Czech Open 2018

[lugi2000]

Michael Maze already out, I wanted to see him do well and take on the top guys

 

[zeio]

Xu Chenhao joins the casualty list.

 

[jedimasterplk]

Unfortunately, he has got no chance of doing that. I like Maze, but he is finished.

 

[usualsuspect]

Looks like only one men from CNT made it through the qualification... Oh well, hope he does well.

 

[DragonOwen]

WOW, russian players mostly great performance at this round, Vlasov, Burov, Skachkov go through it! Especially happy for Burov, he is from my city, hope there will be video of his match with Gacina somewhere, really want to watch it!

0-4 for Shibaev is kinda sad though... also sad for Mikhailova loss, she also from my city, even seen her training a few times not too long ago (about 3-4 weeks ago was training on table next to table she was training)

 

[mrk]

Looks like only one men from CNT made it through the qualification... Oh well, hope he does well.

Two chinese players: Zhang Yudong and Zheng Peifeng.

 

[atrapa]

main draw on the women side
all 6 chinese women in bottom half
it will be very very hard for ito mima to defend her czech open title from 2017
she will most probably be facing a chinese player in each round - if she advances

 

[JesperStef]

Selected results from Day 2 (Wed 22 August 2018)

Men's Singles

Preliminary round 3:

[12] Kirill Skachkov 4:2 Xu Chenhao
Lubomir Jancarik 4:2 Jon Persson [11]
David Reitspies 4:2 Can Akkuzu [19]
Taku Takakiwa 4:1 Alexey Liventsov [25]
Zheng Peifeng 4:0 Joao Geraldo [31]
Park Ganghyeon 4:3 Hunor Szocs [32]

Preliminary round 4 (winners qualify for Main Draw):

Viacheslav Burov 4:3 Thiago Monteiro
Taku Takakiwa 4:3 Gustavo Tsuboi [2]
[3] Liam Pitchford 4:0 Kim Minhyeok
[22] Jakub Dyjas 4:2 Robert Gardos [4]
Zheng Peifeng 4:0 Stefan Fegerl [5]
[24] Tomislav Pucar 4:0 Takuya Jin
[7] Daniel Habesohn 4:0 Pavel Platonov
[8] Ricardo Walther 4:0 David Reitspies
[9] Cedric Nuytinck 4:2 Kazuhiro Yoshimura [23]
Kohei Sambe 1:4 Zhang Yudong
Lubomir Jancarik 0:4 Yuki Hirano
[12] Kirill Skachkov 4:1 Mihai Bobocica [30]
[27] Pär Gerell 2:4 Marek Badowski
Park Ganghyeon 4:1 Ovidiu Ionescu [14]
[18] Mizuki Oikawa 4:1 Lubomir Pistej [15]
[16] Darko Jorgic 4:0 Alexandre Robinot


Women's Singles

Preliminary round 3:

Wan Yuan, GER 4:2 Britt Eerland [7]
Kristin Lang 4:0 Viktoria Pavlovich [10]
Liu Gaoyang 4:0 Nina Mittelham [11]
Liu Xi, CHN 4:0 Natalia Partyka [12]
Yang Xiaoxin, MON 4:3 Zeng Jian, SGP [14]
Mizuki Morizono 4:2 Maria Xiao [16]
Bernadett Balint 4:3 Szandra Pergel [18]
Alex Galic 4:3 Sarah De Nutte [25]
Sun Mingyang, CHN 4:1 Dora Madarasz [30]

Preliminary round 4 (winners qualify for Main Draw):

[1] Adriana Diaz 4:1 Bruna Takahashi [19]
[2] Miyu Nagasaki 4:2 Bernadett Balint
[3] Li Jie, NED 4:2 Mayu Baba
[23] Zhang Rui, CHN 4:0 Oceane Guisnel
Wu Yang, CHN 4:0 Maki Shiomi [5]
[6] Fu Yu, POR 4:1 Takako Nagao
[21] Wu Yue, USA 4:0 Wan Yuan, GER
[17] Wang Yidi, CHN 4:0 Kim Hayeong
Wen Jia, CHN 4:3 Chen Ke, CHN [9]
Kristin Lang 4:2 Renata Strbikova
Liu Gaoyang 4:1 Miyuu Kihara [27]
Sun Mingyang, CHN 4:1 Liu Xi, CHN
[13] Sabine Winter 4:2 Daria Trigolos
Yang Xiaoxin, MON 4:1 Alex Galic
Yumeno Soma 4:1 Giorgia Piccolin [24]
Mizuki Morizono 4:1 Yana Noskova [20]


U21 Men's Singles

Semi-finals:

[1] Yuto Kizukuri 3:0 Koyo Kanamitsu [14] (16:14, 11:9, 11:8)
[2] Darko Jorgic 3:2 Yuki Matsuyama (6:11, 11:4, 6:11, 13:11, 11:6)

Final:

[1] Yuto Kizukuri 3:2 Darko Jorgic [2] (12:10, 11:3, 8:11, 8:11, 11:6)


U21 Women's Singles

Semi-finals:

[1] Chen Ke 3:0 Zhang Rui [3] (11:9, 11:6, 11:6)
[4] Wang Yidi 3:0 Miyu Nagasaki [2] (11:7, 11:6, 11:3)

Final:

[4] Wang Yidi 3:2 Chen Ke [1] (11:4, 9:11, 6:11, 11:9, 11:9)

 

[ttpshot]

Wow, what a long road just to qualify. Looks like we need more satelite(challenger) level PTs!

 

[jamesmith]

again it is ridiculous that all the Chinese woman players are all in bottom half. Now it seems all the Chinese players have to play at the same half. If you look at the last few tournament, you can see the draws were like this

 

[zeio]

Confirmation bias in full force here.

 

[DragonOwen]

Nice, Skachkov and Burov get into Main Draw, Burov even beat Monteiro in 4th prelim round (hope he have enough endurance, 3 preliminary rounds in a row 4-3 win, tough...), hope they get even further!

A bit sad for Vlasov, after beating Maze 4-1 he was crushed 0-4 in next round by Jorgic (3-11,9-11,8-11,5-11)...

 

[jawien]

WOW, russian players mostly great performance at this round, Vlasov, Burov, Skachkov go through it! Especially happy for Burov, he is from my city, hope there will be video of his match with Gacina somewhere, really want to watch it!

0-4 for Shibaev is kinda sad though... also sad for Mikhailova loss, she also from my city, even seen her training a few times not too long ago (about 3-4 weeks ago was training on table next to table she was training)

Yeah, she plays spectacular with those short pips. She had a good run in Olomouc few years ago I think.

 

[Sali]

again it is ridiculous that all the Chinese woman players are all in bottom half. Now it seems all the Chinese players have to play at the same half. If you look at the last few tournament, you can see the draws were like this

You can also say it other way. Ittf took all effort to make sure Mima Ito will not win this tour:
1 round Zhang Rui
2 round probably Liu Gaoyang
3 round probably Wen Jia
4 round you can choose betwen Wu Yang, Wang Yidi and Sun Mingyang
So she needs to take down all chinese girls to meet Kasumi in the final. Of course I know zeio see it in different way (lucky ishikawa)
I think it is just random selection causes this thing, they all played preliminary rounds so I do not see any unfair process. Of course if somebody likes conspiracy teories - there is not much to say.

 

[frouille]

Thank U for the results

 

[langel]

Pitchford played well.

 

[Daniel Hasson]

Pitchford played well.

Against who?

 

[ZhouZhekai]

Koki Niwa vs Oikawa is realy entertaining, it is like a womens game just of the table

 

[zeio]

Dramatic match b/w Ito and Zhang Rui. From 3 games up to 3 all, then from a big lead to a deep hole in the last game.

 

[Loopadoop]

R32

T Harimoto and V Samsonov advance