Czech Open 2018

[TableTennisDaily]

The World Tour circuit now moves onto this weeks Czech Open, with some big names entered this competition is not to be missed. Last week saw the phenomenal Bulgaria Open which had many twists and turns. Firstly, Liam Pitchford eliminating number 1 seed Ma long in round 1! Kenta Matsudaira defeating Japanese team mate Tomokazu Harimoto and number 1 seed Dimitrij Ovtcharov losing to Zheng Peifeng. The Czech Open begins from the 21st to 26th August 2018.

Lots to look forward to, full Czech Open details below.

Main Draw

Daily Schedule
Knock Out Rounds


Men's Singles Seeds

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

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

01) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
02) Tomokazu Harimoto
03) Koki Niwa
04) Marcos Freitas
05) Jonathan Groth
06) Mattias Falck
07) RuwenFilus
08) Kristian Karlsson
09) Patrick Franziska
10) Vladimir Samsonov
11) Maharu Yoshimura
12) Kou Lei
13) Bastian Steger
14) Kirill Gerassimenko
15) Benedikt Duda
16) Pavel Sirucek


Women's Singles Seeds

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

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

01) Kasumi Ishikawa
02) Mima Ito
03) Miu Hirano
04) Hitomi Sato
05) Hina Hayata
06) Sofia Polcanova
07) Saki Shibata
08) Elizabeta Samara
09) Honoka Hashimoto
10) Matilda Ekholm
11) Li Qian
12) Bernadette Szcos
13) Georgina Pota
14) Han Ying ^
15) Hana Matelova
16) Dana Cechova


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.

 

[Filip]

Does anyone know why Mattias Karlsson changed his name to Mattias Falck?

 

[zeio]

Perhaps he's tired of being asked if he's the brother of Kristian Karlsson and Peter Karlsson...

 

[Jimbob MacInbred]

I heard that he has a strained relationship with his father whose first name is Karl, hence Mattias doesn't want to be the son of Karl anymore. He now wants to be a falcon...

Okay, well, he recently got married and assumed the name of his wife, for whatever reasons...

 

[sktrdie]

Where's all the Chinese players?

 

[Daniel Hasson]

Where's all the Chinese players?

In the qualification.

 

[drunix80]

Where's all the Chinese players?

I think all top CNT guys are resting while some.lower rung guys will start from quals ??

 

[Loopadoop]

This is going to be fun to watch with no CNT seeded in the top 16. The qualifying is going to be wild with them there.

 

[akoozab]

Any predictions?

 

[akoozab]

As always,my bet on Дядя Вова uncle Vladi!

 

[Loopadoop]

Men - Harimoto and 3 CNT top 4

Women - Ito and 3 CNT top 4

 

[lugi2000]

I would like to see Freitas go far in this one. Hes due a good tournament.

 

[v100ev]

Does anyone know why Mattias Karlsson changed his name to Mattias Falck?

He got married recently and took his wife's second name.

 

[Table Tennis Reborn]

Dima to win this

 

[Daniel Hasson]

Ma Te is out! I really thought he was a strong contender to win this open.

 

[perham]

Ma Te is out! I really thought he was a strong contender to win this open.

I thought the same actually. Also Zheng Pifeng was super close. I think they were both quite tired.


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[quanghuysk]

anybody knows how to buy tickets for that Czech Open?

 

[andrew_tihi]

michael maze played .....

 

[JesperStef]

Selected results from Day 1 (Tue 21 August 2018)

Men's Singles

Preliminary round 1:

Zhang Yudong 4:3 Baek Hogyun
Zheng Peifeng 4:3 Ondrej Bajger
Taku Takakiwa 4:3 Ma Te, CHN

Preliminary round 2:

Viacheslav Burov 4:3 Andrej Gacina [1]
[5] Stefan Fegerl 4:0 Xia Yizheng, CHN
Takuya Jin 4:3 Yuya Oshima [6]
Zhang Yudong 4:2 Paul Drinkhall [10]
[12] Kirill Skachkov 4:3 Xu Haidong, CHN
Marek Badowski 4:3 Bojan Tokic [13]
Yusuke Sadamatsu 4:2 Anton Källberg [17]
Tobias Hippler 4:1 Wang Yang, SVK [20]
Yuki Hirano 4:1 Eric Jouti [21]
Kohei Sambe 4:0 Alexander Shibaev [26]
Frane Kojic 4:0 Tomas Konecny [28]
Lei Chi-Chien 4:3 Florent Lambiet [29]
Grigory Vlasov 4:1 Michael Maze


Women's Singles

Preliminary round 2:

Valeria Shcherbatykh 4:1 Petrissa Solja [4]
Kim Hayeong 4:2 Polina Mikhailova [8]
Yumeno Soma 4:0 Ganna Gaponova [15]
Melanie Diaz 4:3 Katarzyna Grzybowska-Franc [22]
Takako Nagao 4:0 Mateja Jeger [26]
Mayu Baba 4:0 Debora Vivarelli [28]
Wen Jia, CHN 4:0 Tin-Tin Ho [31]

 

[PingPang2018]

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