Fight for the place at YOG World Qualification Tournament

November 5, 2013
12:00 am
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At the forthcoming JOOLA 2013 Hungarian Junior and Cadet Open a Premium Tournament and the concluding tournament on this year’s ITTF Junior Circuit will play 356 players. Play starts in Szombathely on Wednesday 6th November and concludes on Sunday

In Szombathely there are two stakes in game: a place in the ITTF Junior Circuit Finals and a place in the Youth Olympic Games World Qualification Tournament both to be staged consecutively in Vilanova de Gaia Portugal in January 2014.

Not only that number of players are impressive but the quality is also high. The top three names in the ITTF Junior Boys’ Standing will be present in Szombathely. Taipei’s YANG Heng-Wei who won in Egypt and Canada and also heads the Road to Nanjing Standings is named amongst the starters as are the next in line colleague LIAO Chen-Ting and Hong Kong’s HUNG Ka Tak.

Paul GAUZY of France who won in the Czech Republic is named on the impressive list of entries as are Thailand’s Padasak TANVIRIYAVECHAKUL Hungary’s Adam SZUDI and Egypt’s Shady MAGDY.

For the girls the list is impressive with winners in 2013 in action. Hong Kong’s LAM Yee Lok currently in second place on the ITTF Junior Girls’ Standings is amongst the list of competitors as is her colleague DOO Hoi Kem presently in third place on the Road to Nanjing Standings; LAM Yee Lok won in Italy DOO Hoi Kem succeeded in Egypt.

Germany’s Nina MITTELHAM Romania’s Adina DIACONU and Charlotte CAREY of Wales will also play.

The national associations present are: Angola Austria Belgium Belarus Canada Chinese Taipei Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Egypt England Finland France Germany Guyana Hong Kong Hungary Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jordan Japan Kazakhstan Laos Luxembourg Netherlands Nigeria Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Singapore Slovenia Serbia Spain Switzerland Slovak Republic Sweden Thailand Ukraine Uruguay United States and Wales.

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