Bulgaria Open 2017

TableTennisDaily · Aug 17, 2017

NOW LIVE: Final - Live Streaming here: https://tv.ittf.com/livestream/bulgaria-open-table-1/897501

The Bulgaria Open has commenced!

Dimitrij Ovtcharov enters as the number 1 seed:

Photo via: ITTF Flickr

List of Top 10 Seeds:

01) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
02) Kenta Matsudaira
03) Quadri Aruna
04) Maharu Yoshimura
05) Jin Ueda
06) Paul Drinkhall
07) Robert Gardos
08) Bojan Tokic
09) Tomas Konecny
10) Quentin RObinot

Full info coming soon...

A fantastic event to follow, be sure to get involved on the TTD discussions and join us in the live chat in the ITTF Live Streaming!

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.

yoass · Aug 17, 2017

This time I'm rooting for Ueda. For variety of life the spice is.

TableTennisDaily · Aug 17, 2017

Men's Singles Draw - Round of 32

Dimitrij Ovtcharov 4-2 Kirill Skackov
Elias Ranefur 4-0 Quentin Robinot
Tomas Konecny 3-4 Yukiya Uda
Mizuki Oikawa 4-2 Bojan Tokic

Paul Drinkhall 0-4 Asuka Machi
Koyo Kanmitsu 4-2 Teodor Alexandrov
Yuto Kizukuri 4-2 Soumyajit Ghosh
Can Akkuzu 3-4 Quadri Aruna

Mahuru Yoshimura 4-0 Enzo Angles
Kenji Matsudaira 4-3 Benedek Olah
Dmitrij Prokopcov 2-4 Taku Takakiwa
Kenta Tazoe 2-4 Robert Gardos

Jin Ueda 4-0 Chou Te Hao
Hung Tzu Hsiang 1-4 Cedric Nuytinck
Harmeet Desai 1-4 Peng Wang Wei
Tomas Tregler 0-4 Kenta Matsudaira

AfroBro · Aug 17, 2017

Just noticed the womens round of 16 for this...crazy! not sure if i've ever seen that before. Still two matches ongoing but nearly a full house for Japan!

JesperStef · Aug 17, 2017

Yes, so far the "Japanese vs foreign players" score in the main draws is remarkable:

Men's singles: 11:0
Women's singles: 16:0 (only Japanese players remaining in the draw!!!)
Men's doubles: 2:0
Women's doubles: 2:0

Suga D · Aug 17, 2017

Looks as if they're dead serious about next olympics.
Pretty impressive.

ridderz65 · Aug 18, 2017

TableTennisDaily said:
Men's Singles Draw - Round of 32

Dimitrij Ovtcharov 4-2 Kirill Skackov
Elias Ranefur 4-0 Quentin Robinot
Tomas Konecny 3-4 Yukiya Uda
Mizuki Oikawa 4-2 Bojan Tokic

Paul Drinkhall 0-4 Asuka Machi
Koyo Kanmitsu 4-2 Teodor Alexandrov
Yuto Kizukuri 4-2 Soumyajit Ghosh
Can Akkuzu 3-4 Quadri Aruna

Mahuru Yoshimura vs Enzo Angles
Kenji Matsudaira vs Benedek Olah
Dmitrij Prokopcov vs Taku Takakiwa
Kenta Tazoe vs Robert Gardos

Jin Ueda vs Chou Te Hao
Hung Tzu Hsiang vs Cedric Nuytinck
Harmeet Desai vs Peng Wang Wei
Tomas Tregler vs Kenta Matsudaira

Strange result for Paul Drinkhall, especially after how well he's been playing.

Takkyu_wa_inochi · Aug 18, 2017

UEDA will win it

Takkyu_wa_inochi · Aug 18, 2017

JesperStef said:
Yes, so far the "Japanese vs foreign players" score in the main draws is remarkable:

Men's singles: 11:0
Women's singles: 16:0 (only Japanese players remaining in the draw!!!)
Men's doubles: 2:0
Women's doubles: 2:0

JAPAN is the best nation after CHINA. the gap is huge between those 2, but the gap is huge after JAPAN as well

yoass · Aug 18, 2017

Takkyu_wa_inochi said:
JAPAN is the best nation after CHINA. the gap is huge between those 2, but the gap is huge after JAPAN as well

Would there still such a gap with ML, FZD and XX out of the equation and ZJK struggling to recover?

Dan · Aug 18, 2017

yoass said:
Would there still such a gap with ML, FZD and XX out of the equation and ZJK struggling to recover?

I have often wondered this question myself, if there were no Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin would China dominate everything. I think the answer is yes they will. Players on the tier 2 squad in the China National Team will get more opportunities to play internationally and gain the experience they need to compete on this level. Players like Fang Bo and others would compete more often and improve. You can see unknown players in the China Super League take out the top guys relatively often

langel · Aug 18, 2017

Wang Chuqin is very amazing and very very young.

Suga D · Aug 18, 2017

yoass said:
Would there still such a gap with ML, FZD and XX out of the equation and ZJK struggling to recover?

I don't know. I must admit even strong foreign players like Boll or Ovtcharov loose to internationally unknown players in CTTSL a lot, but in a tournament on foreign soil it might be a whole different story and i'm not sure if everyone knows how to handle the pressure. There have been quite some surprises in the past. Guys like Yan An come to my mind.

langel · Aug 18, 2017

I must admit even foreign players in CTTSL loose to internationally unknown players a lot

With a great sorrow I must admit it has nothing to do with bulgarian players

TableTennisDaily · Aug 18, 2017

Men's Singles Draw - Round of 16 results

Dimitrij Ovtcharov 4-2 Elias Ranefur
Yukiya Uda 0-4 Mizuki Oikawa

Asuka Machi 4-1 Koyo Kanmitsu
Yuto Kizukuri 3-4 Quadri Aruna

Mahuru Yoshimura 2-2 Kenji Matsudaira
Taku Takakiwa 4-1 Kenta Tazoe

Jin Ueda 4-1 Cedric Nuytinck
Peng Wang Weil 1-4 Kenta Matsudaira

rainneverever · Aug 18, 2017

Dan said:
I have often wondered this question myself, if there were no Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin would China dominate everything. I think the answer is yes they will. Players on the tier 2 squad in the China National Team will get more opportunities to play internationally and gain the experience they need to compete on this level. Players like Fang Bo and others would compete more often and improve. You can see unknown players in the China Super League take out the top guys relatively often

I don't quite agree. Tier 1 CNT players (4-5, the lineup for OG and WTTC team events) do not steal away the opportunities of Tier 2 players. They just perform better in trials, natioanl tournaments and CTTSL. If you look at the medalists of China National Games and National Championships, almost all are Tier 1 players. CTTSL MVPs are all Tier 1 players.
An extreme example is FZD. Much younger than FB and YA, he surpassed them very quickly.

Takkyu_wa_inochi · Aug 18, 2017

It is not the Bulgarian open
It's the decentralised Japanese national championship

v100ev · Aug 18, 2017

Elias Ranefur has some wicked serves! Ovtcharov made so many errors receiving those!
And Aruna's match was crazy.
Watching this live in the stadium is just great. I'll take some pictures tomorrow.. I hope

yoass · Aug 19, 2017

TableTennisDaily said:
Mahuru Yoshimura 2-2 Kenji Matsudaira

We have draws now?

ajtatosmano2 · Aug 19, 2017

That's gonna be interesting. Jin Ueda is very good, but Kenta is good too. I would say 50-50%.
In the Aruna vs Asuka match I would bet on the japanese, but who knows?
Ovcharov probably will win this tournament, but I think Oikawa has the second best chance against him after Jin. I still don't think there will be an upset.
My prediction is that we will see a final between Kenta and Ovcharov, where Ovcharov wins 4-2.

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