The Main Draw for the 2013 Kuwait Open ITTF World Tour has been released with an incredible line up of first round matches! The seeded trio from China made up of Ma long, Zhang Jike and Xu Xu Xin will respectively face Wu Zhikang of Singapore, Wong Chun Ting of Hong Kong and Roy Soumyadeep of India.

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Xu Xin = Photo by: Stiga

With the qualification rounds now over, top seeds will now take on the players in the main draw. Seeded no.4 from china Wang Hao will take on Egypt's El-Sayed Lashin in the first round. Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov will participated in the main draw having to play Japan's Masataka Morizono. Japan's weapon for the upcoming 2013 World Table Tennis Championships Jun Mizutani will encounter Sweden's Mattias Karlsson. China's young guns
Yan An and Fang Bo will face Russia's Grigory Vlasov and Fedor Kuzmin.

First Round Schedule *Time in GMT* 16 February 2013

Watch the matches in the ITTF Live Streaming here

08:45 Jung Youngsik vs Romain Lorentz
08:45 Kim Minseok vs Kristian Karlsson
09:30 Simon Gauzy vs Al-Hasan Ibrahem
09:30 Masataka Morizono vs Dimitrij Ovtcharov
10:15 Stefan Fegerl vs Bojan Tokic
10:15 Wang Hao vs Lashin El-Sayed
11-00 Jeong Sangeun vs Gustavo Tsuboi
11:00 Fedor Kuzmin vs Fang Bo
11:45 Sharath Kamal Achanta vs Hampus Soderlund
11:45 Gao Ning vs Cazuo Matsumoto
12:30 Emmanuel Lebesson vs Daniel Habesohn

Check out the shot of the tournament so far by Quentin Robinot in the video below!


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