After the successful premiere of the new tournament series “Düsseldorf Masters“ with Timo BOLL as the winner the series will continue with the part 2 on Monday and Tuesday 8/9 June.
Compared to the first tournament there will be a great number of new players due to the Bundesleague play-offs in the same week including USA’s number 1 Kanak Jha as well as some members of the German national youth team like the winner of the 2019 Europe Youth Top 10 Kay STUMPER.
TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen’s future player JHA is the 2nd seed after former World Cup champion Dimitrij OVTCHAROV. DANG Qiu and Ecuadorian Alberto MINO are the numbers 3 and 4 of the seeding list. The opening match on Monday at 9:30 a.m. will Tobias HIPPLER versus Felix KÖHLER. After that all further matches of the 1st round will be played „followed by” on Monday. The quarter finals and semi finals as well as the final on take place on Tuesday.
The series which will be held almost weekly at the ARAG CenterCourt from June to August is intended to give the German national players the players of Borussia Düsseldorf and the players of the training group at the German Table Tennis Centre in the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia Düsseldorf match practice.
The tournament which is organized by Borussia Düsseldorf with the support of the DTTB will be held over two days in the first two weeks. From the third week of the tournament on the Düsseldorf Masters will be played on three days. The format is a knock-out system with up to 16 participants. The series ends with a final tournament with 8 players for which the athletes have to qualify or are admitted through a wildcard.
All matches of the Düsseldorf Masters will be broadcasted live with 3 cameras on sportdeutschland.tv Borussia TV and tischtennis.de. Spectators on site are not allowed because of the corona pandemic.
Düsseldorf Masters 2nd tournament
Round of 16 Monday 8 June 2020 (in chronological order)
Tobias HIPPLER (6) – Felix KÖHLER 9.30 a.m.
DANG Qiu (3) – Kirill FADEEV followed by but not before 10.00
Alberto MINO (4) – Gerrit ENGEMANN followed by but not before 10.30
Fanbo MENG (7) – Tobias SÄLTZER followed by but not before 11.00
Dimitrij OVTCHAROV (1) – Nils HOHMEIER followed by but not before 11.30
Steffen MENGEL (5) – Kay STUMPER followed by but not before 12.00
Kanak JHA (2) – Tayler FOX followed by but not before 12.30
Cedric MEISSNER (8) – Thomas KEINATH followed by but not before 13.00
Tuesday June 9
Quarter-finals starting at 9.30 a.m.
Semifinal
Final 45 to 60 minutes following the 2nd semi-final
