3, 6 and 7 of the draw; there will be separation of group winners and second place finishers from the same group so they cannot meet before closing rounds.
There shall be no separation by Association.
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