LEVENKO and LUNG secure places for Nanjing YOG

April 9, 2014
12:00 am
European Olympic Singles Qualification

Austria’s Andreas LEVENKO and Belgium’s Lisa LUNG emerged as the successful players at the 2014 Road to Nanjing Series – North America tournament staged in Mississauga Canada. In the final Andreas LEVENKO beat Carl AHLANDER-JOHANSSON in a full distance s

Austria’s Andreas LEVENKO and Belgium’s Lisa LUNG emerged as the successful players at the 2014 Road to Nanjing Series – North America tournament staged in Mississauga Canada.

In the final Andreas LEVENKO beat Carl AHLANDER-JOHANSSON in a full distance seven games duel; whilst Lisa Lung defeated Hungary’s Leila IMRE in straight games to gain her invitation card for Nanjing.

LEVENKO overcame Denmark’s Claus NEILSEN in semi final. In the Girls’ Singles event Lisa LUNG who earlier this year had won the Cadet Girls’ Singles title at the Czech Junior and Cadet Open was tested in the penultimate round; she needed six games to overcome Italy’s Giorgia PICCOLIN.

Players qualified for the Nanjing so far after six events:

Boys: Adam SZUDI (HUN) Killian ORT (GER) David REITSPIES (CZE) YANG Heng Wei (TPE) Can AKKUZU (FRA) Patryk YATOWKA (POL) Diogo CHEN (POR) Tomislav PUCAR (CRO) Yuto MURAMATSU (JPN) Hugo CALDERANO (BRA) KIM Minhyeok (KOR) Padask TANVIRIYAVECHAKUL (THA) Kirill GERASSIMENKO (KAZ) Brian AFANDOR (PUR) fermin TENTI (ARG).

Girls: DOO Hoi Kem (HKG) CHIU Ssu Hua (TPE) Adina DIACONU (ROU) Miyu KATO (JPN) Natalia BAJOR (POL) Maria MALANINA (RUS) Nicole TROSMAN (ISR) Audrey ZARIF (FRA) Nina MITTELHAM (GER) ZHANG Lily (USA) Tamolwan KHETKHUAN (THA) Kim VERMAAS (NED) Seri PARK (Korea) Gremlis ARVELO (VEN) Maria LORENZOTTI (URU).

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