Europe Youth Top-10 | 3 Aug 2017
Europe Youth Top 10 Participants Announced: DIACONU, PLETEA, ABRAAMIAN and SIDORENKO toppingg the list
Photo: Henk HOMMES
The 2017 Europe Youth Top 10 will be held in Worcester, England (8-10th September)
Participants of the 2017 Europe Youth Top 10 in Worcester, England (8-10th September) are announced with many familiar names from the 2016 edition held in Prague, Czech Republic.
Cristian PLETEA from Romania tops Junior Boys list, followed by Greek Ioannis SGOUROPOULOS and Romania`s Rares SIPOS. Last year in Prague PLETEA and SIPOS finished fifth and sixth respectively, having both 5-4 score. The 2016 champion was Czech Republic`s Tomas POLANSKY (9-0).
After last year`s astonishing ending of Junior Girls event, Romanian duo Andrea DRAGOMAN and Adina DIACONU will try to win the title. They finished second and third respectively in Prague, behind Audrey ZARIF, in spite of having the same score (8-1) like French girl. Now DIACONU is named as No.1 seed, while DRAGOMAN will be No. 4.
The 2016 winner and runner-up, Truls MOREGARD from Sweden and Vladimir SIDORENKO from Russia, are toping 2017 list. Both MOREGARD (now No. 2 seed) and SIDORENKO (No. 1 like last year) started the ultimate round of 2016 edition with seven wins and one defeat. After seven games the well-deserved victory went to Swede.
Regarding Cadet Girls event, actual No. 2 seed Ekaterina ZIRONOVA from Russia achieved biggest result out of all 10 participants last year. She finished third (5-4 score) behind her compatriot Anastasia KOLISH (7-2) and Romania`s Tania PLAIAN (6-3). Russia`s Elizabet ABRAAMIAN now tops the list of Cadet Girls event.
JUNIOR BOYS
1 Cristian PLETEA ROU
2 Ioannis SGOUROPOULOS GRE
3 Rares SIPOS ROU
4 Irvin BERTRAND FRA
5 Artur ABUSEV RUS
6 Xinyu YANG AZE
7 Tom JARVIS ENG
8 Denis IVONIN RUS
9 Tobias HIPPLER GER
10 Florian CNUDDE BEL
JUNIOR BOYS SUBSTITUTES
1 Gerrit ENGEMANN GER
2 Bastien REMBERT FRA
3 Matteo MUTTI ITA
4 Jules ROLLAND FRA
5 Remi MENAND FRA
6 Jiri MARTINKO CZE
JUNIOR GIRLS
1 Adina DIACONU ROU
2 JING Ning AZE
3 Mariia TAILAKOVA RUS
4 Andreea DRAGOMAN ROU
5 Izabela LUPULESKU SRB
6 Lisa LUNG BEL
7 Anastasia KOLISH RUS
8 Daria TRIGOLOS BLR
9 Xuan ZHANG ESP
10 Denise PAYET (Host) ENG
JUNIOR GIRLS SUBSTITUTES
1 Solomiya BRATEYKO UKR
2 Luisa SAEGER GER
3 Tania PLAIAN ROU
4 Kristina KAZANTSEVA RUS
5 Andrea PAVLOVIC CRO
6 Jennie WOLF GER
CADET BOYS
1 Vladimir SIDORENKO RUS
2 Truls MOREGARD SWE
3 Maksim GREBNEV RUS
4 Bilal HAMACHE FRA
5 Kay STUMPER GER
6 Csaba ANDRAS HUN
7 Dorian ZHENG FRA
8 Samuel KULCZYCKI POL
9 Olav KOSOLOSKY BEL
10 Ethan WALSH (Host) ENG
CADET BOYS SUBSTITUTES
1 Martin FRIIS SWE
2 Daniel RINDERER GER
3 Jules CAVAILLE FRA
4 John OYEBODE ITA
5 Gleb IVANOV RUS
6 Felix WETZEL GER
CADET GIRLS
1 Elizabet ABRAAMIAN RUS
2 Ekaterina ZIRONOVA RUS
3 Elena ZAHARIA ROU
4 Jamila LAURENTI ITA
5 Prithika PAVADE FRA
6 Natalia MALININA RUS
7 Arina SLAUTINA RUS
8 Natalia BRINZA MDA
9 Camille LUTZ FRA
10 Charlotte BARDSLEY (Host) ENG
CADET GIRLS SUBSTITUTIES
1 Sophia KLEE GER
2 Isa COK FRA
3 Wenna TU GER
4 Ozge YILMAZ TUR
5 Anastasia BONDAREVA GER
6 Lou FRETE FRA