Hungary Open: Daniel GORAK in semis

January 31, 2015
12:00 am
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Poland’s Daniel GORAK will play in the semi final of the GAC Group 2015 ITTF World Tour Hungary Open in Budapest. In the quarterfinal he overcame KOU Lei of Ukraine in straight games. CHEN Chien-An of Taipei will also play in the semis. Player from Taipe

Poland’s Daniel GORAK will play in the semi final of the GAC Group 2015 ITTF World Tour Hungary Open in Budapest. In the quarterfinal he overcame KOU Lei of Ukraine in straight games.

CHEN Chien-An of Taipei will also play in the semis. Player from Taipei overcame Joao GERALDO of Portugal on his way to semis. However Portugal’s teenager did not go without the fight. He stretched CHEN to full distance after he caused the biggest upset in the third round. The 19 year old beat Austria’s Stefan FEGERL the no.8 seed in five games.

Tomorrow JEONG Sangeun of Korea will try to stop CHEN. GORAK will meet JIANG Tianyi of Hong Kong. JIANG beat Japan’s Kenji MATSUDAIRA.

In Women’s singles event Misako WAKAMIYA of Japan will meet her compatriot Yuka ISHIGAKI. Misako beat LIU Jia of Austria in quarters whilst Yuka overcame Petrissa SOLJA of Germany. After victory over YU Fu of Portugal Hong Kong’s LEE Ho Ching will meet Sayaka HIRANO. Japan’s player overcame LI Jie of Netherlands.

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