Who do you think will win the Australian Open 2017?

  • Dimitrij Ovtcharov

    Votes: 2 4.7%
  • Xu Xin

    Votes: 22 51.2%
  • Lee Sangsu

    Votes: 1 2.3%
  • Koki Niwa

    Votes: 1 2.3%
  • Tomokazu Harimoto

    Votes: 9 20.9%
  • Hugo Calderano

    Votes: 4 9.3%
  • Simon Gauzy

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Jun Mizutani

    Votes: 3 7.0%
  • Kenta Matsudaira

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other (Post Below)

    Votes: 1 2.3%

  • Total voters
    43
says Waldner Masterclass out now! 🏓
says Waldner Masterclass out now! 🏓
Well-Known Member
Administrator
Oct 2010
4,144
6,577
12,998
--- Watch the Australian Open LIVE HERE ---

The ITTF World Tour circuit now moves onto the Australian Open which is a platinum event that will take place from the 24th to 29th July 2018.


Main Draw

Knock Out Rounds


Men's Singles Seeds

Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov, has entered the Australian Open as the number 1 seed!

dimitrijovtcharovkorea2018.jpg

Dimitrij Ovtcharov enters the Australian Open as the no.1 seed - Photo by: ITTF Flickr

01) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
02) Xu Xin
03) Lee Sangsu
04) Koki Niwa
05) Tomokazu Harimoto
06) Hugo Calderano
07) Simon Gauzy
08) Jun Mizutani
09) Kenta Matsudaira
10) Chuang Chih Yuan
11) Quadri Aruna
12) Lim Jonghoon
13) Jin Ueda
14) Patrick Franziska
15) Masaki Yoshida
16) David Powell


Women's Singles Seeds

Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa enters the Australian Open as the number 1 seed.

kasumiishikawa2018ausopen.jpg

Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa enters the Australian Open as the #1 seed - Photo by: ITTF Flickr

01) Kasumi Ishikawa
02) Liu Shiwen
03) Mima Ito
04) Miu Hirano
05) Cheng I-Ching
06) Feng Tianwei
07) Ding Ning
08) Hitomi Sato
09) Suh Hyowon
10) Hina Hayata
11) Yuting Gu
12) Miyu Kato
13) Saki Shibata
14) Chen Szu-Yu
15) Jeon Jihee
16) Lay Jian Fang


For full player entries click here.

A fantastic event to follow, be sure to get involved in the TTD topic and get involved with the discussions.

We can use this thread as a means to display all the latest results, videos and news from this spectacular World Tour event! What are your predictions from each event.
 
This user has no status.
This user has no status.
Member
May 2014
97
63
169
In terms of the seedings, think this might be standard. Looking back at the Qatar Open, Li Ping was seeded 16 as well. Looks like it’s some sort of hosts benefit. Probably ensures some sort of home interest for longer in the competition.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
 
This user has no status.
In terms of the seedings, think this might be standard. Looking back at the Qatar Open, Li Ping was seeded 16 as well. Looks like it’s some sort of hosts benefit. Probably ensures some sort of home interest for longer in the competition.

What...? That seems unfair... When you already have the home field advantage and the home crowd behind you, you still need to manipulate the drawing as an incentive?

Just look at the main draw. There are 6 Japanese players in the top 16 seeding. Somehow, 4 of them landed in brackets right next to each other. The 2 Korean players also landed in the same bracket. How does this happen?

Is the bracket placement based on seeding (like 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, 3 vs 14, and so on)? Or is it "random" chance that this happened?
 
This user has no status.
This user has no status.
Active Member
Oct 2011
726
1,310
2,436
Selected results from Day 1 (Tue 24 July 2018):

Men's Singles

Qualification groups:

[2] Jang Woojin 4:1 Cho Daeseong (11:7, 11:8, 11:4, 7:11, 11:6)
Yu Ziyang 4:3 Cho Daeseong (7:11, 9:11, 11:5, 11:5, 11:7, 9:11, 11:7)
Taimu Arinobu, JPN 4:2 Tiago Apolonia [5] (11:8, 11:7, 5:11, 5:11, 11:8, 11:8)
[19] Kazuhiro Yoshimura 4:0 Kenta Tazoe (11:8, 15:13, 11:4, 11:8)


Women's Singles

Qualification groups
:


Li Jiayi 4:1 Fan Siqi (11:13, 12:10, 11:6, 11:7, 11:8)
Marina Matsuzawa 4:3 Miyu Nagasaki [10] (8:11, 10:12, 11:3, 12:10, 10:12, 11:8, 11:7)
Jee Minhyung, AUS 4:2 Shao Jieni, POR (11:3, 1:11, 11:7, 11:9, 5:11, 13:11)
[16] Satsuki Odo 4:2 Miyuu Kihara (11:9, 13:11, 12:10, 6:11, 2:11, 11:3)


 
  • Like
Reactions: Suga D
This user has no status.
I was hoping for Calderano to break out by the way he played in Qatar. It's always
tough to see players kick ass in one tournament but then not follow up on it.
Will Jang Woojin continue to dominate? We'll see.

Taimu Arinobu, JPN 4:2 Tiago Apolonia [5] (11:8, 11:7, 5:11, 5:11, 11:8, 11:8)

No disrespect to Taimu, but I'm still waiting for Tiago's breakthrough ...
 
  • Like
Reactions: akoozab
This user has no status.
This user has no status.
Member
Feb 2012
158
158
408
What...? That seems unfair... When you already have the home field advantage and the home crowd behind you, you still need to manipulate the drawing as an incentive?
This made me laugh out loud. A lot. For a long time.

This is Australia, a country which invests its energy in a form of football played in no other country in the world, where tens of thousands will crowd around ovals every weekend to watch grown men grubbing in the mud to kick a non-round ball. But table tennis? A game dismissed at best and ridiculed at worst. The crowd for the finals will be measured in tens, possibly a couple of hundred, and every single Australian player will have exited the competition days before.

Home field advantage? Home crowd? You're dreaming.

If you look at the entries shown on the ITTF site, you'll see that Aussies are the lowest ranked players in both men and women. The only seeded male player is David Powell (16), and that is a home Association concession. Similarly for Lay Jian Fang in the women's.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Suga D
says Shoo...nothing to see here. - zeio
says Shoo...nothing to see here. - zeio
Well-Known Member
Jan 2018
7,225
9,312
18,290
Read the directives for once, will ya? This has been how it's done for many years.

https://d3mjm6zw6cr45s.cloudfront.net/2017/10/2018_WT_Directives_FINAL.pdf
2.2. Playing System
a. Men’s and Women’s Singles: Knock out - Main Draw of 32.
• Top 16 seeded (or Top 15 plus 1 player from the host association or Top 14 plus 2 players from the host association, provided that the one player is in the Top 50 positions of the WR). In both cases, this applies only if no players from the host association are already included in the Top 16 players by default, according to the latest available ITTF World Ranking, at the date of the final entries deadline.
...
b. Men’s and Women’s Doubles: Knock out - Main Draw of 16.
• Top 8 seeded pairs according to the Doubles’ Ranking (or Top 7 plus 1 pair from the host association, if not already included in the Top 8 doubles by default. A “mixed” pair composed of players from different associations can be seeded by the request of the host association, provided that one of the two players is from the host association).
 
Top