T2 Diamond 2019 Singapore
Patrick FRANZISKA lost to the no.4 seed Chinese Taipei’s LIN Yun-Ju in the quarter-finals of the T2 Diamond Singapore. German opened well the clash but lost next three games in a row. After the fourth game “Fast5” came into play providing new chance for no. 6 seed but LIN won after six games (10:11 11:6 11:6 11:2 1:5 5:2).
Men’s semi-finals (Nov 24): XU Xin (China) – Tomokazu HARIMOTO (Japan) LIN Yun-Ju (Chinese Taipei) – LIN Gaoyuan (China).
Women’s semi-finals (Nov 24): SUN Yingsha (China) – WANG Manyu (China) Mima ITO (Japan) – JEON Jihee (Korea).
T2 Diamond Table Tennis League is organised in collaboration with the ITTF. As a core tenet of ITTF innovation lab T2 Diamond functions as a testing bed for new rules and formats of table tennis assess their impact on the game and to prime them for wider usage within the ITTF circuit. Collectively the 32 participating players are awarded 16 600 bonus ITTF World Ranking points – a significant boost as they battle their way to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic qualification – and USD 500 000 in prize money.
