German Open 2017

Bence Majoros incredible run so far gets rewarded with a match against Ovtcharov

Friday Nov 10 ia a day of days for table tennis!
Fan v Fanziska 3:30 t1
Zhou v Samsonov 3:30 t2
Matsudaira v Drinkhall 3:30 t3
Jeong v Niwa 3:30 t4
Zhang v Apolonia 4:20 t2
Morizono v Wong 4:20 t3
Yan v Kizukuri 4:20 t4
Majoros v Ovtcharov 4:20 t1
Boll v Karlsson 7:30 t1
Ueda v Gauzy 7:30 t3
Chuang v Filus 7:30 t2
Yoshimura v Lin 7:30 t4
Mizutani v Steger 8:20 t1
Dyjas v Lee 8:20 t3
Harimoto v Freitas 8:20 t4
Oshima v Xu 8:20 t2

Results from Day 3 (9 November 2017):

Men's Singles:
Preliminary Round 1:
Jon Persson (#109) 1:4 Liam Pitchford (#62)
Robert Gardos (#57) 4:0 Tomas Konecny (#100)
Patrick Franziska (#55) 4:0 Soumyajit Ghosh (#95)
Lim Jonghoon (#52) 4:0 Mizuki Oikawa (#91)
Jakub Dyjas (#59) 4:2 Ho Kwan Kit (#64)
Jang Woojin (#58) 0:4 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (#102)
Li Ping (#56) 4:0 Alvaro Robles (#70)
Masataka Morizono (#53) 4:2 Liao Cheng-Ting (#74)
Zhou Yu (#47) 4:0 Daniel Habesohn (#81)
Joao Monteiro (#47) 4:3 Zhou Kai (13:11, 3:11, 8:11, 11:5, 11:7, 4:11, 13:11)
Andrej Gacina (#49) 1:4 Yu Ziyang
Can Akkuzu (#123) 1:4 Yuto Kizukuri (#90)
Nandor Ecseki (#254) 0:4 Hunor Szocs (#83)
Benedikt Duda (#51) 4:1 Adrian Crisan (#91)

Preliminary Round 2:
Marcos Freitas (#19) 4:0 Liam Pitchford (#62) (11:7, 11:7, 11:9, 11:4)
Jakub Dyjas (#59) 4:1 Hugo Calderano (#20) (14:16, 11:6, 11:6, 11:6, 11:8)
Kristian Karlsson (#23) 4:0 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (#102) (11:6, 11:6, 11:2, 11:7)
Robert Gardos (#57) 2:4 Ruwen Filus (#24) (11:7, 7:11, 7:11, 11:8, 5:11, 9:11)
Yuya Oshima (#24) 4:2 Li Ping (#56) (10:12, 12:10, 5:11, 11:5, 11:7, 11:8)
Patrick Franziska (#55) 4:0 Jeoung Youngsik (#27) (11:7, 11:9, 11:8, 14:12)
Lim Jonghoon (#52) 2:4 Bastian Steger (#29) (5:11, 3:11, 7:11, 11:7, 11:8, 5:11)
Romain Lorentz 2:4 Masataka Morizono (#53) (4:11, 2:11, 5:11, 11:9, 12:10, 3:11)
Jonathan Groth (#38) 3:4 Zhou Yu (#47) (11:4, 6:11, 12:10, 11:9, 3:11, 5:11, 8:11)
Jeong Sangeun (#36) 4:2 Yu Ziyang (unr) (11:8, 7:11, 11:9, 11:7, 7:11, 12:10)
Joao Monteiro (#47) 2:4 Bence Majoros (#227) (12:10, 4:11, 11:5, 9:11, 10:12, 8:11)
Paul Drinkhall (#44) 4:3 Ricardo Walther (#43) (11:13, 11:4, 11:9, 11:9, 6:11, 10:12, 11:6)
Hunor Szocs (#83) 1:4 Jin Ueda (#38) (12:10, 9:11, 5:11, 9:11, 8:11)
Tiago Apolonia (#40) 4:1 Alexey Liventsov (11:3, 9:11, 11:6, 11:5, 11:5)
Maharu Yoshimura (#30) 4:0 Benedikt Duda (#51) (11:4, 11:9, 11:9, 11:5)
Yuto Kizukuri (#90) 4:2 Kou Lei (#34) (11:8, 11:13, 11:9, 11:8, 10:12, 11:7)


Women's Singles:

Preliminary Round 1:
Elizabeta Samara 0:4 Li Xiaodan
Yui Hamamoto 0:4 Feng Yalan
Miyu Kato 2:4 Liu Xi (11:7, 11:7, 5:11, 8:11, 7:11, 14:16)
Yang Haeun 0:4 Sun Mingyang
Gu Yuting 4:1 Minami Ando
Wang Yidi 4:1 Misaki Morizono
Sheng Dandan 4:0 Kim Kyungah
Suh Hyowon 4:3 Wen Jia (13:11, 11:8, 11:7, 7:11, 7:11, 5:11, 11:8)

Chen Szu-Yu 2:4 Chen Ke (4:11, 9:11, 11:9, 7:11, 11:9, 6:11)
Chen Xingtong 4:2 Maki Shiomi (9:11, 6:11, 16:14, 11:5, 11:1, 11:6)
Liu Jia 4:2 Lee Ho Ching
Sofia Polcanova 4:2 Mizuki Morizono
Yu Fu 3:4 Jiang Huajun (11:8, 10:12, 7:11, 8:11, 11:7, 12:10, 7:11)
Saki Shibata 2:4 Cheng Hsien-Tzu


U21 Men's Singles:

Semi-finals:
Ho Kwan Kit 1:3 Xue Fei (11:7, 7:11, 6:11, 4:11)
Mizuki Oikawa 3:1 Liao Cheng-Ting (11:7, 11:5, 8:11, 11:7)

Final:
Xue Fei 3:0 Mizuki Oikawa (11:7, 11:8, 11:9)


U21 Women's Singles:

Semi-finals:
Minnie Soo Wai Yam 1:3 Chen Ke (7:11, 11:3, 4:11, 5:11)
Miyu Maeda 0:3 Sun Mingyang (6:11, 9:11, 8:11)

Final:
Chen Ke 3:1 Sun Mingyang (7:11, 11:3, 11:7, 11:7)

Note: CNT players in yellow.

Filus vs Gardos

Schedule for Day 4 (Fri 10 November 2017)

Women's Singles - Round of 32:

11:30
T2 Zhu Yuling (WR #2) vs Lee I-Chen (WR #109)
T1 Liu Xi (unr) vs Shan Xiaona (WR#17)
T3 Jeon Jihee (WR #16) vs Chen Xingtong (WR #36)
T4 Jiang Huajun (WR #46) vs Wang Manyu (WR #11)

12:20
T3 Cheng I-Ching (WR #10) vs Sheng Dandan (WR #97)
T2 Sofia Polcanova (WR #37) vs Wu Yang (WR #15)
T1 Han Ying (WR #12) vs Suh Hyowon (WR #27)
T4 Cheng Hsien-Tzu (WR #79) vs Kasumi Ishikawa (WR #5)

13:10
T1 Miu Hirano (WR #6) vs Feng Yalan (unr)
T3 Miyu Nagasaki (WR #107) vs Doo Hoi Kem (WR #19)
T4 Hina Hayata (WR #15) vs Sun Mingyang (WR #220)
T2 Gu Yuting (WR #22) vs Mima Ito (WR #7)

14:00
T2 Feng Tianwei (WR #8) vs Li Xiaodan (unr)
T3 Chen Ke (WR #66) vs Honoka Hashimoto (WR #14)
T4 Hitomi Sato (WR #13) vs Wang Yidi (WR #98)
T1 Liu Jia (WR #35) vs Chen Meng (WR #3)


Men's Singles - Round of 32:

15:30
T1 Fan Zhendong (WR #2) vs Patrick Franziska (WR #55)
T2 Zhou Yu (WR #47) vs Vladimir Samsonov (WR #14)
T3 Kenta Matsudaira (WR #11) vs Paul Drinkhall (WR #44)
T4 Jeong Sangeun (WR #36) vs Koki Niwa (WR #8)

16:20
T2 Zhang Jike (WR #6) vs Tiago Apolonia (WR #40)
T3 Masataka Morizono (WR #53) vs Wong Chun Ting (WR #10)
T4 Yan An (WR #17) vs Yuto Kizukuri (WR #90)
T1 Bence Majoros vs Dimitrij Ovtcharov (WR #4)

19:30
T1 Timo Boll (WR #5) vs Kristian Karlsson (WR #23)
T3 Jin Ueda (WR #38) vs Simon Gauzy (WR #13)
T2 Chuang Chih-Yuan (WR #15) vs Ruwen Filus (WR #24)
T4 Maharu Yoshimura (WR #30) vs Lin Gaoyuan (WR #9)

20:20
T1 Jun Mizutani (WR #7) vs Bastian Steger (WR #29)
T3 Jakub Dyjas (WR #59) vs Lee Sangsu (WR #16)
T4 Tomokazu Harimoto (WR #18) vs Marcos Freitas (WR #19)
T2 Yuya Oshima (WR #24) vs Xu Xin (WR #3)

Garrison said:

Bence Majoros incredible run so far gets rewarded with a match against Ovtcharov

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Monteiro beat Ovtcharov. Aruna took Dima to 7 games. If Majoros plays like he has so far, he has chance.

German open is like mini world championship. So many amazing matches coming up !!!

João Monteiro vs Bence Majoros

Fantastic match

Nice doubles game between Filus/Walther and Harimoto/Kizukuri. Tomo needs the warmup for playing Marcos Freitas tomorrow,

Timo and Dima are way too tired from the last World Cup just a few weeks ago. It would be hard for them to win again because the German Open has always been pretty competitive

confiscate said:

Timo and Dima are way too tired from the last World Cup just a few weeks ago. It would be hard for them to win again because the German Open has always been pretty competitive

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I am not sure if they are tired. They went back to t2apac and played good number of matches there.

JesperStef said:

Results from Day 3 (9 November 2017):
Yang Haeun 0:4 Sun Mingyang

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holy cow! First time seeing Sun Mingyang and very impressed with her play. Hell of a forehand flick.

lol she's really good...for a big girl

Hi there! Thanks a lot for the shared thread! I really love the way how you produce and introduce the following issue.

ajtatosmano2 said:

I though about policy changing because since the staff change we have seen more chinese players in every tournament where they sent players. They used to send the top players +2 other player to have a chance to prove (Zhou Yu, Fang Bo, Yan An, Liang Jingkun, Shang Kun were the the most frequently sent players), but nowadays they send even 4-5 plus players.

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I'm not 100% sure on what the new coaching policy would be
but from history 2017 being a non olympic year, they would start experimenting.
So this is one of the world tours flooded with CNT players
i won't be surprised to see more next year, but from 2018 to 2019 it should be the main players, because they are fighting for Olympic and then for seeding for Olympic

drunix80 said:

I am not sure if they are tired. They went back to t2apac and played good number of matches there.

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T2apac this year, was a bit of a problem for national federations
The communication was made very late, and then only afterwards did some federation know it was "every month"

You can see the players are indeed very tired from it

The FZD/XX double I'm seeing now doesn't seem to be playing their A game. Unless strange things happen (which they do, but not very often) Harimoto/Kizukuri are cruising towards victory.

My tin foil hat being off, I start to see a pattern in Ma Longs demise, Liu Guoliangs exile into a fancily named labour camp, and this.

Ok, it's sealed. Yay for Hari/Kizu.

yoass said:

The FZD/XX double I'm seeing now doesn't seem to be playing their A game. Unless strange things happen (which they do, but not very often) Harimoto/Kizukuri are cruising towards victory.

My tin foil hat being off, I start to see a pattern in Ma Longs demise, Liu Guoliangs exile into a fancily named labour camp, and this.

Ok, it's sealed. Yay for Hari/Kizu.

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they also won 3-2 at the China Open, that was even more impressive

Wow. Didn't see that coming.
Quite impressive.
That means Harimoto/Kizukuri vs Won Chun Ting/Ho Kwan Kit in the semis?

Odds for 3:0 Harimoto and Kizu were around 50