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Media Guide Swedish Open Championships Eriksdalshallen Stockholm, Sweden 12/11-16/11, 2014 Press Officer: David Gustafsson, +46 767-770477 [email protected] www.socworldtour.se, www.svenskbordtennis.com Swedish Open Championships, SOC i bordtennis Introduction Welcome to the GAC GROUP 2014 ITTF World Tour, Major Series - Swedish Open Cham- pionships, SOC. Swedish Open Championships in Table Tennis was played for the first time in 1954 in Stockholm. Since the start SOC has been played every or every other year except between 2007 and 2011. SOC has been played in several different cities all around Sweden, from Malmö in the south to Umeå up north. Stockholm is the city that has been the host of most SOC and the tournament in 2014 will be the 44th time that SOC is organized. SOC is a part of the International Table Tennis Federation World Tour series with tournaments all over the world where the players compete for points to qualify to the World Tour Grand Fi- nals. There are three different tiers at the World Tour – Super Series, Major Series and Chal- lenge Series. SOC is a Major Serie tournament but has historically always had world class play- ers. The tournament is played over five days, two days of qualification and three days of the main draw. Key dates/Times 12 November, 9.00am - 9.00pm - Qualification Day 1 13 November, 9.00am - 9.00pm - Qualification Day 2 14 November, 10.00am - 9.00pm - Main Draw Day 1 15 November, 10.00am - 10.00pm - Main Draw Day 2 16 November, 10.00am - 5.00pm - Main Draw Day 3 Playing System Men’s singles: Main draw round of 64. 32 seeded players + 32 players coming from qualificat- ion. Qualification will be played in knock out matches. Women’s singles: Main draw round of 64. 32 seeded players + 32 players coming from qualifi- cation. Qualification will be played in knock out matches. Men’s doubles: Main draw round of 16. 8 seeded doubles + 8 doubles coming from qualificat- ion. Qualification will be played in knock out matches. Women’s doubles: Main draw round of 16. 8 seeded doubles + 8 doubles coming from qualifi- cation. Qualification will be played in knock out matches. U21 singles Women and Men: Main draw round of 32. 16 seeded players + 16 players coming from qualification. Qualification will be played in knock out matches. Stars at SOC Men Xu Xin, China Fan Zhendong, China Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Germany World Ranking: 1 World Ranking: 2 World Ranking: 5 Playing Style: Left handed penn- Playing Style: Right handed Playing Style: Right handed hands- hold, attack handshake, attack hake, attack Marcos Freitas, Portugal Koki Niwa, Japan Panagiotis Gionis, Grekland World Ranking: 12 World Ranking: 15 World Ranking: 21 Playing Style: Left handed hands- Playing Style: Left handedt Playing Style: Right handed hands- hake, attack handshake, attack hake, defense ...more stars from top 20 Wang Hao, China - World Ranking 6 Tiago Apolonia, Portugal - World Ranking 17 Yan An, China - World Ranking 10, vann SOC 2013 Bastian Steger, Germany - World Ranking 18 Tang Peng, Hong Kong - World Ranking 16 Andrej Gacina, Croatia - World Ranking 19 Stars at SOC Women Liu Shiwen, China Zhu Yuling, China Han Ying, Germany World Ranking: 2 World Ranking: 5 World Ranking: 8 Playing Style: Right handed Playing Style: Right handed Playing Style: Right handed handshake, attack handshake, attack handshake, defense Kasumi Ishikawa, Japan Yu Mengyu, Singapore Liu Jia, Austria World Ranking: 9 World Ranking: 11 World Ranking: 13 Playing Style: Left handed hands- Playing Style: Right handed Playing Style: Left handed hands- hake, attack handshake, attack hake, attack ...more stars from top 30 Wu Yang, China - World Ranking 6 Li Jiao, Holland - World Ranking 20 Ai Fukuhara, Japan - World Ranking 16 Yang Haeun, Korea Republic - World Ranking 21 Yu Fu, Portugal - World Ranking 18 Georgina Pota, Hungary - World Ranking 26 Swedish team at SOC Men Pär Gerell Kristian Karlsson Jens Lundquist World Ranking: 40 World Ranking: 50 World Ranking: 66 Club: Chartres ASTT (FRA) Club: Pontoise-Cergy (FRA) Club: Valliante Angers (FRA) Playing Style: Left handed hands- Playing Style: Left handed hands- Playing Style: Right handed hake, attack hake, attack handshake, attack ...and the rest of the team Jon Persson, Valliante Angers (FRA) World Ranking 103 Mattias Karlsson, Halmstad BTK World Ranking 169 Simon Arvidsson, BTK Rekord World Ranking 188 Mattias Översjö, Eslövs AI World Ranking 191 Fabian Åkerström, Lyckeby BTK World Ranking 193 Harald Andersson, Halmstad BTK World Ranking 198 Hampus Söderlund, Villeneuve (FRA) World Ranking 199 Hampus Nordberg, Söderhamns UIF World Ranking 202 Anton Källberg, Herne (TYS) World Ranking 282 Carl Ahlander Johansson, Halmstad BTK World Ranking 289 Elias Ranefur, Ängby SK World Ranking 307 Alexander Franzén, Falkenbergs BTK World Ranking 455 Henrik Johansson, IF Norcopensarna World Ranking 431 Johan Hagberg, IF Norcopensarna World Ranking 520 Viktor Görman, Österlen BTK World Ranking 436 Adam Blomqvist, Söderhamns UIF World Ranking 598 Simon Berglund, Eslövs AI World Ranking 505 Malte Möregårdh, BTK Rekord World Ranking 660 Anthony Tran, Söderhamns UIF no World Ranking Swedish team at SOC Women Matilda Ekholm Linda Bergström Daniela Moskovits World Ranking: 59 World Ranking: 232 World Ranking: 293 Club: SVNÖ Ströck (AUT) Club: Ängby SK Club: Team Mälarenergi BTK Playing Style: Left handed hands- Playing Style: Right handed Playing Style: Right handed hake, attack handshake, defense handshake, attack ...and the rest of the team Jennifer Jonsson, Spårvägens BTK World Ranking 384 Kristina Zetterström, Spårvägens BTK World Ranking 429 Sannamari Bölenius, Spårvägens BTK World Ranking 442 Michaela Karlsson, Team Mälarenergi BTK World Ranking 448 Tilda Johansson, Halmstad BTK World Ranking 456 Christina Källberg, BooSpåret BTK World Ranking 476 Ellen Holmsten, BooSpåret BTK World Ranking 535 Filippa Bergand, Åsa IF World Ranking 547 Swedish star, Li Fen, has withdrawn from SOC because of injury. World Ranking October 2014 Men (bolded players entered to SOC) Women (bolded players entered to SOC) 1 XU Xin CHN 1 DING Ning CHN 2 FAN Zhendong CHN 2 LIU Shiwen CHN 3 MA Long CHN 3 LI Xiaoxia CHN 4 ZHANG Jike CHN 4 FENG Tianwei SIN 5 OVTCHAROV Dimitrij GER 5 ZHU Yuling CHN 6 WANG Hao CHN 6 WU Yang CHN 7 MIZUTANI Jun JPN 7 CHEN Meng CHN 8 CHUANG Chih-Yuan TPE 8 HAN Ying ^ GER 9 BOLL Timo GER 9 ISHIKAWA Kasumi JPN 10 YAN An CHN 10 SEO Hyowon KOR 11 SAMSONOV Vladimir BLR 11 YU Mengyu SIN 12 FREITAS Marcos POR 12 LI Fen ^ SWE 13 GAO Ning SIN 13 LIU Jia AUT ZHOU Yu CHN 14 LEE Ho Ching HKG 14 BAUM Patrick GER 15 SAMARA Elizabeta ROU 15 NIWA Koki JPN 16 FUKUHARA Ai JPN 16 TANG Peng HKG 17 HIRANO Sayaka JPN JOO Saehyuk KOR 18 YU Fu ^ POR 17 APOLONIA Tiago POR 19 SHAN Xiaona ^ GER 18 STEGER Bastian GER 20 LI Jiao NED 19 GACINA Andrej CRO 21 YANG Haeun KOR 20 KIM Minseok KOR 22 PAVLOVICH Viktoria BLR 21 GIONIS Panagiotis GRE 23 DOO Hoi Kem HKG 22 CHEN Chien-An TPE HU Limei CHN 23 CHO Eonrae KOR 24 ISHIGAKI Yuka JPN 24 FANG Bo CHN 25 MORIZONO Misaki JPN 25 ZHAN Jian ^ SIN 26 POTA Georgina HUN 26 GARDOS Robert AUT LIU Fei CHN 27 MATSUDAIRA Kenta JPN 27 JEON Jihee ^ KOR 28 CRISAN Adrian ROU RI Myong Sun PRK MAZE Michael DEN 28 LIU Gaoyang CHN 29 MURAMATSU Yuto JPN 29 WU Jiaduo GER 30 SHIONO Masato JPN 30 LI Jie NED 31 MENGEL Steffen GER 31 POLCANOVA Sofia ^ AUT 32 JUNG Youngsik KOR 32 HU Melek TUR 33 KISHIKAWA Seiya JPN 33 NG Wing Nam HKG 34 LEE Jungwoo KOR JIANG Huajun HKG 35 JIANG Tianyi HKG 34 SOLJA Petrissa GER 35 LIN Ye ^ SIN Previous SOC Champions Men’s singles Women’s singles 2013 Yan An, China 2013 Chen Meng, China (12–10, 13–11, 8–11, 11–5, 9–11, 11–6 vs Fan (11–9, 11–9, 7–11, 11–7, 8–11, 11–3 vs Li Xiaodan, China) Zhendong, China ) 2011 Guo Yan, China 2011 Ma Long, China (11-4, 11-6, 11-6, 11-4 vs Liu Shiwen, China) (11-7, 14-12, 11-8, 11-7 vs Wang Hao, China) 2007 Li Xiaoxia, China 2007 Wang Hao, China (14-12, 11-9, 11-6, 11-7 vs Guo Yan, China) (2-11, 11-9, 11-6, 12-10, 11-8 vs Ma Long, China) 2005 Cao Zhen, China 2005 Timo Boll, Germany (11-7, 11-5, 6-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8 vs Tie Yana, Hongkong) (8-11, 11-7, 11-7, 10-12, 11-6, 13-11 vs Jean-Michel Saive, Bel- 2003 Zhang Yining, China gium) (11-4, 11-1, 11-7, 9-11, 7-11, 11-4 vs Song Ah Sim, Hong- 2003 Wang Liqin, China kong) (5-11, 9-11, 11-3, 11-6, 12-10, 11-7 vs Chen Qi, China) 2001 Guo Yan, China 2001 Wang Liqin, China (12-10, 7-11, 6-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-7 vs Tamara Boros, (8-11, 7-11, 11-7, 11-4, 16-14, 11-6 vs Yoo Seung Min, Croatia) Korea Republic) 2000 Zhang Yining, China 2000 Liu Guozheng, China (22-20, 17-21, 21-11, 21-15 vs Yoshie Takada, Japan) (21-12, 21-18, 21-13 vs Seiko Iseki, Japan) 1999 Sun Jin, China 1999 Wang Liqin, China (21-23, 21-19, 21-15, 12-21, 21-17 vs Yang Ying, China) (21-14, 21-15, 21-13 vs Kong Linghui, China) 1998 Qianhong Gotsch, Germany 1998 Damien Eloi, Frankrike (22-20, 21-15, 21-19 vs Sun Jin, China) (21-17, 21-12, 15-21,12-21, 21-19 vs Jörgen Persson, Sweden) 1997 Wang Hui, China 1997 Vladimir Samsonov, Belarus (17-21, 21-17, 21-7, 21-7 vs Cheng Hongxia, China) (25-23, 19-21, 21-15, 21-13 vs Yan Sen, China) 1996 Deng Yaping, China 1996 Jörgen Persson, Sweden (21-13, 19-21, 21-15, 21-12 vs Yang Ying, China) (21-13, 21-17, 21-16 vs Thomas von Scheele, Sweden) 1995 Chen Jing, Taiwan (Chire Koyama, Japan/f d He Zhili, 1995 Vladimir Samsonov, Belarus China) (21-17, 23-21, 15-21, 21-18 vs Jan-Ove Waldner, Sweden) 1994 Wang Nan, China (Yang Ying, China) 1994 Ding Song, China 1993 Csilla Batorfi, Hungary (Wang Chen,