Media Guide Swedish Open Championships Eriksdalshallen Stockholm, Sweden 12/11-16/11, 2014 Press Officer: David Gustafsson, +46 767-770477 david.gustafsson@svenskbordtennis.com 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 Championships, 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 Finals. There are three different tiers at the World Tour Super Series, Major Series and Challenge Series. SOC is a Major Serie tournament but has historically always had world class players. 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 qualification. Qualification will be played in knock out matches. Women s singles: Main draw round of 64. 32 seeded players + 32 players coming from qualification. Qualification will be played in knock out matches. Men s doubles: Main draw round of 16. 8 seeded doubles + 8 doubles coming from qualification. Qualification will be played in knock out matches. Women s doubles: Main draw round of 16. 8 seeded doubles + 8 doubles coming from qualification. 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 World Ranking: 1 Playing Style: Left handed pennhold, Fan Zhendong, China World Ranking: 2 handshake, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, Germany World Ranking: 5 handshake, Marcos Freitas, Portugal World Ranking: 12 Koki Niwa, Japan World Ranking: 15 Playing Style: Left handedt handshake, Panagiotis Gionis, Grekland World Ranking: 21 handshake, defense...more stars from top 20 Wang Hao, China - World Ranking 6 Yan An, China - World Ranking 10, vann SOC 2013 Tang Peng, Hong Kong - World Ranking 16 Tiago Apolonia, Portugal - World Ranking 17 Bastian Steger, Germany - World Ranking 18 Andrej Gacina, Croatia - World Ranking 19
Stars at SOC Women Liu Shiwen, China World Ranking: 2 handshake, Zhu Yuling, China World Ranking: 5 handshake, Han Ying, Germany World Ranking: 8 handshake, defense Kasumi Ishikawa, Japan World Ranking: 9 Yu Mengyu, Singapore World Ranking: 11 handshake, Liu Jia, Austria World Ranking: 13...more stars from top 30 Wu Yang, China - World Ranking 6 Ai Fukuhara, Japan - World Ranking 16 Yu Fu, Portugal - World Ranking 18 Li Jiao, Holland - World Ranking 20 Yang Haeun, Korea Republic - World Ranking 21 Georgina Pota, Hungary - World Ranking 26
Swedish team at SOC Men Pär Gerell World Ranking: 40 Club: Chartres ASTT (FRA) Kristian Karlsson World Ranking: 50 Club: Pontoise-Cergy (FRA) Jens Lundquist World Ranking: 66 Club: Valliante Angers (FRA) handshake,...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 World Ranking: 59 Club: SVNÖ Ströck (AUT) Linda Bergström World Ranking: 232 Club: Ängby SK handshake, defense Daniela Moskovits World Ranking: 293 Club: Team Mälarenergi BTK handshake,...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) 1 XU Xin CHN 2 FAN Zhendong CHN 3 MA Long CHN 4 ZHANG Jike CHN 5 OVTCHAROV Dimitrij GER 6 WANG Hao CHN 7 MIZUTANI Jun JPN 8 CHUANG Chih-Yuan TPE 9 BOLL Timo GER 10 YAN An CHN 11 SAMSONOV Vladimir BLR 12 FREITAS Marcos POR 13 GAO Ning SIN ZHOU Yu CHN 14 BAUM Patrick GER 15 NIWA Koki JPN 16 TANG Peng HKG JOO Saehyuk KOR 17 APOLONIA Tiago POR 18 STEGER Bastian GER 19 GACINA Andrej CRO 20 KIM Minseok KOR 21 GIONIS Panagiotis GRE 22 CHEN Chien-An TPE 23 CHO Eonrae KOR 24 FANG Bo CHN 25 ZHAN Jian ^ SIN 26 GARDOS Robert AUT 27 MATSUDAIRA Kenta JPN 28 CRISAN Adrian ROU MAZE Michael DEN 29 MURAMATSU Yuto JPN 30 SHIONO Masato JPN 31 MENGEL Steffen GER 32 JUNG Youngsik KOR 33 KISHIKAWA Seiya JPN 34 LEE Jungwoo KOR 35 JIANG Tianyi HKG Women (bolded players entered to SOC) 1 DING Ning CHN 2 LIU Shiwen CHN 3 LI Xiaoxia CHN 4 FENG Tianwei SIN 5 ZHU Yuling CHN 6 WU Yang CHN 7 CHEN Meng CHN 8 HAN Ying ^ GER 9 ISHIKAWA Kasumi JPN 10 SEO Hyowon KOR 11 YU Mengyu SIN 12 LI Fen ^ SWE 13 LIU Jia AUT 14 LEE Ho Ching HKG 15 SAMARA Elizabeta ROU 16 FUKUHARA Ai JPN 17 HIRANO Sayaka JPN 18 YU Fu ^ POR 19 SHAN Xiaona ^ GER 20 LI Jiao NED 21 YANG Haeun KOR 22 PAVLOVICH Viktoria BLR 23 DOO Hoi Kem HKG HU Limei CHN 24 ISHIGAKI Yuka JPN 25 MORIZONO Misaki JPN 26 POTA Georgina HUN LIU Fei CHN 27 JEON Jihee ^ KOR RI Myong Sun PRK 28 LIU Gaoyang CHN 29 WU Jiaduo GER 30 LI Jie NED 31 POLCANOVA Sofia ^ AUT 32 HU Melek TUR 33 NG Wing Nam HKG JIANG Huajun HKG 34 SOLJA Petrissa GER 35 LIN Ye ^ SIN
Previous SOC Champions Men s singles 2013 Yan An, China (12 10, 13 11, 8 11, 11 5, 9 11, 11 6 vs Fan Zhendong, China ) 2011 Ma Long, China (11-7, 14-12, 11-8, 11-7 vs Wang Hao, China) 2007 Wang Hao, China (2-11, 11-9, 11-6, 12-10, 11-8 vs Ma Long, China) 2005 Timo Boll, Germany (8-11, 11-7, 11-7, 10-12, 11-6, 13-11 vs Jean-Michel Saive, Belgium) 2003 Wang Liqin, China (5-11, 9-11, 11-3, 11-6, 12-10, 11-7 vs Chen Qi, China) 2001 Wang Liqin, China (8-11, 7-11, 11-7, 11-4, 16-14, 11-6 vs Yoo Seung Min, Korea Republic) 2000 Liu Guozheng, China (21-12, 21-18, 21-13 vs Seiko Iseki, Japan) 1999 Wang Liqin, China (21-14, 21-15, 21-13 vs Kong Linghui, China) 1998 Damien Eloi, Frankrike (21-17, 21-12, 15-21,12-21, 21-19 vs Jörgen Persson, Sweden) 1997 Vladimir Samsonov, Belarus (25-23, 19-21, 21-15, 21-13 vs Yan Sen, China) 1996 Jörgen Persson, Sweden (21-13, 21-17, 21-16 vs Thomas von Scheele, Sweden) 1995 Vladimir Samsonov, Belarus (21-17, 23-21, 15-21, 21-18 vs Jan-Ove Waldner, Sweden) 1994 Ding Song, China (21-14, 23-21, 19-21, 21-7 vs Zoran Primorac, Croatia) 1993 Andrzej Grubba, Polen (15-21, 21-18, 21-12, 19-21, 21-18 vs Chen Xinhua, England) 1991 Mikael Appelgren, Sweden (11-21, 15-21, 21-19, 21-18, 21-18 vs Jean-M Saive, Belgium) 1989 Li Gun Sang, Korea DPR (21-15, 21-14, 21-23, 21-10 vs Yoo Nam Kyu, Korea Republic) 1987 Chen Zhibin, China (Erik Lindh, Sweden) 1985 Andrzej Grubba, Polen (Erik Lindh, Sweden) 1983 Jan-Ove Waldner, Sweden (Xie Saike, China) 1981 Jiang Jialiang, China (Dragutin Surbek, Yugoslavia) 1980 Ulf Carlsson, Sweden (Guo Yuehua, China) 1979 Stellan Bengtsson, Sweden (Xie Saike, China) 1978 Li Chen-shih, China (Huang Liang, China) 1977 Lu Chi-wei, China (Lu Yuan-sheng, China) 1976 Kuo Yao-hua, China (Jacques Secretin, Frankrike) 1975 Stellan Bengtsson, Sweden (Kjell Johansson, Sweden) 1974 Dragutin Surbek, Yugoslavia (Anton Stipancic, 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) Women s singles 2013 Chen Meng, China (11 9, 11 9, 7 11, 11 7, 8 11, 11 3 vs Li Xiaodan, China) 2011 Guo Yan, China (11-4, 11-6, 11-6, 11-4 vs Liu Shiwen, China) 2007 Li Xiaoxia, China (14-12, 11-9, 11-6, 11-7 vs Guo Yan, China) 2005 Cao Zhen, China (11-7, 11-5, 6-11, 8-11, 11-7, 11-8 vs Tie Yana, Hongkong) 2003 Zhang Yining, China (11-4, 11-1, 11-7, 9-11, 7-11, 11-4 vs Song Ah Sim, Hongkong) 2001 Guo Yan, China (12-10, 7-11, 6-11, 9-11, 11-6, 11-9, 11-7 vs Tamara Boros, Croatia) 2000 Zhang Yining, China (22-20, 17-21, 21-11, 21-15 vs Yoshie Takada, Japan) 1999 Sun Jin, China (21-23, 21-19, 21-15, 12-21, 21-17 vs Yang Ying, China) 1998 Qianhong Gotsch, Germany (22-20, 21-15, 21-19 vs Sun Jin, China) 1997 Wang Hui, China (17-21, 21-17, 21-7, 21-7 vs Cheng Hongxia, China) 1996 Deng Yaping, China (21-13, 19-21, 21-15, 21-12 vs Yang Ying, China) 1995 Chen Jing, Taiwan (Chire Koyama, Japan/f d He Zhili, China) 1994 Wang Nan, China (Yang Ying, China) 1993 Csilla Batorfi, Hungary (Wang Chen, China) 1991 Deng Yaping, China (Gao Jun, China) 1989 Chen Jing, China (Qiao Hong, China) 1987 Cho Jung Hui, Korea DPR (Chen Jing, China) 1985 He Zhili, China (Chen Zihe, China) 1983 Dai Lili, China (Tong Ling, China) 1981 Chen Lili, China (Dai Lili, China) 1980 Cao Yanhua, China (Zhang Deying, China) 1979 Ann-Christine Hellman, Sweden (Liu Yang, China) 1978 Tong Ling, China (Ke Hsin-ai, China) 1977 Yang Ying, China (Tsao Yen-hua, China) 1976 Pak Yung Sun, Korea DPR (Chu Hsiang-yung, China) 1975 Liu Hsiu-yen, China (Chang Te-ying, China) 1974 Huang Hse-ping, China (Chang Li, China) 1973 Yu Chin-chia, China (Liu Hsin-yen, China) 1972 Ailesa Lee, Korea Republic (Hyun Sook Chung, Korea Republic) 1971 Birgitta Rådberg, Sweden (Chen Huai-ying, China) 1970 Cheng Min-chih, China (Lin Hui-ching, China)
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