Who could be in Europe the next Timo Boll?

Are there any high-class young talents?

At the latest WTT Youth event, these players had been the best:

Kay STUMPER GER

Darius MOVILEANU ROU

Eduard IONESCU ROU

Andrei Teodor ISTRATE ROU

One player from Germany and three players from Romania. Maybe these two nations are leading in Europe together with Poland, Russia and Sweden.

Let‘s have a look on the ITTF youth world ranking:

U19 BOY‘S SINGLES WORLD RANKING

k Name Assoc Points
1 HARIMOTO Tomokazu JPN 19485
2 KULCZYCKI Samuel POL 5493
3 MOREGARD Truls SWE 5265
4 FENG Yi-Hsin TPE 5107
5 XIANG Peng CHN 5055
6 SHINOZUKA Hiroto JPN 4869
7 PANG Yew En Koen SGP 4466
8 KUMAR Nikhil USA 4334
9 CHO Daeseong KOR 4290
10 ZENG Beixun CHN 4091
11 KUBIK Maciej POL 4082
12 ANDRAS Csaba HUN 3953
13 BAN Ivor CRO 3914
14 KOSOLOSKY Olav BEL 3842
15 RASSENFOSSE Adrien BEL 3742
16 SIDORENKO Vladimir RUS 3532
17 STUMPER Kay GER 3492
18 GREBNEV Maksim RUS 3286
19 LI Hsin-Yu TPE 3226
20 HUANG Yan-Cheng TPE 3201
21 DELINCAK Filip SVK 3012
22 MARTINKO Tomas CZE 2981
23 KLAJBER Adam SVK 2959
24 PARK Gyeongtae KOR 2942
25 CHEN Yuanyu CHN 2880

Maybe somebody can help me out with the year of birth, because this will give a different view on the situation, which players are 2-3 years younger. Or do they really have all the same age?