Ma Long, Ding Ning top seeds at the Polish World Tour Table Tennis tournament at Warsaw

The GAC Group 2015 ITTF World Tour, Polish Open (Major), will be held from 21 Oct 2015 - 25 Oct 2015 at Warsaw, Poland.

The tournament assumes importance as it will be an important opportunity for players to qualify for the prestigious, season-ending Grand finals.

World Champion and World No. 1 is the top seed in the Men's section while Ding Ning is heading the seeding list on the Women's side.

Other stars who are participating are Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Zhang Jike, Mizutani, Ovtcharov, Liu Shiwen, Zhu Yuling, Li Xiaoxia, Ai Fukuhara and others.

Semi final line up at the European Table Tennis Championships 2015

The semi final lineup at the European Table Tennis Championships has been decided.

In the Women's singles, Polina Mikhailova takes on Elizabeta Samara in the first semi final, followed by Li Jie who faces Fu Yu of Portugal.

In the Men's singles, top seed Dimitrij Ovtcharov meets Tiago Apolonia while Par Gerell will face Marcos Freitas.

Photo by courtesy of the ITTF.

Liebherr Men's World Cup Table Tennis tournament at Halmstad, Sweden

The Invitational Men's World Cup Table Tennis tournament will be held from October 16-18 in Sweden.

Player list from official Web site, courtesy of the ITTF.

1	HENZELL William   AUS	103555	M			X				03/23/1982	09/10/2015 8:44:09 AM
2	GARDOS Robert   AUT	102968	M			X				01/16/1979	09/10/2015 8:46:11 AM
3	TSUBOI Gustavo   BRA	109581	M			X				05/31/1985	09/10/2015 8:43:37 AM
4	FAN Zhendong   CHN	121404	M			X				01/22/1997	09/10/2015 8:47:57 AM
5	MA Long   CHN	105649	M			X				10/20/1988	09/10/2015 8:35:00 AM
6	ASSAR Omar   EGY	100696	M			X				07/22/1991	09/10/2015 8:43:23 AM
7	GAUZY Simon   FRA	112062	M			X				10/25/1994	09/10/2015 8:45:34 AM
8	OVTCHAROV Dimitrij   GER	107028	M			X				09/02/1988	09/10/2015 8:44:21 AM
9	GIONIS Panagiotis   GRE	103107	M			X				01/07/1980	09/10/2015 8:45:03 AM
10	TANG Peng   HKG	109253	M			X				02/04/1981	09/10/2015 8:45:16 AM
11	ACHANTA Sharath Kamal   IND	104314	M			X				07/12/1982	09/10/2015 8:46:28 AM
12	NIWA Koki   JPN	110729	M			X				10/10/1994	09/10/2015 8:46:46 AM
13	MIZUTANI Jun   JPN	106195	M			X				06/09/1989	09/10/2015 8:44:35 AM
14	APOLONIA Tiago   POR	100621	M			X				07/28/1986	09/10/2015 8:45:52 AM
15	FREITAS Marcos   POR	102841	M			X				04/08/1988	09/10/2015 8:44:49 AM
16	GAO Ning   SIN	102943	M			X				10/11/1982	09/10/2015 8:47:03 AM
17	KARLSSON Kristian   SWE	104379	M			X				08/06/1991	09/10/2015 8:47:22 AM
18	KALLBERG Anton   SWE	116853	M			X				08/17/1997	09/10/2015 8:47:39 AM
19	CHUANG Chih-Yuan   TPE	101820	M			X				04/02/1981	09/10/2015 8:48:22 AM
20	BUTLER Jimmy   USA	101407	M			X				02/15/1971	09/10/2015 8:43:53 AM

Timo stars for Borussia in the first leg of the European Champions League

Sharath Kamal is nursing an injury but his team, Borussia Dusseldorf won the first leg of the European Champions League 3-1. The hero was Timo Boll who beat Ovtcharov and Samsonov.

Borussia Dusseldorf – Fakel Gazproma Orenburg 3:1

Timo BOLL – Vladimir SAMSONOV 3:0 (11:3, 11:7, 14:12)
Patrick FRANZISKA – Dimitrij OVTCHAROV 1:3 (2:11, 11:6, 8:11, 7:11)
Panagiotis GIONIS – Alexey SMIRNOV 3:1 (11:3, 11:5, 8:11, 11:4)
Timo BOLL – Dimitrij OVTCHAROV 3:2 (7:11, 11:7, 8:11, 11:7, 12:10)

Photo courtesy Borussia

Achanta Sharath Kamal and team reach European Champions League (ECL) finals

Sharath Kamal, Timo Boll and Patrick Franziska clicked as a team to reach the finals of the European Champions (Table Tennis) League.

Borussia Düsseldorf won 3-1 against Chartres ASTT. Timo won two points for the top German team while Sharath again showed his class by beating veteran Damien Eloi. Chartres was unlucky that Gao Ning was unable to play due to injury.

Borussia will now fight for the title against Dimitrij Ovtcharov and team.

Editor

Photo: teamusa.org

Xu Xin wins the World Cup Table Tennis tournament at Belgium

Top seed Xu Xin won the World Cup Table Tennis tournament at Verviers, Belgium. In the finals, he beat veteran Vladimir Samsonov 11-6, 12-14, 11-8, 11-9,11-7.

In the semi finals, Xu Xin beat a fighting Ovtcharov 4-3, while Samsonov beat Timo Boll, who is trying to come back from injuries.





Ovtcharov beat Timo Boll to bag the third place.

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