ITTF World Tour 2018

[Danylo]

Seamaster 2018 ITTF World Tour, Asarel Bulgaria Open

Men's Singles Seeded


1 OVTCHAROV Dimitrij GER

2 XU Xin CHN

3 MA Long CHN

4 HARIMOTO Tomokazu JPN

5 NIWA Koki JPN

6 CHUANG Chih-Yuan TPE

7 MATSUDAIRA Kenta JPN

8 GROTH Jonathan DEN

9 FALCK Mattias SWE

10 SAMSONOV Vladimir BLR

11 UEDA Jin JPN

12 YOSHIMURA Maharu JPN

13 LEBESSON Emmanuel FRA

14 GERASSIMENKO Kirill KAZ

15 LIAO Cheng-Ting TPE

16 GOLOVANOV Stanislav BUL (wildcard)


Why this seeding list? Current World Ranking is:

1 1 FAN Zhendong CHN 17001
2 5 XU Xin CHN 15385
3 2 BOLL Timo GER 15205
4 3 LIN Gaoyuan CHN 15189
5 4 OVTCHAROV Dimitrij GER 14915
6 8 HARIMOTO Tomokazu JPN 13584
7 6 MA Long CHN 1350

[Kamil 28]

Ma Long lost to Liam Pitchford 3:4 !!

Samsonov great victory, he is still so good this legend.

I'm curious about Zheng Peifeng and I am happy to see Ma Te on the tour!


OVTCHAROV Dimitrij 4-1 DRINKHALL Paul

ZHENG Peifeng 4-0 LIAO Cheng-Ting

GERASSIMENKO Kirill 4-3 SKACHKOV Kirill

TOKIC Bojan 0-4 MATSUDAIRA Kenta

CHUANG Chih-Yuan 4-3 JORGIC Darko

LIN Yun-Ju 3-4 SAMSONOV Vladimir

LEBESSON Emmanuel 4-1 KHANIN Aliaksandr

BAEK Hogyun 0-4 HARIMOTO Tomokazu

MA Long 3-4 PITCHFORD Liam

MA Te 4-2 YOSHIMURA Maharu

UEDA Jin 2-4 MORIZONO Masataka

HABESOHN Daniel 4-3 GROTH Jonathan

NIWA Koki 4-1 QIU Dang

IONESCU Ovidiu 1-4 FALCK Mattias

GOLOVANOV Stanislav 0-4 OSHIMA Yuya

WANG Yang 1-4 XU Xin

[Kamil 28]

Round of 16

OVTCHAROV Dimitrij - ZHENG Peifeng

GERASSIMENKO Kirill - MATSUDAIRA Kenta

CHUANG Chih-Yuan - SAMSONOV Vladimir

LEBESSON Emmanuel - HARIMOTO Tomokazu

PITCHFORD Liam - MA Te

MORIZONO Masataka - HABESOHN Daniel

NIWA Koki - FALCK Mattias

OSHIMA Yuya - XU Xin


Fantastic draws! Ovtcharov vs this chinese guy. Chuang vs Samsonov legends duel. European Champion vs japanese wonder child. Can Pitchford vs defence? Who is this swedish guy Mattias Falck - never heard about him before!? Oshima is a big danger for Xu Xin.

I heard that Ma Long will now not be allowed to play the next World Tour event due CNT-rules? Did anybody hear about these rules? What did they decide?

[1600i]

Zitat von Kamil 28

[B] Who is this swedish guy Mattias Falck - never heard about him before!

Matttias Falck was formally known as Mattias Karlsson. He married and changed his name.

[Danylo]

Czech Open 2018

Qualification

Burov: Gacina 4:3, Allegro 4:3,T. Monteiro 4:3

T. Monteiro: Cho Eonrae 4:2, Kojic 4:3

Allegro: Hachard 4:3

Kojic: Konecny 4:0


Skachkov: Xu Haidong 4:3, Xu Chenhao 4:2, Bobocica 4:1

Bobocica: Ismailov 4:1, Zatowka 4:2

Ismailov: Obeslo 4:1

Xu Chenhao: Szudi 4:0


Park Ganghyeon: Ionescu 4:1, Szocs 4:3, Khanin 4:1

Ionescu: Shetty 4:2, Zhmudenko 4:1

Shetty: Kenjaev 4:2

Szocs: Paikov 4:2


Pucar: Jin Takuya 4:1, Pryshchepa 4:3, Yuki Matsuyama 4:2

Jin Takuya: Madrid 4:1, Yuya Oshima 4:3

Pryshchepa: Kim Daewoo 4:0

Madrid: Kaluzny 4:3


Walther: Reitspies 4:0, Tromer 4:0, Pletea 4:1

Reitspies: Akkuzu 4:2, Levenko 4:1

Tromer: Peto 4:3

Akkuzu: Engemann 4:0


Mizuki Oikawa: Pistej 4:1, Ecseki 4:1, Lupulesku 4:0

Pistej: Yukiya Uda 4:1, Andersson 4:0

Ecseki: Rech Daldosso 4:2

Yukiya Uda: Tom Jarvis 4:3


Darko Jorgic: A. Robinot 4:0, Vlasov 4:0, Poh Shao Feng Ethan 4:0

A. Robinot: Lai Chi-Chien 4:2, Prokopcov 4:2

Vlasov: Maze 4:1

Lai Chi-Chien: Lambiet 4:3, Brodd 4:3


Pitchford: Kim Minhyeok 4:0, Lakatos 4:1, Qiu Dang 4:2

Kim Minhyeok: Yusuke Sadamatsu 4:3, Lorentz 4:2, Isakov 4:1

Yusuke Sadamatsu: Kallberg 4:2, McBeath 4:3

Lakatos: Grininger 4:3


Dyjas: Gardos 4:2, Lind 4:3, Sidorenko 4:2

Gardos: Crisan 4:1, Ort 4:2

Crisan: Merzlikin 4:2

Lind: Landrieu 4:1


Zhang Yudong: Kohei Sambe 4:1, Yuto Kizujuri 4:0, Drinkhall 4:2, Baek Hogyun 4:3

Kohei Sambe: Golovanov 4:1, Shibaev 4:0

Golovanov: Salifou 4:2

Yuto Kizukuri: Soderlund 4:1


Nuytinck: Kazuhiro Yoshimura 4:2, Koyo Kanamitsu 4:3, Ivonin 4:2

Kazuhiro Yoshimura: Kozul 4:1, Angles 4:3

Koyo Kanamitsu: Masaki Takami 4:3

Kozul: Alexander Chen 4:2


Zheng Peifeng: Fegerl 4:0, Geraldo 4:0, Ranefur 4:0, Bajger 4:3

Fegerl: Tregler 4:0, Xia Yizheng 4:0

Geraldo: Mladenovic 4:2

Tregler: Kleprlik 4:2


Habesohn: Platonov 4:0, Walker 4:2, Mutygullin 4:3

Platonov: Hippler 4:0, Omotayo 4:1

Walker: Rasmussen 4:0

Hippler: Wang Yang 4:1, Manole 4:0


Badowski: Gerell 4:2, Olivares 4:0, Tokic 4:3

Gerell: Sipos 4:1, Bouloussa 4:1

Sipos: Majoros 4:1, Brat 4:2

Olivares: Yefimov 4:1


Yuki Hirano: Jancarik 4:0, Lundquist 4:1, Jouti 4:1, Gavlas 4:0

Jancarik: Persson 4:2, Moregard 4:3

Persson: Karakasevic 4:3

Lundquist: Devos 4:1, Martinko 4:3


Taku Takakiwa: Tsuboi 4:3, Liventsov 4:1, Stoyanov 4:2, Ma Te 4:3

Tsuboi: Aguirre 4:1, Seyfried 4:2

Aguirre: Medjugorac 4:2

Liventsov: Zibrat 4:2

[Danylo]

Main Draw - Round of 32

OVTCHAROV Dimitrij - TAKAKIWA Taku

PARK Ganghyeon - KOU Lei

DUDA Benedikt - ZHANG Yudong

PITCHFORD Liam - KARLSSON Kristian

FILUS Ruwen - WALTHER Ricardo

NUYTINCK Cedric - STEGER Bastian

SIRUCEK Pavel - ZHENG Peifeng

OIKAWA Mizuki - NIWA Koki

FREITAS Marcos - HIRANO Yuki

BUROV Viacheslav - YOSHIMURA Maharu

GERASSIMENKO Kirill - SKACHKOV Kirill

HABESOHN Daniel - FALCK Mattias

GROTH Jonathan - DYJAS Jakub

PUCAR Tomislav - FRANZISKA Patrick

SAMSONOV Vladimir - BADOWSKI Marek

JORGIC Darko - HARIMOTO Tomokazu

[Townsman]

Good tournament for our russia players.

Viacheslav Buro 4:1 vs Alexander Valuch, 4:3 vs Andrej Gacina, 4:3 vs Martin Allegro, 4:3 vs Thiago Monteiro, 1:4 vs Maharu Yoshimura.

Sadi Ismailov 4:1 vs Michal Obeslo, 1:4 vs Mihai Bobocica.

Kirill Skachkov 4:3 vs Xu Haidong (CHN!), 4:2 vs Xu Chenhao (CHN!), 4:1 vs Mihai Bobocica, 3_4 vs Kirill Gerassimenko.

Mikhail Paikov 2:4 vs Hunor Szocs.

Grigory Vlasov 4:1 vs Michael Maze, 0:4 vs Darko Jorgic.

Ilya Isakov 1:4 vs Kim Minhyeok.

Taras Merzlikin 4:1 vs Eric Glod, 2:4 vs Adrian Crisan.

Vladimir Sidorenko 4:3 vs Stanislav Kucera, 2:4 vs Jakub Dyjas.

Alexander Shibaev 0:4 vs Kohei Sambe.

Denis Ivonin 2:4 vs Cedric Nuytinck.

Vildan Gadiev 2:4 vs Xia Yizheng.

Ramil Mutygullin 4:3 vs Jordy Piccolin, 3:4 vs Daniel Habesohn.

Alexey Liventsov 4:2 vs Jan Zibrat, 1:4 vs Taku Takakiwa.

[Townsman]

I have the feeling, that the chinese players are always very nervous if they start in a tournament.

Xu Chenhao won his first match in the qualification vs Adam Szudi, but lost then his 2nd qualification match 2:4 vs Kirill Skachkov.

Xu Haidon won his first match in the qualification vs Alin Spelbus, but lost then his 2nd qualification match 3:4 vs Kirill Skachkov.

Zhang Yudong failed nearly in the first qualification match vs Baek Hogyun, but won 4:3. After that he got more stability and won 4:2 vs Paul Drinkhall, 4:0 vs Yuto Kizukuri and 4:1 vs Kohei Sambe. In the main draw he won the first round 4:3 vs Benedikt Duda. Next match will be vs Liam Pitchford.

Zheng Peifeng failed also nearly in the first qualification match vs Ondrej Bajger, but won 4:3. After that also he got more stability and won 4:0 vs Elias Ranefur, 4:0 vs Joao Geraldo and 4:0 vs Stefan Fegerl. In the main draw he won the first round 4:2 vs Pavel Sirucek. Next match will be vs Mizuki Oikawa.

Xia Yizheng had also problems in the first qualification round, won 4:2 vs Vildan Gadiev and lost then 0:4 vs Stefan Fegerl.

Ma Te played so strong in Bulgaria, but lost in the first qualification round in the Czech Republic 3:4 vs Taku Takakiwa.

As you can see, the chinese players are many times very nervous in their first match in the tournament and have problems to survice this first match. After that they get their stability. Strange.... so much pressure in China!? Maybe they know that they are out for some time or forever from the national team, if they fail.

[Jacques]

Liam Pitchford (GV Hennebont TT, France PRO A) is again strong.

4:1 Kristian Karlsson SWE, 4:3 Zhang Yudong CHN and I think it will be not easy for Dimitrij Ovtcharov (match is now!).

Ovtcharov had no problems with Park Ganghyeon KOR (4:1).

Bastian Steger GER - Ricardo Walther GER was very close (4:3).

Zheng Peifeng CHN - Mizuki Oikawa JPN 4:3

Marcos Freitas POR - Maharu Yoshimura JPN 4:0

Kirill Gerassimenko KAZ - Daniel Habesohn AUT 1:4

Jonathan Groth DEN - Patrick Franziska GER 2:4

Vladimir Samsonov BLR - Tomokazu Harimoto JPN 3:4


Vladimir Samsonov is the biggest legend of Europe now (Boll No. 2) and together with Jan-Ove Waldner the biggest legend of all time.

European all time legends
1 Jan-Ove Waldner
2 Vladimir Samsonov
3 Jorgen Persson
4 Jean-Philippe Gatien
5 Timo Boll

6 Werner Schlager
7 Jean-Michel Saive
8 Jorg Rosskopf
9 Dimitrij Ovtcharov
10 ... (Petr Korbel, Peter Karlsson, Patrick Chila, Kalinikos Kreanga, Zoran Primorac, Christophe Legoût, Damien Éloi, Andrzej Grubba, Mikael Appelgren, Erik Lindh, Michael Maze, Emmanuel Lebesson, ...)

I did not put the top players from another era of table tennis in my ranking, like Victor Barna, Johnny Leach or Richard Bergmann. Also not the era Stellan Bengtsson, Istvan Jonyer, Kjell Johansson, Jacques Secrétin, Hans Alser, Milan Orlowski or Dragutin Surbek. I started in the middle of the 1980s.

[Kamil 28]

Quarterfinals

OVTCHAROV Dimitrij GER 2-4 PITCHFORD Liam ENG

STEGER Bastian GER 2-4 ZHENG Peifeng CHN

FREITAS Marcos POR 4-1 HABESOHN Daniel AUT

FRANZISKA Patrick GER 2-4 HARIMOTO Tomokazu JPN


Semifinals

PITCHFORD Liam ENG 1-4 ZHENG Peifeng CHN

FREITAS Marcos POR 4-3 HARIMOTO Tomokazu JPN


Finals - Gold Medal Match

ZHENG Peifeng CHN 4-2 FREITAS Marcos POR