As expected, the top 3 seeds progressed to the later stages of the Qatar Open World Tour on the 9th February 2012. Seeds including Wang Hao, Xu Xin and Ma Lin all respectively eased into the last 16 draw. However, number 4 seed Joo Se Hyuk and other table tennis players did not progress so easily.
Joo Se Hyuk in photo. Photo by: Reuters
Joo Se Hyuk was taken to he wire in the last 32 round of the Qatar Open today as in form Kirill Skachkov raced into a 3-1 lead over the Worlds best chopper. However, Joo somehow found inspiration and form to force Kirill to produce repeated unforced errors. Joo Se Hyuk defeated Kirill Skachkov by 4 games to 3 with scores 9-11, 11-2, 10-12, 6-11, 11-7, 11-2, 11-4. Kirill is in fine form lately having reached the final of last weeks European Top 12!
Another spectacular match that took place was between Slovenia's Bojan Tokic vs Germany's Patrick Franziska. The match went to 7 sets with Franziska just taking the last set in an epic battle (9-11, 6-11, 14-12, 11-8, 11-5, 3-11, 12-10). Patrick progresses to the last 16 to face Chaung Chih-Yuan. Could we see a upset there?
A huge upset repeated itself for the Korean team as Oh Sang Eun lost to Hong Kong's Jiang Tianyi. Oh took a fantastic 2-0 lead however Jiang stepped up his game to win the next 4 in a row with scores 15-13, 11-1, 11-5 and 15-13.
Elsewhere in the competition Koki Niwa had an incredible close encounter with Leung Chu Yan. Sets flew back and fourth to each player with Japan's Koki just taking to final seventh set 12-10.
Stay tuned and do not miss this spectacular championships as the Men's Singles round of 16 begins tomorrow on the 10/02/2012 at 10 GMT. You can watch the Slovenian Open World Tour in our ITTF Live Streaming with chat here
TableTennisDaily
Joo Se Hyuk in photo. Photo by: Reuters
Joo Se Hyuk was taken to he wire in the last 32 round of the Qatar Open today as in form Kirill Skachkov raced into a 3-1 lead over the Worlds best chopper. However, Joo somehow found inspiration and form to force Kirill to produce repeated unforced errors. Joo Se Hyuk defeated Kirill Skachkov by 4 games to 3 with scores 9-11, 11-2, 10-12, 6-11, 11-7, 11-2, 11-4. Kirill is in fine form lately having reached the final of last weeks European Top 12!
Another spectacular match that took place was between Slovenia's Bojan Tokic vs Germany's Patrick Franziska. The match went to 7 sets with Franziska just taking the last set in an epic battle (9-11, 6-11, 14-12, 11-8, 11-5, 3-11, 12-10). Patrick progresses to the last 16 to face Chaung Chih-Yuan. Could we see a upset there?
A huge upset repeated itself for the Korean team as Oh Sang Eun lost to Hong Kong's Jiang Tianyi. Oh took a fantastic 2-0 lead however Jiang stepped up his game to win the next 4 in a row with scores 15-13, 11-1, 11-5 and 15-13.
Elsewhere in the competition Koki Niwa had an incredible close encounter with Leung Chu Yan. Sets flew back and fourth to each player with Japan's Koki just taking to final seventh set 12-10.
Stay tuned and do not miss this spectacular championships as the Men's Singles round of 16 begins tomorrow on the 10/02/2012 at 10 GMT. You can watch the Slovenian Open World Tour in our ITTF Live Streaming with chat here
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