Kim VERMAAS booked her place for Nanjing

March 5, 2014
12:00 am
European Olympic Singles Qualification

Thailand’s Padasak TANVIRIYAVECHUL and Kim VERMAAS of the Netherlands emerged successful in the respective Boys’ Singles and Girls’ Singles events at the 2014 Road to Nanjing Series – Europe tournament in the French city of Metz. They reserved a place in

They reserved a place in the forthcoming Youth Olympic Games to be staged later this year in the Chinese city of Nanjing; the table tennis events will be held from Sunday 17th to Saturday 23rd August.

Players Qualified
World Youth Olympic Games Qualification Tournament (22-23 January in Vila Nova de Gaia Portugal)
Boys: Adam SZUDI (Hungary) Kilian ORT (Germany) David REITSPIES (Czech Republic) YANG Heng-Wei (Chinese Taipei)
Girls: DOO Hoi Kem (Hong Kong) CHIU Ssu-Hua (Chinese Taipei) Adina DIACONU (Romania) Miyu KATO (Japan)

World Ranking (February 2014)
Boys: Yuto MURAMATSU (Japan) Hugo CALDERANO (Brazil) KIM Minhyeok (Korea)
Girls: Nina MITTELHAM (Germany) Lily ZHANG (U.S.A.) Tamolwan KHEKHUAN (Thailand)

European Youth Olympic Games Qualification Tournament (9th – 11th February Hodonin Czech Republic)
Boys: Can AKKUZU (France) Patryk ZATOWKA (Poland) Diogo CHEN (Portugal) Tomislav PUCAR (Croatia)
Girls: Natalia BAJOR (Poland) Maria MALANINA (Russia) Nicole TROSMAN (Israel) Audrey ZARIF (France)

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