Media Guide Swedish Open Championships Eriksdalshallen , 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 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 , 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 , 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 , China - World Ranking 10, vann SOC 2013 , Germany - World Ranking 18 , - World Ranking 16 Andrej Gacina, Croatia - World Ranking 19 Stars at SOC Women

Liu Shiwen, China , China , 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 , Singapore , 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 , China - World Ranking 6 , 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 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, , has withdrawn from SOC because of injury.

World Ranking October 2014

Men (bolded players entered to SOC) Women (bolded players entered to SOC) 1 CHN 1 CHN 2 FAN Zhendong CHN 2 CHN 3 CHN 3 CHN 4 CHN 4 SIN 5 OVTCHAROV Dimitrij GER 5 ZHU Yuling CHN 6 WANG Hao CHN 6 WU Yang CHN 7 MIZUTANI Jun JPN 7 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 SIN 13 LIU Jia AUT 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 ^ 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 HKG 22 CHEN Chien-An TPE HU Limei CHN 23 CHO Eonrae KOR 24 ISHIGAKI Yuka JPN 24 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 GER 30 SHIONO Masato JPN 30 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 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 , 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 , China 2005 , 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 , China gium) (11-4, 11-1, 11-7, 9-11, 7-11, 11-4 vs , Hong- 2003 , China kong) (5-11, 9-11, 11-3, 11-6, 12-10, 11-7 vs , 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 , China (22-20, 17-21, 21-11, 21-15 vs Yoshie Takada, Japan) (21-12, 21-18, 21-13 vs Seiko Iseki, Japan) 1999 , 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 , China) 1998 , 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 , China 1997 , (17-21, 21-17, 21-7, 21-7 vs , China) (25-23, 19-21, 21-15, 21-13 vs Yan Sen, China) 1996 , China 1996 Jörgen Persson, Sweden (21-13, 19-21, 21-15, 21-12 vs Yang Ying, China) (21-13, 21-17, 21-16 vs , Sweden) 1995 , (Chire Koyama, Japan/f d , 1995 Vladimir Samsonov, Belarus China) (21-17, 23-21, 15-21, 21-18 vs Jan-Ove Waldner, Sweden) 1994 , China (Yang Ying, China) 1994 , China 1993 Csilla Batorfi, Hungary (, China) (21-14, 23-21, 19-21, 21-7 vs , Croatia) 1991 Deng Yaping, China (, China) 1993 , Polen 1989 Chen Jing, China (, China) (15-21, 21-18, 21-12, 19-21, 21-18 vs , England) 1987 Cho Jung Hui, Korea DPR (Chen Jing, China) 1991 , Sweden 1985 He Zhili, China (Chen Zihe, China) (11-21, 15-21, 21-19, 21-18, 21-18 vs Jean-M Saive, Belgium) 1983 Dai Lili, China (, China) 1989 Li Gun Sang, Korea DPR 1981 Chen Lili, China (Dai Lili, China) (21-15, 21-14, 21-23, 21-10 vs Yoo Nam Kyu, Korea Republic) 1980 , China (, China) 1987 Chen Zhibin, China (, Sweden) 1979 Ann-Christine Hellman, Sweden (Liu Yang, China) 1985 Andrzej Grubba, Polen (Erik Lindh, Sweden) 1978 Tong Ling, China (Ke Hsin-ai, China) 1983 Jan-Ove Waldner, Sweden (, China) 1977 Yang Ying, China (Tsao Yen-hua, China) 1981 , China (Dragutin Surbek, Yugoslavia) 1976 Pak Yung Sun, Korea DPR (Chu Hsiang-yung, China) 1980 Ulf Carlsson, Sweden (, China) 1975 Liu Hsiu-yen, China (Chang Te-ying, China) 1979 , Sweden (Xie Saike, China) 1974 Huang Hse-ping, China (Chang Li, China) 1978 Li Chen-shih, China (, China) 1973 Yu Chin-chia, China (Liu Hsin-yen, China) 1977 Lu Chi-wei, China (Lu Yuan-sheng, China) 1972 Ailesa Lee, Korea Republic (Hyun Sook Chung, Korea 1976 Kuo Yao-hua, China (Jacques Secretin, Frankrike) Republic) 1975 Stellan Bengtsson, Sweden (Kjell Johansson, Sweden) 1971 Birgitta Rådberg, Sweden (Chen Huai-ying, China) 1974 Dragutin Surbek, Yugoslavia (Anton Stipancic, 1970 Cheng Min-chih, China (Lin Hui-ching, China) Yugoslavia) 1973 Dragutin Surbek, Yugoslavia (Gabor Gergely, Hungary) 1972 Kjell Johansson, Sweden (Yu Yi-tse, China) 1971 Kjell Johansson, Sweden (Tiao Wen-yuan, China) 1970 Hans Alsér, Sweden (Stellan Bengtsson, Sweden) Contacts

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