The 2010 Austrian Open

"10/20/2010        LIEBHERR 2010 Austrian Open - ITTF Pro Tour

The Austrian Open starts on Wednesday 20th October 2010 with the qualifications groups.

LIVE streaming will start on Friday 22nd October 2010 at 08.00 GMT (10.00 local time) with the Women's Doubles Round One."

How come only one junior from China made it to the main draw? A few of them won the group it seems.

takaaki wrote: wow, that's right liu yanan, fan shengpeng, zheng peifeng and wu jiaji all won their groups, but only liu made it to the main draw. can somebody here explain how that could possibly happen???

Edited by Jonan - 10/21/2010 at 3:52pm

takaaki wrote: Jonan wrote: takaaki wrote: wow, that's right liu yanan, fan shengpeng, zheng peifeng and wu jiaji all won their groups, but only liu made it to the main draw. can somebody here explain how that could possibly happen??? http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=22348&Competition_ID=1988& Apparently the games win to loss ration happened. wha??? you're talking about a 3-way tie in a group.  i'm talking about 3 guys who won their separate groups, but didn't get inserted into the main draw.

oh, ok, i see now.  they had too many entries, so they played another round to eliminate some more and the 3 of the 4 chinese lost in that round.

hahahahaha!!!  me too!!  the problem is now i can't go back to sleep!!

anyhow, they have started to upload vids and the 1st vid they have put up is the women's doubles match btw. dodean/samara and partyka/xu.

i guess their camaras are at table 1, which means the next match they will upload will be the men's doubles match btw. apolonia/monteiro and matsudaira/niwa, which is currently in progress.

if i'm right about that, then that means, in the men's singles, today will be "portuguese" day, cuz 3 of the 4 matches on table 1 today feature the portuguese top-3.

tablet92 wrote: To all Kenta haters, he just beat Steger

why all the fuss?  kenta is better than steger...has steger won anything? kenta is world junior champiion and steger not

I have never heard of Yaroslav Zhmudenko before today, but, he just beat Schlager 11-4 in the 7th set. Wow!!!

any vids of Machado vs Tang Pen?

bbkon wrote: tablet92 wrote: To all Kenta haters, he just beat Steger  why all the fuss?  kenta is better than steger...has steger won anything? kenta is world junior champiion and steger not

When Steger was a junior, there were no world junior championships.

Steger is 33 in the world, Kenta 67.

If you want to go by ratingscentral, Steger is 69, Kenta 143 (wow!).

So this was an upset alright. But then again, this was Steger's first tournament after injury.

yep and Zhu Yuling has to play Wang Yu Gue next, which she lost to pretty convincingly in the Japan Open final.

Chen Meng beating Ishikawa easily was not  a surprise

Kenta playing Mizutani next,  if Kenta wins, I'll be a believer haha

amateur wrote: bbkon wrote: tablet92 wrote: To all Kenta haters, he just beat Steger  why all the fuss?  kenta is better than steger...has steger won anything? kenta is world junior champiion and steger not When Steger was a junior, there were no world junior championships. Steger is 33 in the world, Kenta 67. If you want to go by ratingscentral, Steger is 69, Kenta 143 (wow!). So this was an upset alright. But then again, this was Steger's first tournament after injury.

tablet92 wrote: Jonan wrote: amateur wrote: bbkon wrote: tablet92 wrote: To all Kenta haters, he just beat Steger  why all the fuss?  kenta is better than steger...has steger won anything? kenta is world junior champiion and steger not When Steger was a junior, there were no world junior championships. Steger is 33 in the world, Kenta 67. If you want to go by ratingscentral, Steger is 69, Kenta 143 (wow!). So this was an upset alright. But then again, this was Steger's first tournament after injury. Steger beat himself, you watch the video? He got yellow carded, red carded and white carded and had to take a time out and sit in the corner, he was cruising along and then got just ticked off something fierce, throwing his racket a couple times, getting into an argument with the ref...aaand him coming back from a injury, hardly a clean win for Kenta. Then,what about 4:0 win agains Fedor Kuzmin nr 57 in the world?

machado beating jiang anf jeon?  is he a cpen short pips?  lot of upsets

kenta 2-0 up, good match

make that 3-0