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.