The ITTF World Tour continues through Europe, this week in Olomouc (CZE) for the annual Czech Open at the Omega Sports Center.
China has very little presence at this week’s tournament, so Japan has three top seeds, including defending champion Kasumi Ishikawa and teenager Tomokazu Harimoto, who won the Bulgaria Open last week for third career World Tour victory … at age 16! The top seeds:
● Men/Singles:
1. Tomokazu Harimoto (JPN: 4)
2. Hugo Calderano (BRA: 7)
3. Timo Boll (GER: 8)
● Men/Doubles:
1. Kwan Kit Ho/Chun Ting Wong (HKG)
2. Cheng-Ting Liao/Yun-Ju Lin (TPE)
3. Chien-An Chen/Chih-Yuan Chuang (TPE)
● Women/Singles:
1. Kasumi Ishikawa (JPN: 6) ~ Defending Champion
2. Mima Ito (JPN: 7)
3. Miu Hirano (JPN: 8)
● Women/Doubles:
1. Miyuu Kihara/Miyu Nagasaki (JPN)
2. Barbora Balasova (SVK)/Hana Matelova (CZE)
3. Miu Hirano/Saki Shibata (JPN)
● Mixed Doubles:
1. Sangsu Lee/Jihee Jeon (KOR)
2. Lubomir Pistej/Barbora Balasova (SVK)
3. Stefan Fegerl/Sofia Polcanovs (AUT)
Look for results here.
