Other Events | 14 Nov 2014

Kristian KARLSSON shines in Stockholm

In the opening rounds of the Men’s Singles event at the GAC Group 2014 ITTF World Tour Swedish Open in Stockholm Kristian KARLSSON made a top rate upset. The no.24 seed beat Germany’s Ricardo WALTHER, the winner earlier in the year of the Men’s Singles ev

In the opening rounds of the Men’s Singles event at the GAC Group 2014 ITTF World Tour Swedish Open in Stockholm Kristian KARLSSON made a top rate upset. The no.24 seed beat Germany’s Ricardo WALTHER, the winner earlier in the year of the Men’s Singles event at the GAC Group 2014, ITTF World Tour Croatian Open in Zagreb. And that was not all. In the second round KARLSSON overcame Panagiotis GIONIS of Greece. European bronze medalists, seeded no. 11 in Sweden, suffered straight games defeat.

Germany’s Dimitrij OVTCHAROV, the no.3 seed, accounted for Maharu YOSHIMURA of Japapan before he beat LI Hu of Singapore

Simon GAUZY beat Brazil’s Gustavo TSUBOI, the no.19 seed and he continued in same style in second round. Young French star beat Koki NIWA of Japan in seven games.

China’s 18 year old LIANG Jinkun beat Croatia’s Andrej GACINA, the no.10 seed. Slovak Republic’s WANG Yang accounted for Japan’s Masataka MORIZONO, the no.15.

Germany will have two representatives in tomorrow’s Round of 16 in Women’s Singles Event. After thrilling seven games Kristin SILBEREISEN overcame Irene IVANCAN to reach next round, whilst HAN Jing beat Poland’s LI QIan to join her. SILBEREISEN will; meet YU Mengyu of Singapore, whilst HAN will play against YU Fu of Polrtugal. Yu overcame LIN Chia-Hui of Taipei tonight. In all-European duel, Dora MADARASZ of Hungary overcame Matilda EKHOLM of Sweden. In Round of 16 she will meet LIU JIa of Austria who beat WU JIaduo of Germany.