ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals

Guardar

Ma Long the one to beat in London

Following the conclusion of the Swedish Open – ITTF Pro Tour, the qualifiers for the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Final have been released.

Ma Long and Guo Yan's recent form would place them as clear favorites, but with a collection of the finest players in the world present the competition will be fierce.

Hosted by the English Table Tennis Association in partnership with the ITTF at the ExCel Arena, London. This year's grand finale will also act as part of the 'Preparation for London 2012' series of events and provide the competitors first hand experience of the conditions they will face at the world's biggest quadrennial festival of sport next year.

Qualifiers - Doubles

Men

Women

01 – MA Lin / ZHANG Jike, CHN

GUO Yue / LI Xiaoxia, CHN

02 – MA Long / WANG Hao, CHN

FUJII Hiroko / WAKAMIYA Misako, JPN

03 – MATSUDAIRA Kenta / NIWA Koki, JPN

FUKUHARA Ai / ISHIKAWA Kasumi, JPN

04 – YANG Zi / ZHAN Jian^^, SIN

LI Jiawei / WANG Yuegu, SIN

05 – GARDOS Robert / HABESOHN Daniel, AUT

CHENG I-Ching / HUANG Yi-Hua, TPE

06 – JIANG Tianyi / TANG Peng, HKG

SEOK Ha Jung / YANG Ha Eun, KOR

07 – APOLONIA Tiago / MONTEIRO Joao, POR

JIANG Huajun / TIE Yana, HKG

08 – BAGGALEY Andrew / PITCHFORD Liam, ENG

PARKER Joanna / SIBLEY Kelly, ENG

RESERVE DOUBLES:

RESERVE DOUBLES:

09 - CHUANG Chih-Yuan / WU Chih-Chi, TPE

ISHIGAKI Yuka / YAMANASHI Yuri, JPN

10 – LEBESSON Emmanuel / MATTENET Adrien, FRA

SUN Bei Bei / YU Mengyu, SIN

11 – CHIANG Hung-Chieh / HUANG Sheng-Sheng,TPE

KANG Mi Soon / SONG Ma Eum, KOR

Note: To qualify for the Grand Finals in doubles, the same pair has to play at least 4 events.

Boys

Girls

01 – KIM Min Seok, KOR

01 – YANG Ha Eun, KOR

02 – SEO Hyun Deok, KOR

02 – KANG MI Soon^, KOR

03 – NIWA Koki, JPN

03 – ISHIKAWA Kasumi, JPN

04 – CHEN Chien-An, TPE

04 – LEE Ho Ching, HKG

05 – SHIBAEV Alexander, RUS

05 – MORIZONO Misaki, JPN

06 – LEE Sang Su, KOR

06 – SONG Ma Eum, KOR

07 – JUNG Young Sik, KOR

07 – CHENG I-Ching, TPE

08 – UEDA Jin, JPN

08 – JEON Ji Hee^, KOR

RESERVE PLAYERS:

RESERVE PLAYERS:

09 – JEONG Sang Eun, KOR

09 – PESOTSKA Margaryta, UKR

10 – CHEN Feng ^^, SIN

10 – NG Wing Nam, HKG

11 – FRANZISKA Patrick, GER

11 – TASHIRO Saki, JPN

Note: To qualify for the Grand Finals in U21, the players have to attend 4 events in at least 2 continents.

Asian Player Eminent

Asia is the dominant force; of the 16 players on each of the Men's and Women's Singles lists, 14 are from Asia; only two are from Europe and of course in each event one player is present not by having achieved on the ITTF Pro Tour in 2011 but because they are from England.

The host nation is permitted one place in the events; 21 year old Paul Drinkhall and 24 year old Joanna Parker are the English selections for the respective Men's and Women's Singles competitions.

Germans Qualify

Only one other player in each of the events is not from Asia and they are both from Germany; in the Men's Singles event it is Dimitrij Ovtcharov, in the counterpart Women's Singles competition it is Wu Jiaduo.

Austria and Portugal

Meanwhile, in the doubles competitions the pain is slightly less for the men with two European pairs joining the English nomination of Andrew Baggaley and Liam Pitchford.

Austria's Robert Gardos and Daniel Habesohn plus the Portuguese partnership comprising Tiago Apolonia and João Monteio appear in the line-up.

Women's Doubles

However, for the women, it is seven pairs from Asia who join England's Joanna Parker and Kelly Sibley; whilst in the Under 21 events, where there is no place reserved for the host nation, the might of Asia is once more to the fore.

Under 21 Events

Russia's Alexander Shibaev is the only European representative amongst the top eight names on the Under 21 Men's Singles invitation list, for the young ladies, the Asian domination is total.

Present in Force

China, Japan, Korea, Chinese Taipei and Singapore will be on duty in force; for the European countries present gaining a place on the medal podium at the end of proceedings is daunting task.

For more information, contact: rpettit@ittf.com

As a service to our readers, Around the Rings will provide verbatim texts of selected press releases issued by Olympic-related organizations, federations, businesses and sponsors.

These press releases appear as sent to Around the Rings and are not edited for spelling, grammar or punctuation.

Your complete source of news about the Olympics is www.aroundtherings.com, for subscribers only.

Guardar

Últimas Noticias

Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons

Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left the feeling that the Italian and the Spaniard will shape the great duel that came to help us through the duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era.
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons

Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024

She is the third in her sport and the seventh athlete to achieve it in the same edition; in Santiago 2023 she was the first athlete with disabilities to compete at the Pan American level and won a medal.
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024

Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris

Argentinian Rodrigo Isgró received a five-game suspension for an indiscipline in the circuit’s decisive clash that would exclude him until the final or the bronze match; the Federation will seek to make the appeal successful.
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris

Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years

The Kenyan received the maximum sanction for irregularities in his biological passport and the Court considered that he was part of a system of “deliberate and sophisticated doping” to improve his performance. He will lose his record and the bronze medal at the Doha World Cup.
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years

Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”

The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case of the 23 positive controls before the Tokyo Games that were announced a few weeks ago and shook the swimming world. “I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low,” he said.
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”