Australian Open 2018

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The ITTF World Tour circuit now moves onto the Australian Open which is a platinum event that will take place from the 24th to 29th July 2018.


Main Draw

Knock Out Rounds


Men's Singles Seeds

Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov, has entered the Australian Open as the number 1 seed!

Dimitrij Ovtcharov enters the Australian Open as the no.1 seed - Photo by: ITTF Flickr

01) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
02) Xu Xin
03) Lee Sangsu
04) Koki Niwa
05) Tomokazu Harimoto
06) Hugo Calderano
07) Simon Gauzy
08) Jun Mizutani
09) Kenta Matsudaira
10) Chuang Chih Yuan
11) Quadri Aruna
12) Lim Jonghoon
13) Jin Ueda
14) Patrick Franziska
15) Masaki Yoshida
16) David Powell


Women's Singles Seeds

Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa enters the Australian Open as the number 1 seed.

Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa enters the Australian Open as the #1 seed - Photo by: ITTF Flickr

01) Kasumi Ishikawa
02) Liu Shiwen
03) Mima Ito
04) Miu Hirano
05) Cheng I-Ching
06) Feng Tianwei
07) Ding Ning
08) Hitomi Sato
09) Suh Hyowon
10) Hina Hayata
11) Yuting Gu
12) Miyu Kato
13) Saki Shibata
14) Chen Szu-Yu
15) Jeon Jihee
16) Lay Jian Fang


For full player entries click here.

A fantastic event to follow, be sure to get involved in the TTD topic and get involved with the discussions.

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.

 

[Garrison]

Come on Dima it's time to shine again.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

WTF they managed to seed one local player in each table ???

 

[usualsuspect]

WTF they managed to seed one local player in each table ???

I'm not sure how the drawing is done, but that looks mighty suspect...

 

[sktrdie]

I know Ma Long is injured but what about FZH?

 

[tabletennisuk]

In terms of the seedings, think this might be standard. Looking back at the Qatar Open, Li Ping was seeded 16 as well. Looks like it’s some sort of hosts benefit. Probably ensures some sort of home interest for longer in the competition.


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[Suga D]

I know Ma Long is injured but what about FZH?

Again. Who? Fan Zhen Hong??
Isn't he playing professional Chess?
[Emoji23]

 

[usualsuspect]

In terms of the seedings, think this might be standard. Looking back at the Qatar Open, Li Ping was seeded 16 as well. Looks like it’s some sort of hosts benefit. Probably ensures some sort of home interest for longer in the competition.

What...? That seems unfair... When you already have the home field advantage and the home crowd behind you, you still need to manipulate the drawing as an incentive?

Just look at the main draw. There are 6 Japanese players in the top 16 seeding. Somehow, 4 of them landed in brackets right next to each other. The 2 Korean players also landed in the same bracket. How does this happen?

Is the bracket placement based on seeding (like 1 vs 16, 2 vs 15, 3 vs 14, and so on)? Or is it "random" chance that this happened?

 

[Loopadoop]

Who wins Xu or Ovtcharov ?

Liu Shiwen or Mima Ito ?

 

[Sali]

Who wins Xu or Ovtcharov ?
?

None of them.

 

[JesperStef]

Selected results from Day 1 (Tue 24 July 2018):

Men's Singles

Qualification groups:

[2] Jang Woojin 4:1 Cho Daeseong (11:7, 11:8, 11:4, 7:11, 11:6)
Yu Ziyang 4:3 Cho Daeseong (7:11, 9:11, 11:5, 11:5, 11:7, 9:11, 11:7)
Taimu Arinobu, JPN 4:2 Tiago Apolonia [5] (11:8, 11:7, 5:11, 5:11, 11:8, 11:8)
[19] Kazuhiro Yoshimura 4:0 Kenta Tazoe (11:8, 15:13, 11:4, 11:8)


Women's Singles

Qualification groups:

Li Jiayi 4:1 Fan Siqi (11:13, 12:10, 11:6, 11:7, 11:8)
Marina Matsuzawa 4:3 Miyu Nagasaki [10] (8:11, 10:12, 11:3, 12:10, 10:12, 11:8, 11:7)
Jee Minhyung, AUS 4:2 Shao Jieni, POR (11:3, 1:11, 11:7, 11:9, 5:11, 13:11)
[16] Satsuki Odo 4:2 Miyuu Kihara (11:9, 13:11, 12:10, 6:11, 2:11, 11:3)

 

[jawien]

Taimu Arinobu, JPN 4:2 Tiago Apolonia [5] (11:8, 11:7, 5:11, 5:11, 11:8, 11:8)

No disrespect to Taimu, but I'm still waiting for Tiago's breakthrough ...

 

[Sali]

Tiago is already 31 with very poor BH and although I like him I do not expect him coming back to top 20

 

[CroneOne]

I was hoping for Calderano to break out by the way he played in Qatar. It's always
tough to see players kick ass in one tournament but then not follow up on it.
Will Jang Woojin continue to dominate? We'll see.

Taimu Arinobu, JPN 4:2 Tiago Apolonia [5] (11:8, 11:7, 5:11, 5:11, 11:8, 11:8)

No disrespect to Taimu, but I'm still waiting for Tiago's breakthrough ...

 

[Junting]

Yu Ziyang defeated Jang Woojin the Korean Open Champion by 4-3 (7th set 11-9)! What a close game!

Finally YZY made it into the main entry after struggling so many times in qualifications this year.

 

[Takkyu_wa_inochi]

At last some vacations for Jang Woojin

 

[bircham boi]

What...? That seems unfair... When you already have the home field advantage and the home crowd behind you, you still need to manipulate the drawing as an incentive?

This made me laugh out loud. A lot. For a long time.

This is Australia, a country which invests its energy in a form of football played in no other country in the world, where tens of thousands will crowd around ovals every weekend to watch grown men grubbing in the mud to kick a non-round ball. But table tennis? A game dismissed at best and ridiculed at worst. The crowd for the finals will be measured in tens, possibly a couple of hundred, and every single Australian player will have exited the competition days before.

Home field advantage? Home crowd? You're dreaming.

If you look at the entries shown on the ITTF site, you'll see that Aussies are the lowest ranked players in both men and women. The only seeded male player is David Powell (16), and that is a home Association concession. Similarly for Lay Jian Fang in the women's.

 

[Loopadoop]

My picks singles

Men Tom Harimoto

Women Mima Ito

 

[zeio]

Read the directives for once, will ya? This has been how it's done for many years.

https://d3mjm6zw6cr45s.cloudfront.net/2017/10/2018_WT_Directives_FINAL.pdf

2.2. Playing System
a. Men’s and Women’s Singles: Knock out - Main Draw of 32.
• Top 16 seeded (or Top 15 plus 1 player from the host association or Top 14 plus 2 players from the host association, provided that the one player is in the Top 50 positions of the WR). In both cases, this applies only if no players from the host association are already included in the Top 16 players by default, according to the latest available ITTF World Ranking, at the date of the final entries deadline.
...
b. Men’s and Women’s Doubles: Knock out - Main Draw of 16.
• Top 8 seeded pairs according to the Doubles’ Ranking (or Top 7 plus 1 pair from the host association, if not already included in the Top 8 doubles by default. A “mixed” pair composed of players from different associations can be seeded by the request of the host association, provided that one of the two players is from the host association).

 

[Sali]

the main draw is ready:
https://bornanblob.blob.core.windows.net/ittf-web-results/html/TTE2824/brackets.html

Already in first round we will have tough fights
ovtcharov - zhiyang
mizutani-dingshuo
youngsik-sangsu
niwa-zhou yu