Qatar Open 2012 - ITTF World Tour

[TT Guru]

Well even Ma Long, Zhang Jike & Timo Boll have withdrawn, it's still gonna be an amazing journey!!
Can't wait!!!
It starts tomorrow *.*

Little off-topic: When do the World Championships occur? :>

World Championships are beginning March 25, ending on April 1st.
They're being held in Germany this year, so should draw a good crowd.

 

[Matt Hetherington]

Can't wait, the World Team Champs is one of my favourite events

 

[yang_fan]

Don't think Wang Hao, xu xin, or ma lin will show either, saw them going to the training camp with ma long and zhang jike.

 

[Dan]

Don't think Wang Hao, xu xin, or ma lin will show either, saw them going to the training camp with ma long and zhang jike.

Yeah I saw that to, however Wang Hao just had a status saying he is boarding .. I'm presuming he is boarding a flight to Qatar

 

[PlasmaLight]

nice to see the young chinese woman play. looking forward to see chen meng, wjttc champion, playing ^^

 

[TT Guru]

Just finished watching Live Streaming of qualification round, Alexey Liventsov vs Mihae Bobocica.
It was a full on match going to 7 sets, with many great points, including the last point!
For any who are interested, the match should be available on ITtv soon.
Really hope this one gets on YouTube

 

[Michal_Z]

I just checked the Main draw and.. there can be several interesting matches going on..
first of all round 1:
Kenji Matsudaira vs. Vladimir Samsonov.. Samsonov has to proove himself, his form is not great lately and this Japanese is quite good..
Kishikawa vs. Ruwen Filus, german defender.. too bad not streamed..
Crisan vs. Štetinin.. omg would love to see that one!
Chuang-Chih Yuan vs. Legout .. ou yeah!
Tiago Apolonia vs. Simon Gauzy .. cant really bet on that one!
Chen Weixing vs. Jean Michel Saive can be pretty damn good too!
Monteiro vs. Smirnov!
Habesohn vs. Mizutani!

And without any upsets there are another possible matches, like:
Joo Se Hyuk vs. Chen Weixing .. cant really imagine how that would look like!
Ning Gao vs. Christian Suss
Robinot vs. Koki Niwa
Mizutani vs. Ryu Seung Min
Baum vs. Ma Lin
Tokic vs. Persson, Tokic vs. Chuang Chih Yuan
Ovtcharov vs. Crisan, Ovtcharov vs. Kishikawa
Samsonov vs. Wang Hao
Ovtcharov vs. Wang Hao..
Many possibilities.. on a good matches

Ovtcharov vs. Joo Se Hyuk can be quite interesting if it happens.

 

[Michal_Z]

Lol I just found one doubles match.. APOLONIA Tiago / MONTEIRO Joao POR vs AL-MOHANNADI Ahmad / ALMUGHANNE Fahed QAT
I turned it on and.. 11 minutes match duration?! WTF.. but.. well no injury.. it was whole match, lol

 

[pingpongemil]

Some who knows where Yan an is?? Shouldn´t he play more in the world events? Haven´t heard about him this year...

 

[WiWa]

Pretty interesting matches in the first round already indeed I hope we get to seem any of them on the live stream. Too bad it seems there is only one TV table.

 

[WiWa]

Some who knows where Yan an is?? Shouldn´t he play more in the world events? Haven´t heard about him this year...

He played in the Slovenian Open, lost 4-0 against Zhang Jike I think.

 

[Michal_Z]

And great match in doubles Monteiro Apolonia vs. Robinot Gauzy ..

 

[Michal_Z]

I just checked the Main draw and.. there can be several interesting matches going on..
first of all round 1:
Kenji Matsudaira vs. Vladimir Samsonov.. Samsonov has to proove himself, his form is not great lately and this Japanese is quite good..
Kishikawa vs. Ruwen Filus, german defender.. too bad not streamed..
Crisan vs. Štetinin.. omg would love to see that one!
Chuang-Chih Yuan vs. Legout .. ou yeah!
Tiago Apolonia vs. Simon Gauzy .. cant really bet on that one!
Chen Weixing vs. Jean Michel Saive can be pretty damn good too!
Monteiro vs. Smirnov!
Habesohn vs. Mizutani!

And without any upsets there are another possible matches, like:
Joo Se Hyuk vs. Chen Weixing .. cant really imagine how that would look like!
Ning Gao vs. Christian Suss
Robinot vs. Koki Niwa
Mizutani vs. Ryu Seung Min
Baum vs. Ma Lin
Tokic vs. Persson, Tokic vs. Chuang Chih Yuan
Ovtcharov vs. Crisan, Ovtcharov vs. Kishikawa
Samsonov vs. Wang Hao
Ovtcharov vs. Wang Hao..
Many possibilities.. on a good matches

Ovtcharov vs. Joo Se Hyuk can be quite interesting if it happens.

Ha.. Just like I said.. Samsonov had a tough time beating Kenji Matsudaira 4:3 (14-16,9-11,9-11,11-7,11-7,11-5,11-8), but credits to him to come back from 0:3 down..
Kishikawa LOST to Ruwen Filus, surprise surprise!!!
Crisan without any problems with Štetinin..
Chuang 4:0 beat Legout, too bad it was not closer match..
Apolonia beat Gauzy 4:1, I also expected it to be closer,..
Weixing beat easy Saive 4:0, that is also unexpected, but seems that Weixing is in a good form

 

[Vega]

Han Ying is really playing well atm, 2:2 in sets against Feng Tianwei and leading 7:0 in the fifth..

 

[Michal_Z]

And she won! 11:9 in the sixth!
OMG .. Feng Tianwei was so sad..

 

[Michal_Z]

BTW ... RYU SEUNG MIN is OUT!
He lost to Alexander Shibaev by 1:4!!! (11-5,11-13,8-11,10-12,12-14)

What a surprise!
Seems like russians found some way to beat classic penholders.. hehe..

 

[PlasmaLight]

also the german players did well. patrick franziska won against persson and ruwen fillus against kishikawa. really nice

 

[Michal_Z]

And now Suss leads Ning Gao .. hmm impressive!

 

[Dan]

also the german players did well. patrick franziska won against persson and ruwen fillus against kishikawa. really nice

Patrick beat Bojan Tokic in the next round to! Very promising player indeed

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[Matt Hetherington]

Franziska is doing awesome man, he won the Euro Youth Champs in 2010 had a few problems with injury 2nd half of last year but awesome to see him hit back hard. For those of you interested there is an interview with him here on TTDaily: http://www.tabletennisdaily.co.uk/f...-Patrick-Franziska-WR-132&highlight=franziska