Spanish Open 2013 - ITTF World Tour

TableTennisDaily · Jan 12, 2013

2013 ITTF World Tour, Spanish Open, Euro Africa Challenge Series,17 Jan 2013 - 20 Jan 2013, Almeria, ESP

The first World Tour of the year is taking place next week, staged from Thursday 17th to Sunday 20th January 2013! After the first World Tour the Austrian Open will commence the following week including all the best Chinese National Team players! This is the first tournament of the ITTF 2013 World Tour Series, which over the 2013 year combines a grand total of over $2,500,000 prize money!
Total number of entries so far is: 127

Host nation's He Zhiwen and Shen Yanfei are the respective Men and Women Singles top seeds at the Spanish Open 2013, the 1st World Tour event of the year!

Main Draw

Men's Singles Groups
Men's Singles Main Draw

Women's Singles Groups
Women's Singles Main Draw

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

Spain's He Zhiwen, the World #66 qualifies into the Spanish Open as the #1 seed.

Men's Singles Seeds

Quentin Robinot enters the tournament as the #12 seed - Photo by: Alex Lomaev

1 He Zhiwen
2 Jean-Michel Saive
3 Carlos Machado
4 Cazuo Matsumoto
5 Thiago Monteriro
6 Christophe Legout
7 Gustavo Tsuboi
8 Omar Assar
9 Chun Ting Wong
10 Abdel-Kader Salifou
11 Romain Lorentz
12 Quentin Robinot
13 Marc Duran
14 Alfredo Carneros
15 Jesus Cantero
16 Andre Silva

For full Men's entries click here

Women Singles Seeds

Mie Skov enters the tournament as the #7 seed - Photo by: Feng Li/Getty Images Europe

1 Yanfei Shen
2 Huajun Jiang
3 Matilda Ekholm
4 Ho Ching Lee
5 Sara Ramirez
6 Wing Nam NG
7 Mie Skov
8 Dana Cechova
9 Yana Noskova
10 Galia Dvorak
11 Fang Zhu
12 Maria Xiao
13 Katerina Penkavova
14 Caroline Kumahara
15 Kathrin Muhlbach
16 Nina Mittelham

For full Women's entries click here

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

This tournament will be very interesting, how will the top seeds perform with the likes of veterans He Zhiwen and jean Michel Saive in place? Could the young guns of Europe including Quentin Robinot and Abdel-Kade Salifou pose a thread?

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?

Elegant_Player · Jan 12, 2013

Wow , Hen Zhi Wen , he is known in spain as "JUANITO" , he played in my club . He is a Great player and a great person , he was always friendly with the player in the low categories .
Usually gave us presents and one day he gave me the shirt when he play with Waldner inthis video. I have this shirt.

Go Juanito!

Dan · Jan 12, 2013

Wow thats an awesome story! He seems like a real nice guy! Did you ever play against him? Must be so difficult to play against him, looks so awkward. Upload a picture to us of the shirt

Do you wear it, or is it framed

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UpSideDownCarl · Jan 12, 2013

He Zhi Wen's serves are amazing.

Elegant_Player · Jan 13, 2013

Yes i play with he occasionally , his serve is fantastic very fast and misleading , you need to guess where the ball go (righ or left) when yoy see correct side is very late...
He is beloved here in spain , in this club played greats players (Primorac, Chen Qui ...) but Hen Zhi Wen is the favourite of spanish fans of tennis table.He was always very attentive with us. Is incredible tha a player with more than 50 years old remain in the mundial elite.
When i saw he play(about 12 years ago) , he used a rubber Globe 889 but he explained me that he getting the sponge appart ang glue with the top sheet whith heat.

Here are yoru photos , you not believe me ?

Dan · Jan 13, 2013

Elegant_Player said:
Yes i play with he occasionally , his serve is fantastic very fast and misleading , you need to guess where the ball go (righ or left) when yoy see correct side is very late...
He is beloved here in spain , in this club played greats players (Primorac, Chen Qui ...) but Hen Zhi Wen is the favourite of spanish fans of tennis table.He was always very attentive with us. Is incredible tha a player with more than 50 years old remain in the mundial elite.
When i saw he play(about 12 years ago) , he used a rubber Globe 889 but he explained me that he getting the sponge appart ang glue with the top sheet whith heat.

Here are yoru photos , you not believe me ?

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Wow thats incredible I would love to play him! I can imagine his serves are similar to a lady who got to the final of the Sydney Olympics in 2000, 'Sun Jin'. She was left handed and when I practiced against her, when she served it literally went either corner without me having any idea before hand

Just had to react quickly.

I watched He Zhi play Wang Liqin at the English Open, he gave him huge problems was amazing! And yes at his age its remarkable keeping in the top 100 of the world!

Hehe course I believed you

Just wanted to have a look at it

Michal_Z · Jan 13, 2013

So for me its Christophe Legout for men singles..
And Sara Ramirez for women singles

MaLinAkAKilly · Jan 16, 2013

wong chung ting and shen yanfei for me

Tommy Lee · Jan 16, 2013

Haha..the guy I want to watch his matches is in the draw, Jesús Cantero, an European penholder..

Elegant_Player · Jan 16, 2013

Tommy Lee said:
Haha..the guy I want to watch his matches is in the draw, Jesús Cantero, an European penholder..

Yes he is a big player , his tainer was a great chinese player

Kevzar · Jan 17, 2013

Jon Persson, is that like, Jorgen's kid?

Dan · Jan 17, 2013

Kevzar said:
Jon Persson, is that like, Jorgen's kid?

Haha I believe its not.. However Jon Persson has a brother I think

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ttunreal · Jan 18, 2013

I just watched Jesús Cantero, and his form his magnificent, exactly like the Chinese players back in the day when TPB was in use (Now it's RPB like Wang Hao and Xu Xin). Great technique and his movement is pretty fast. He's just gotta be more consistent though!

Here's the video I watched of him:

YosuaYosan · Jan 18, 2013

He Zhi Wen should win this just for being awesome

Steven · Jan 18, 2013

Men's Singles first round had some unexpected results, 7 out of 16 matches were upsets:

Jesus Cantero - Khalid Assar 2-4
Enzo Angles - Gustavo Tsuboi 4-3
Omar Assar - Jon Persson 3-4
Thomas Le Breton - Alfredo Carneros 4-2
Romain Lorentz - Hampus Soderlund 2-4
Hampus Nordberg - Thiago Monteiro 4-3
Alexandre Robinot - Jean-Michel Saive 4-2

TTLondon2012 · Jan 18, 2013

Wong Chun Ting vs Harald Andersson (Spanish Open 2013) Round 1

H4ks3lR · Jan 19, 2013

YosuaYosan · Jan 19, 2013

WHOA!
There goes our Belgian hero together with almost a third of the vote here..

I want to see if Robinot could make it to the final or even win the title

Still rooting for He Zhi Wen!

Steven · Jan 19, 2013

Haha Alexandre Robinot passes to the quarter finals while Quentin Robinot lost... Only 3 of 8 quarter finalists (Silva, Matsumoto and Legout) were seeded!

Dan · Jan 19, 2013

He Zhi Wen is out! Wow so many upsets in this tournament! I was really expecting He to win this!

Round of 16 update: Marc duran defeats He Zhi Wen 4-2 with scores 11-8, 5-11, 11-5, 10-12, 11-6, 11-8

Spanish Open 2013 - ITTF World Tour

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