OVTCHAROV and LIU Jia topping Top 16 invitation list

ETTU invited European elite players to the 2015 ITTF-Europe TOP-16 which will be held on the 6 – 8 February 2015 in Baku. Germany is the country with the most of the representatives – four men and four women. According to the December 2014 World Ranking

ETTU invited European elite players to the 2015 ITTF-Europe TOP-16 which will be held on the 6 – 8 February 2015 in Baku. Germany is the country with the most of the representatives – four men and four women.

According to the December 2014 World Ranking following players are nominated for the tournament: Dmitrij OVTCHAROV and Timo BOLL of Germany Marcos FREITAS of Portugal Vladimir SAMSONOV of Belarus Tiago APOLONIA of Portugal Patrick BAUM of Germany Panagiotis GIONIS of Greece Andrej GACINA of Croatia Robert GARDOS of Austria Bastian STEGER of Germany Michael MAZE of Denmark Adrian CRISAN of Romania Kristian KARLSSON of Sweden Simon GAUZY of France Adrien MATTENET of France Farhad ISMAYILOV of Azerbaijan. Substitutes are Stefen MENGEL (only to replace one from Germany) Joao MONTEIRO of Portugal Par GERELL of Sweden Paul DRINKHALL of England Patrick FRANZISKA (only to replace one from Germany)  Liam PITCHFORD of England Grigory VLASOV of Russia.

For Women’s Singles invited players are: LIU Jia of Austria Georgina POTA of Hungary Elizabeta SAMARA of Romania LI Jiao of Netherlands HU Melek of Turkey WU Jiaduo of Germany Viktoria PAVLOVICH of Belarus LI Jie of Netherlands Petrissa SOLJA of Germany Iveta VACENOVSKA of Czech Republic Kristin SILBEREISEN of Germany Irene IVANCAN of Germany Margaryta PESOTSKA of Ukraine LI Qian of Poland Daniela MONTEIRO DODEAN of Romania Maryam IMANOVA of Azerbaijan. Substitutes are: Sabine WINTER (only to replace one from Germany) Polina MIKHAILOVA of Russia Bernadette SZOCS of Romania Natalia PARTYKA of Poland Matilda EKHOLM of Sweden NI Xialian of Luxembourg and Britt EERLAND of Netherlands.

The deadline for the confirmation is 22nd December.

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