2nd European Games to be held from June 21 to 30 (table tennis June 22-29). Austrian NT: LIU Jie replaced by Amelie SOLJA in Women’s Singles. Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC (Serbian NT): “The draw is not so important”
Austria’s LIU Jie was replaced by her teammate Amelie SOLJA (no. 19 seed) in the Women’s Singles event at the 2019 European Games to be held from June 21 to 30 (table tennis June 22-29). There is one change in French men’s team due to small injurie of Tristan FLORE. His place in the team will take Can AKKUZU. Belarus Table Tennis Federation announced earlier that Viktoria PAVLOVICH got chance to play in the Women’s Singles event replacing Daria TRIGOLOS so it will be last chance for two-time individual European champion to play one big event at home soil in her bright career.
There is some more news from Belarus capital… Serbian National Team arrived in Minsk as four-time European champion in Mixed Doubles Aleksandar KARAKASEVIC stated:
“It will be very hard as European Games offers just one quota. The draw is not so important bearing in mind that just the winner will book its place for Olympic Games. So you must win all games. We didn’t play so bad in last two tournaments in Hong Kong and Japan. We are ready and everything depends on us.”
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Tennis Olympic Center with a capacity of 1 000 seats will host five table tennis events in Minsk from 22nd to 29th June. A total 122 players will compete for the spot at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: three medallists in the men’s and women’s singles events will secure their places while the gold medallists in the men’s and women’s team events and mixed doubles event will get an Olympic quota. That’s why all best European players will travel to Minsk.
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Top seeding list (best 16) Men Singles:
1 Timo BOLL (Germany) 2 Matias FALCK (Sweden) 3 Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (Germany) 4 Liam PITCHFORD (England) 5 Vladimir SAMSONOV (Belarus) 6 Simon GAUZY (France) 7 Kristian KARLSSON (Sweden) 8 Daniel HABESOHN (Austria) 9 Emmanuel LEBESSON (France) 10 Jonathan GROTH (Denmark) 11 Marcos FREITAS (Portugal) 12 Tomislav PUCAR (Croatia) 13 Tiago APOLONIA (Portugal) 14 Cedric NUYTINCK (Belgium) 15 Darko JORGIC (Slovenia) 16 Alvaro ROBLES MARTINEZ (Spain).
Top seeding list (best 16) Women Singles:
1 Bernadette SZOCS (Romania) 2 Sofia POLCANOVA (Austria) 3 Matilda EKHOLM (Sweden) 4 Petrissa SOLJA (Germany) 5 Elizabeta SAMARA (Romania) 6 Georgina POTA (Hungary) 7 LI Jie (Netherlands) 8 FU Yu (Portugal) 9 Britt EERLAND (Netherlands) 10 Margaryta PESOTSKA (Ukraine) 11 Barbora BALAZOVA (Slovakia) 12 Polina MIKHAILOVA (Russia) 13 HAN Ying (Germany) 14 LI Qian (Poland) 15 NI Xia Lian (Luxembourg) 16 Hana MATELOVA (Czech Republic).
Top seeding list (best 12) Men Team:
1 Germany 2 Sweden 3 Austria 4 Great Britain 5 France 6 Slovenia 7 Croatia 8 Belarus 9 Portugal 10 Belgium 11 Romania 12 Denmark.
Top seeding list (best 12) Women Team:
1 Germany 2 Romania 3 Hungary 4 Austria 5 Netherlands 6 Ukraine 7 Poland 8 Spain 8 Luxembourg 8 Russia 11 Sweden 12 Belarus.
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