China Open 2017

[sanavasaraja]

Yeah, serve fault. Harimoto also get called for his serves, probably the throw wasn't high enough.

They even gave the point to vladi for that. Interesting to see more serves being called imo

 

[NextLevel]

Now it's 2-1 to Harimoto. He has answer for everything Vladi throws to him.

Come again?

 

[ajtatosmano2]

Vladi timeout. Nobody believes how good Harimoto is until they have to play with him. It costed the first set to Vladi.
EDIT: How sad, Harimoto missed an easy ball at 10-9

 

[TTHopeful]

Great match 2 games each. Experience will tell here i think

 

[sanavasaraja]

Super bad body language from Harimoto. Looking grim.

. nvm -- this game really is back and forth

. . he actually did it! 4-3 harimoto!

 

[TableTennisDaily]

UNBELIEVABLE SCENES! 13 year old wonder kid Tomokazu Harimoto has just eliminated TT Legend Vladimir Samsonov at the CHINA OPEN! What a match!

 

[yourock]

Is he the kid that Xu Xin eliminated in Düsseldorf?

 

[TTHopeful]

Yes. Hari has Xu Xin again in the next round...

 

[Xylit]

Is Samsonov finished?

 

[fxri]

bad streaming, and i cant open the link for main draw, please ITTF

 

[drunix80]

Sad news for Vladi. Anyway many predicted the result. Kudos to the kid !!!

 

[vik]

Ittv Do you see anything?

Ittv is black as always

NOW LIVE: Men's Round of 32! Live streaming here: https://tv.ittf.com/livestream/china-open-table-2/784084

What a great few weeks of table tennis we have had with the recent World Championships and Japan Open. The table tennis world now moves onto the China Open! As expected the China Open line up is huge! The prestigious event will take place in the city of Chengdu and begins on the 22nd June and concludes on the 25th June.

Total number of entries so far is: 159

Main Draw

Men's Singles
Women's Singles
Men's Doubles
Women's Doubles

Qualification Matches - Day 1

Live matches from the China Open can be watched in the ITTF Live Streaming which has playback on demand with integrated chat with TableTennisDaily members!

China's Ma Long, the recent World Champion has entered the China Open as the #1 seed.

2017 World Champion Ma Long the no.1 seed - Photo by: ITTF


Men's Singles Seeds

Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov enters the China Open as the #5 seed - Photo by: ITTF

01) Ma Long
02) Fan Zhendong
03) Xu Xin
04) Zhang Jike
05) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
06) Wong Chun Ting
07) Timo Boll
08) Koki Niwa
09) Vladimir Samsonov
10) Simon Gauzy
11) Kenta Matsudaira
12) Tiago Apolonia
13) Stefan Fegerl
14) Yuya Oshima
15) Kristian Karlsson
16) Yuto Muramatsu


Women Singles Seeds

Host nations Ding Ning enters the China Open as the #1 seed - Photo by: ITTF

01) Ding Ning
02) Liu Shiwen
03) Zhu Yuling
04) Feng Tianwei
05) Chen Meng
06) Kasumi Ishikawa
07) Miu Hirano
08) Han Ying
09) Hitomi Sato
10) Mima Ito
11) Doo Hoi Kem
12) Xiaona Shan
13) Hina Hayata
14) Jihee Jeon
15) Jian Zeng
16) Jie Li


For full player entries click here.


Live matches from the China Open can be watched in the ITTF Live Streaming which has playback on demand with integrated chat with TableTennisDaily members!

What an insane line up, the worlds best are all participating. Players from across the world are heading to China to battle at the platinum world tour event in Chengdu. Can Ma Long's crazy form be stopped? Will Fan Zhendong get 1 step closer to victory.... will Zhang Jike find some form to dismantle the dragon? Number 3 seed Xu Xin will be looking to take the top spot. Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Timo Boll are a great addition to the mix and will be players to watch out for. Japan's Jun Mizutani has not entered this event however his compatriot Koki Niwa who was victorious over Ovtcharov at the Worlds will be threat to the top guns. China youngsters Liang Jingkun and Lin Gaoyuan will be dangerous and can go all the way. How could we leave out the wonderkid? 13 year old Tomokazu Harimoto will be looking for big wins and is the most unpredictable player on the circuit right now! A lot of look forward to peeps!

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.

 

[yourock]

Samsonov is just "old" as an athlete.

 

[ajtatosmano2]

Samsonov is just "old" as an athlete.

I think Harimoto is very strong and a bad matchup for Vladi. Samsonov is usually wins a lot of points by being like a wall and manipulating the spin. Harimoto is very talented in reading the spin, hard to deceive. Plus he plays a very aggressive yet consistent attacking game.
I said earlier, I think Harimoto has the same talent as Boll. By looking closely at his short-game it can be seen.

 

[ping fun]

Is Samsonov finished?

Come on dont start again guys . Why every one tries to put an end to vladi every time???what bad he's done to you ?? is he taking some one's place's in table tennis world Harimoto won this game closely . Samsonov is a great athlete that doesnt have an end .... i want him to play several years again if his age lets him

 

[Garrison]

Timo is in trouble now :/ So many close sets, he is not happy with how the game goes.

 

[drunix80]

It surely does not look good for ZJK. Atleast Samsonov is not injured. The biggest puzzle for me is how ZJK only comes to know about his injury in the championship arena and not before !!!

 

[rainneverever]

Before China Open, ZJK attended at least three variety shows in a row. First one is the intense Amazing Race recorded aboard. Later when he attended the recording of a singing show, the staff said he had not rested for 30 hours. Not sure what he was doing for that 30 hours, but of course not playing TT. He attended another recording on 6/19 with Wang Tao and Guo Yue (wow) for some 5 hours before going to Chengdu for China Open. Is that how he got the hip injury?

 

[Garrison]

Wow, Omar Assar defeats Apolonia 12-10 in the decider!

 

[Greco]

Come on, Samsonov isn't finished, it's just that some limitations comes with the age, i can't pretend him to play like 10, 20 years ago. I don't think he has a top10 level anymore, but top20, i don't think it means finished..
He's a smart player, i think thats why he's still on the top, and... well, Harimoto is very smart too and also has a solid play, i was waiting for him to win.

Also, i must say the entire japanese team is doing very well, not only harimoto and miu hirano, thay already have an advantage over the young chinese, they have more international experience, i think that's one of the weakest points of the chinese team.
If everything keeps going on like this, the japanese team will be a very serious challenge for the chinese team in tokyo.