Countdown to German Open in Magdeburg

March 24, 2014
12:00 am
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The last Super Series tournament before the start of the ZEN-NOH 2014 World Table Tennis Championships (28 April – 5 May) will be held in Magdeburg. GAC Group 2014 ITTF World Tour German Open starts on Wednesday and will be most important test for the s

“It will be real testing for all the participants. I hope I will play at the highest level already at German open. I prefer to be ready there instead to travel to Japan with any question mark. It is always very important tournament for me ” said Timo BOLL.

Nearly 300 male and female players from 41 nations are listed for this year’s edition from China to Peru.

Eight -time world champion and three -time Olympic finalist in singles WANG Hao from China is at that list as well as Taiwan’s reigning double world champions CHEN Chien-An/CHUANG Chih -Yuan . The men’s seeding at the German Open is led by WANG Hao followed by Dimitrij OVTCHAROV and Timo BOLL. Japan will be represented Jun MIZUTANI ( World ranking: 11) and Koki NIWA (15). The highest ranked player in Wopmen’s Singles Event is SEO Hyowon of South Korea. For germany will play HAN Ying and ex- European Champion WU Jiaduo.

Belarus players Vladimir SAMSONOV and Viktoria PAVLOVICH will play European Champion Li Fen from Sweden will be present alongside crowd’s favorite name / Michael MAZE.

The German Open by numbers

49 Edition of the German Open
Participants: 292 male and female players from 41 nations
25 German: 13 men and 12 women

Men’s Singles: 1 WANG Hao ( CHN) 2 Dimitrij OVTCHAROV 3 Timo BOLL 10 Bastian STEGER 11 Patrick BAUM 26 Patrick FRANZISKA Women’s Singles : 1 Hyowon SEO (KOR ) 2 LI Jiao (NED) 4 HAN Ying 11 WU Jiaduo 13 SHAN Xiaona 18 Kristin SILBERAISEN 22 Petrissa SOLJA Prize money: 140 000 U.S. dollars (about 100 000 euros ) Single: 17 000 (12 000) double: $ 5 000 (3 600) A total of 46 referees from eleven nations

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