Croatia Open 2014 - ITTF World Tour

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GAC Group 2014 ITTF World Tour, Croatia (Zagreb) Open (Challenge),21 May 2014 - 24 May 2014, Zagreb, Croatia

This week will see 2 World Tour events, the Croatian Open and the Australian Open which are both Challenge Series.

Total number of entries so far is: 204

Main Draw

Men's Singles
Women's Singles
Men's Singles (Qual Groups)
Women's Singles (Qual Groups)

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

Japan's Yuto Muramatsu the World #83 has entered the Croatian Open as the #1 seed.

Yuto Muramatsu no.1 seed - Photo by: Remy Gros


Men's Singles Seeds

Germany's Ricardo Walther enters the tournament as the #4 seed - Photo by: ttbl.de

01) Yuto Muramatsu
02) Abdel-Kader Salifou
03) Maharu Yoshimura
04) Ricardo Walther
05) Masaki Yoshida
06) Pavel Platonov
07) Fedor Kuzmin
08) Romain Lorentz
09) Jeremy Petiot
10) Benjamin Brossier
11) Michal Obeslo
12) Benedikt Duda
13) Jakub Dyjas
14) Marcos Madrid
15) Hunor Szocs
16) Tomislav Pucar

For full Men's entries click here.


Women Singles Seeds

Georgina Pota enters the tournament as the #1 seed - Photo by: Alex Lomaev

01) Georgina Pota
02) Yuka Ishigaki
03) Sofia Polcanova
04) Iveta Vacenovska
05) Misako Wakamiya
06) Amelie Solja
07) Xiaoxin Yang
08) Camelia Postoaca
09) Yana Noskova
10) Szandra Pergel
11) Polina Mikhailova
12) Barbora Balazova
13) Haruka Sakai
14) Britt Eerland
15) Ana-Maria Erdelji
16) Yuan Tian

For full Women's entries click here.

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

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.

 

[agold]

01) Yuto Muramatsu
02) Abdel-Kader Salifou
03) Maharu Yoshimura
04) Ricardo Walther
05) Masaki Yoshida
06) Pavel Platonov
07) Fedor Kuzmin
08) Romain Lorentz
09) Jeremy Petiot
10) Benjamin Brossier
11) Michal Obeslo
12) Benedikt Duda
13) Jakub Dyjas
14) Marcos Madrid
15) Hunor Szocs
16) Tomislav Pucar

I don't know most of the people on this list. Why don't many people play these?

 

[MDanielCRO]

I don't know why, but Gacina, Ruiwu, Tosic and Kolarek are not playing, but they were on the list before..

 

[MrThePortal]

Q. Group
Alexandre Robinot Vs Alexader Chen

 

[mistreaver]

Q. Group
Alexandre Robinot Vs Alexader Chen

I am just wondering, aren't serves of both players ilegal?
Robinot barely throws the ball up, and Chen throws the ball towards himself. And aditionally they are both very late with the hand removal before the contact?

 

[MDanielCRO]

I am just wondering, aren't serves of both players ilegal?
Robinot barely throws the ball up, and Chen throws the ball towards himself. And aditionally they are both very late with the hand removal before the contact?

Today all young players are trying to hide their serves different ways, but if umpire is strict he can warn them to throw the ball straight or to remove their left hand earlier. But they just don't care here.

 

[MrThePortal]

U21 Round 1

 

[MrThePortal]

Girl's U21 1/4 Final

 

[MrThePortal]

Round Of 32

 

[MrThePortal]

Round Of 16

 

[MrThePortal]

Round Of 16

 

[M51]

Just got back from Zagreb. Might as well share a few photos. And a video.

(Table tennis inside the hockey rink. Only in Croatia. )

 

[dici]

The venue actually looks great

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[M51]

The venue actually looks great

Yeah, but it's way too big for an event like this. It felt so... Desolate and quiet.

If you ask me, they should have held it in hall number two, where they held the 2002 ETTC.

 

[M51]

Wow, what a finale! Ricardo Walther showed fantastic mental strength!

 

[MrThePortal]

AMAZING FINAL!!

 

[MDanielCRO]

I am really sorry that in Croatia there is no interest for table tennis. I've heard that there were only few spectators, and they even called our coach and invited us to come on ifnals day, but no one was interested because our best players didn't play in this event.. Very sad

Btw, Richardo had my vote!! Congratulations to him.

 

[mistreaver]

I agree, the sadest part was the fact that the entry was completely free. The final was reasonably visited (let's say 200 spectators) but only because there were some games and prizes afterwards, and everyone in the hall was somehow connected with tabel tennis. On the other days it was piece and quiet, and there were more Japanese and French people in the hall, then Croatians.
I don't know the reason why top seeded Croatian players like Gacina, Tan Ruiwu, Tosic and Kolarek canceled in last minute. I've heard different stories, from the fact that they have club obligations (namely, Kolarek in Poland), to the fact that they are keeping their WR (especially Gacina who would drop a few spots in case of not winning the tournament), and there were also rumours they refused to play since national federation refused to sponsor their participation. I repeat, these are only rumours, but if even half of them were true it would make me real sad and it's really a shame that Croatia's best players refuse to participate in promotion of the sport in their country.

 

[izra]

gacina felt exhausted, sickly and not in any form to perform, so he withdrew. the money reasons are just rumors and shouldn't be taken seriously.

 

[MrThePortal]

U21 Final (Private Recording)

Alexandre Robinot Vs Jakub Dyjas