Kuwait Open 2013 - ITTF World Tour

**TableTennisDaily** · 02-04-2013

Kuwait Open 2013 - ITTF World Tour, Super Series 14 Feb 2013 - 18 Feb 2013, Kuwait City, Kuwait

The ITTF World Tour Series now awaits for the upcoming Kuwait Open 2013 which is the third World Tour of the year! The Kuwait Open Super Series is due to take place on Wednesday 14th February in Kuwait City and will conclude on Sunday 18th February, a tournament with a total prize fund of $300,000.

The number 1 seed for the Men's Singles is the newly acclaimed world number 1, Xu Xin! China's new world number 1 will lead the Chinese National team which includes Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Wang Hao, Fang Bo and Yan An. Chuang Chih Yuan is seeded position 5 after Wang Hao, followed by Europe's Dimitrij Ovtcahrov and then Jun Mizutani. Full seeding below.

Total number of entries so far is: 180

Main Draw

Men's Singles
Men's Doubles

Women's Singles
Women's Doubles

Live matches from the Kuwait Open can be watched in our ITTF Live Streaming which has integrated chat!

China's Xu Xin, the World #1 has entered the Kuwait Open as the #1 seed.

Xu Xin the number 1 seed, photo by: AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev

Men's Singles Seeds

Dimitrij Ovtcharov enters the tournament as the #6 seed - Photo by: An Sung Ho

1 Xu Xin
2 Zhang Jike
3 Ma Long
4 Wang Hao
5 Chuang Chih-Yuan
6 Dimitrij Ovtcharov
7 Jun Mizutani
8 Tianyi Jiang
9 Gao Ning
10 Zhan Jian
11 Bastian Steger
12 Seiya Kishikawa
13 Marcos Freitas
14 Kim Minseok
15 TANG Peng
16 Chan Kazuhiro

For full Men's entries click here

Women Singles Seeds

Ding Ning enters the tournament as the #1 seed - Photo by: tabletennisphotos

1 Ding Ning
2 Liu Shiwen
3 Li Xiaoxia
4 Guo Yan
5 Feng Tianwei
6 Ai Fukuhara
7 Shen Yanfei
8 Kasumi Ishikawa
9 Guo Yue
10 Feng Yalan
11 Elizabeta Samara
12 Viktoria Pavlovich
13 Jiang Huajun
14 Yang Haeun
15 Seok Hajung
16 Yu Mengyu

For full Women's entries click here

Men's Doubles

1 Ma Long/Zhang Jike
2 Gao Ning/Li Hu
3 Xu Xin/Yan An
4 Kim Min Seok/Seo Hyundeok
5 Kristian Karlsson/Mattias Karlsson
6 Chan Kazuhiro/Kenji Matsudaira
7 Chen Feng/Zhan Jian ^
8 Al-Hasan-Ibrahem/Al-Hasan-Salem

Women's Doubles

1 Cheng I-Ching/Huang Yi-Hua
2 Ding Ning/Li Xiaoxia
3 Jiang Huajun/Lee Ho Ching
4 Lee Eunhee/Youngsook Park
5 Feng Yalan/Guo Yan
6 Feng Tianwei/Yu Mengyu
7 Guo Yue/Liu Shiwen
8 Hajung Seok/Haeun Yang

Live matches from the Kuwait Open 2013 can be watched in our ITTF Live Streaming which has integrated chat!

This is the third World Tour series of the year! The line up is huge! Who do you think will win? Will Zhang Jike redeem his poor performance in the recent Austria Open?, can the young guns of China including Yan An and Fang Bo pose a threat in the draw? Can China's Ma Long the recent China Super League champion with team Ningbo win the championships? European players Dimitrij Ovtchaov, Bastian Steger, Bojan Tokic, Robert Gardos will all be trying to have their hands on the trophy!

We can use this thread as a means to display all the latest results, videos and news from this spectacular 1st World Tour event of the year! What are your predictions from each event.

**revulucao** · 02-04-2013

woow we will have great maches!! mizutani will participate? good. but the chinese team + chuang + ovtcharov what combination

**dici** · 02-05-2013

as usual, whenever Xu Xin name pop up I will vote for him... hopefully this time I will get it right lol

**Steven** · 02-05-2013

Zhang Jike and Ma Long double partners...? Sounds like a fun experiment by Liu Guoliang.

**YourivanD** · 02-05-2013

Looking forward to it! Go Ma Long!

**Alborz** · 02-06-2013

Zhang Jike will win.Go Zhang Jike beat Ma Long!!

**Bollforte94** · 02-06-2013

Originally Posted by Steven

Zhang Jike and Ma Long double partners...? Sounds like a fun experiment by Liu Guoliang.

played often doubles before Slovenia Open Swedish Open ....
but I hope Ma Long and Xu Xin will play doubles again the unbeatables

**Alborz** · 02-07-2013

looks like ZJK lost so many fans or ML become a greater player.

**XIII** · 02-09-2013

Wow, I'm actually quite surprised after voting for Xu Xin, I thought everyone about now will choose Xu Xin but apparently not.

**Alborz** · 02-09-2013

originally posted by XIII:
Wow, I'm actually quite surprised after voting for Xu Xin, I thought everyone about now will choose Xu Xin but apparently not.

Xu Xin is good player but ZJK and ML are something else.XX beat them 2 or 3 times but they beat XX more than 20 times.
it takes time for a player to find fans.

**Dan** · 02-09-2013

Originally Posted by Steven

Zhang Jike and Ma Long double partners...? Sounds like a fun experiment by Liu Guoliang.

WTTC prep?

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**TTPoster** · 02-10-2013

Singles Winner: Ma Long
Doubles Winners: Xu Xin & Yan An

That is what I think.

**revulucao** · 02-10-2013

you have the bat equal to Zhang Jike and you dont believe him for nothing

**MaXim** · 02-13-2013

Singles : Ma Long
Doubles: Ma Long / Zhang Jike

**Steven** · 02-13-2013

Groups and Main draw are out: http://ittf.com/competitions/competi...98&category=PT
Mizutani can meet Yan An in the round of 16, and Chuang can meet Fang Bo again. Though I wonder if Mizutani will be playing,... at least he hasn't canceled his entry yet.

**pingpingpongpong** · 02-13-2013

Ma Long faces Lee Sangsu in the second round if ever

**Dan** · 02-13-2013

Originally Posted by pingpingpongpong

Ma Long faces Lee Sangsu in the second round if ever

Straight after the Kuwait Open Lee Sang Su (Photo by: An Sung Ho) will answer questions from TableTennisDaily users

Be sure to submit your questions guys http://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/fo...uestion-on-TTD

**Dan** · 02-13-2013

Originally Posted by pingpingpongpong

Ma Long faces Lee Sangsu in the second round if ever

Wow so many impressive matches. Lee Sang Su meets Bojan Tokic if draw goes to plan, I am looking forward to this one

**pingpingpongpong** · 02-14-2013

Originally Posted by Dan

Wow so many impressive matches. Lee Sang Su meets Bojan Tokic if draw goes to plan, I am looking forward to this one

Ma Long can also face Bojan Tokic. Lee Sangsu then Bojan. Wow haha

**Arlen** · 02-14-2013

Xu Xin or Ma Long's probably gonna win this. Although I hope ZJK really does; he really hasn't been performing well recently since the Olympics.

If I'm not mistaken, the top seeds (sixteen I think) only start their matches on the 16th (Sat) ?

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