The Draw of the LIEBHERR 2017 ITTF European Table Tennis Championships
Austria (2015 champion) and Portugal (2014 winner) will share Men’s Group B in the LIEBHERR 2017 ITTF European Table Tennis Championships. That was the outcome of the Draw held today in Luxembourg host country of the event scheduled for September 13th to 17th. Luxembourg’s top women’s player NI Xia Lian carried out the gripping draw of the teams for the Championship the Challenge and Standard Divisions.
The „referee“ of the Team Event Stuart SHERLOCK (ENG) was in charge of the draw in Luxembourg-Kirchberg; he was assisted by the Belgian ETTU Competition Manager Didier LEROY the Norwegian President of the ETTU Technical Committee Oivind ERIKSEN and Event Manager Jean-Marie LINSTER from Luxembourg.
Regarding Draw for the Men’s event reigning champion Austria will face 2014 winner Portugal Slovenia and Slovakia. Six times consecutive champion Germany actual runner-up will play in Group A beside 2015 bronze medalist Belarus Croatia and Spain.
The German ladies title-holders since the previous event will meet Hungary Sweden and Croatia in a group. NI Xia Lian the present number 57 in the world ranking was not lucky in the draw for her team. The hosts will face Romania the Czech Republic and the Netherlands. Luxembourg men’s team seeded in the Championship Division will compete against Sweden Greece and Russia.
In the Championship and Challenge Divisions each team plays each other team in each of the 4 groups which entails 3 matches per team in the best-of-five system. At the end of this group phase the first and second placed will go to the quarter finals and play by k.o. for places 1 to 8 while the third and fourth placed compete for positions 9 to 16. In the Challenge Division the first and second placed compete for positions 17 to 24 whereas the third and fourth place vie for positions 25 to 32. In the Standard Division all matches will be played starting with position 33.
WOMEN`S DRAW: 38 teams in total
Women`s Championships Division
GROUP A: Germany Hungary Sweden Croatia
GROUP B: Romania Czech Republic Netherlands Luxembourg
GROUP C: Austria Portugal Ukraine Spain
GROUP D: Poland Russia France Belarus
Women`s Challenge Division
GROUP E: Slovak Republic Lithuania Switzerland Finland
GROUP F: Serbia Belgium Italy Denmark
GROUP G: Turkey Wales Azerbaijan Bulgaria
GROUP D: England Slovenia Greece Israeli
Women`s Standard Division
GROUP I: Norway Estonia Bosnia Herzegovina Latvia Scotland Macedonia
MEN`S DRAW: 42 teams in total
Men`s Championships Division
GROUP A: Germany Croatia Spain Belarus
GROUP B: Portugal Austria Slovenia Slovak Republic
GROUP C: Sweden Greece Russia Luxembourg
GROUP D: France Romania Poland Ukraine
Men`s Challenge Division
GROUP E: England Denmark Netherlands Ireland
GROUP F: Czech Republic Turkey Bulgaria Switzerland
GROUP G: Hungary Belgium Finland Estonia
GROUP H: Italy Serbia Israeli Lithuania
Men`s Standard Division
GROUP I: Latvia Norway Azerbaijan Montenegro Cyprus
GROUP J: Scotland Wales Kosovo Bosnia Herzegovina Macedonia
