TABLE TENNIS Preview: Fan looks for fourth tour win at Austrian Open

One of the six ITTF World Tour Platinum events, the Austrian Open is getting ready at the TipsArena Linz. The top seeds:

∙ Men’s Singles:
1. Zhendong Fan (CHN)
2. Xin Xu (CHN)

∙ Men’s Doubles:
1. Youngsik Jeong/Sangsu Lee (KOR)
2. Masataka Morizono/Yuya Oshima (JPN)

∙ Women’s Singles:
1. Yuling Zhu (CHN)
2. Ning Ding (CHN)

∙ Women’s Doubles:
1. Hina Hayata/Mima Ito (JPN)
2. Jihee Jeon/Haeun Yang (KOR)

∙ Mixed Doubles:
1. Chien-An Chen/I-Ching Cheng (TPE)
2. Maharu Yoshimura/Kasumi Ishikawa (JPN)

Three defending champions are back, including Gaoyuan Lin (CHN: 5th seed), Manyu Wang (CHN: 6) and the women’s Doubles pair of Xingtong Chen/Yingsha Sun (CHN: 5).

Fan defeated Xu last week at the Swedish Open and has won three events in tour this season; among the women, Wang has also won three times. Look for results here.