Wong Chun Ting at 2019 ITTF World Tour Austrian Open
Hong Kong’s Wong Chung Ting is likely to benefit from the suspension of the China’s Wang Chuqin by gaining a spot in the ITTF World Tour Grand Final in Zhengzhou next month.
Chun Ting only managed to finish 17th in the overall standings, just one short of an automatic qualifying spot. But with Chuqin, who is in seventh spot, suspended for indiscipline, Chun Ting is almost certain of taking the vacant spot.
Chuqiin was suspended after he expressed his anger by slamming his racket on the table, after losing his match against compatriot Zhao Zihao in the preliminary rounds of the recent Austrian Open.
He was ordered home and suspended until February next year. Unless the Chinese authorities gives him a reprieve, Chun Ting would start in the year ending tournament in Zhengzhao.
His win over Chuqin and subsequent progress in the tournament allowed Zihao to book a place in the Grand Finals, that seemed too far off before Austria.
Of the 16 qualifiers for the men’s singles, seven would be Chinese players, including the top four ranked qualifiers – Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, Lin Gaoyuan and veteran Ma Long. The highest ranked non-Chinese qualifier is Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto while Brazilian Hugo Calderano is the highest non-Asian qualifier at number nine, just ahead of German’s Timo Boll.
Like the men’s singles, the women’s singles competition is also dominated by Chinese players with 10 of the 16 qualifiers coming from China. Nineteen year old Chinese ace Sun Yingsha heads the list ahead of another teenager Mima Ito of Japan.
Ito, the newly crowned Austrian Open champion is one of the four Japanese qualifier for the Grand Finals. Singapore’s Feng Tianwei and Chinese Taipei’s Cheng I-Ching make up the list of qualifiers.
Qualifiers ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
Men’s Singles
Qualifiers: 1. Xu Xin (CHN) 2. Fan Zhendong (CHN) 3. Lin Gaoyuan (CHN) 4. Ma Long (CHN) 5. Tomokazu Harimoto (JPN) 6. Lin Yun-Ju (TPE) 7. Wang Chuqin (CHN) 8. Liang Jingkun (CHN) 9. Hugo Calderano (BRA) 10. Tim Boll (GER) 11. Dimitrij Ovtcharov (GER) 12. Patrick Franziska (GER) 13. Zhao Zihao (CHN) 14. Mattias Falck (SWE) 15. Jeoung Youngsik (KOR) 16. Jun Mizutani (JPN)
Reserves: 17. Wong Chun Ting (HKG) 18. Koki Niwa (JPN) 19. Jang Woojin (KOR)
Women’s Singles
Qualifiers: 1. Sun Yingsha (CHN) 2. Mima Ito (JPN) 3. Chen Meng (CHN) 4. Wang Manyu (CHN) 5. Chen Xingtong (CHN) 6. Liu Shiwen (CHN) 7. Ding Ning (CHN) 8. Wang Yidi (CHN) 9. Zhu Yuling (CHN) 10. Miu Hirano (JPN) 11. Kasumi Ishikawa (JPN) 12. Feng Tianwei (SGP) 13. He Zhuojia (CHN) 14. Cheng I-Ching (TPE) 15. Hitomi Sato (JPN) 16. Qian Tianyi (CHN)
Reserves: 17. Jeon Jihee (KOR) 18. Gu Yuting (CHN) 19. Doo Hoi Kem (HKG)
Men’s Doubles
Qualifiers: 1. Jeung Youngsik / Lee Sangsu (KOR) 2. Fan Zhendong / Xu Xin (CHN) 3. Liang Jingkun / Lin Gaoyuan (CHN) 4. Timo Boll / Patrick Franziska (GER) 5. Ho Kwan Kit / Wong Chun Ting (HKG) 6. Benedikt Duda / Qiu Dang (GER) 7. Liao Cheng-Ting / Lin Yun-Ju (TPE) 8. Chen Chien-An / Chuang Chih-Yuan (TPE)
Reserves: 9. Jang Woojin / Lim Jonghoon (KOR) 10. Jakub Dyjas / Cédric Nuytinck (POL/BEL) 11. Masataka Morizono / Maharu Yoshimura (JPN)
Women’s Doubles
Qualifiers: 1. Miyuu Kihara / Miyu Nagasaki (JPN) 2. Jeon Jihee / Yang Haeun (KOR) 3. Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu (CHN) 4. Chen Szu-Yu / Cheng Hsien-Tzu (TPE) 5. Miu Hirano / Saki Shibata (JPN) 6. Barbora Balazova / Hana Matelova (SVK/CZE) 7. Doo Hoi Kem / Lee Ho Ching (HKG) 8. Ng Wing Nam / Minnie Soo Wai Yam (HKG)
Reserves: 9. Lin Ye / Yu Mengyu (SGP) 10. Natalia Bajor / Natalia Partyka (POL) 11.Manika Batra / Archana Girish Kamath (IND)
Mixed Doubles
Qualifiers: 1. Wong Chun Ting / Doo Hoi Kem (HKG) 2. Lin Yun-Ju / Cheng I-Ching (TPE) 3. Xu Xin / Liu Shiwen (CHN) 4. Jun Mizutani / Mima Ito (JPN) 5. Cho Daeseong / Shin Yubin (KOR) 6. Lubomir Pistej / Barbora Balazova (SVK) 7. Tristan Flore / Laura Gasnier (FRA) 8. Adam Szudi / Szandra Pergel (HUN)
Reserves: 9. Stefan Fegerl / Sofia Polcanova (AUT) 10. Ovidiu Ionescu / Bernadette Szocs (ROU) 11. Patrick Franziska / Petrissa Solja (GER)
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