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12th - 16th August - Korea Junior & Cadet Open, Chungcheongnam-do, Korea.

Excerpts from ITTF :
In 1993 Hyun Jung Hwa won the Women's Singles title at the World Championships in Gothenburg and more recently in 2004 Ryu Seung Min clinched the gold medal at the Athens Olympic Games.

Both are true to traditional Korean table tennis techniques; penhold grip, fast attacking athletic players but times have changed in the country. The athleticism remains but the new breed of players are predominantly shakehands grip players and they will be very much in evidence at the forthcoming Korean Junior Open.

To read more : http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_fu ... n_ID=1860&


19th - 23rd August - KAL Korea Open, Seoul, Korea

Next after the ITTF Pro Tour China Open is the Korean Open. Will expect most Asian players with a few European players taking part in this event.

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In my eyes, China team can get a good result,you know China is always unbeatable in the table-tennis!I believe!Chinese athletes is strong in mental !

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The KAL Korea Open starts today. Wang Hao got a bye in the 1st round and several others. It will be a busy day for all table tennis enthusiasts in Seoul this week.

[varghese]

Darn. I planned to go to Korea Open. That did not happen. Even a week ago I planned to go to the World Team Cup in Austria. Both did not happen because of my appointments.

Is Joo Se Hyuk playing?

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First day action at the KAL Korean Open produced upsets. The fourth highest world ranked player in action in Seoul, during the initial phase, Zhenqi Barthel was beaten by Hong Kong’s 16 year old, Lee Ho Ching. Meanwhile, Choi Moon Young, the eleventh highest rated in action, suffered against China’s Sheng Dandan.Lee Ho Ching succeeded 11-8, 11-7, 11-6, 9-11, 11-6; whilst Sheng Dandan prevailed 11-7, 11-8, 11-4, 11-9.

However, for the remaining highly rated players it was a comfortable experience on the opening day.

Joo SH is playing in the Korean Open. He received a Bye in the round of 64 and should be in action today (20/8/09).

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KAL Korean Open, Seoul, Korea.

Following the opening round of matches in the top half of the draw in the Men’s Singles event at the KAL Korean Open in Seoul yesterday, the host nation must be happy that the quartet of Kim Min Seok (Winner of the Boys’ Singles crown at the Korean Junior Open), Kim Dong Hyun (won against a French player), Ham So Ri( stands currently at no.673 on the ITTF Men’s World Ranking) and Seo Hyun Deok, all secured opening round victories in their respective groups to enter the main draw.

They demonstrated that they are closely following the footsteps of the established Korean first team of Oh Sang Eun, Joo Se Hyuk, Ryu Seung Min and Yoon Jae Young.

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Well the KAL Korean Open produced a non-Chinese winner. Jun Mizutani of Japan, emerged as the Men’s Singles winner at the KAL Cup Korean Open in Seoul on Sunday 23rd August 2009 beating China’s Hao Shuai at the final for his first ever Men’s Singles crown on the ITTF Pro Tour.

Jun, seeded no.8, took a five games victory over the no.3 seed and thus for the second consecutive week, it was the runners up spot for Hao Shuai in a Men’s Singles event on the ITTF Pro Tour. In the previous week he had lost to compatriot Wang Hao in Tianjin at the China Open in seven games.

As for the Women Singles, Singapore’s Feng Tianwei(seeded no. 1) won the crown. She won over compatriot Sun Bei Bei at the semi-final stage by the very narrowest of seven game margins. Then in the final Feng Tianwei, with confidence, dominated matters from start to finish, succeeding in four straight games against Hong Kong’s Jiang Huajun. Feng Tianwei won 11-2, 11-8, 11-8, 11-9.

For the doubles, excerpt from ITTF News :
"Gold for the host nation in the Women’s Doubles event at the KAL Korean Open in Seoul on Sunday 23rd August 2009 but in the Men’s Doubles competition they had to settle for silver.

Cho Eon Rae and Kim Jung Hoon suffered defeat in the final against the partnership of China’s Hao Shuai and Wang Hao.

It was the first time the pairings had met in international competition and the first final for either as a combination. Hao Shuai and Wang Hao succeeded in convincing style; they won 11-5, 11-9, 11-9, 11-7.

Neither pair as a unit has a history of great honours.

The partnership of Cho Eon Rae and Kim Jung Hoon reached the semi-final stage of the Men’s Doubles event at the Volkswagen Open Korea in 2007 whilst two years earlier Hao Shuai and Wang Hao had reached that stage at the Volkswagen China Open.

Left and Right
The partnership of Hao Shuai and Wang Hao is the perfect Men’s Doubles combination; a left hander and a right hander, an exponent of the shakehands grip and a penhold grip player in harness. It could not be better.

It is a formula that has brought success to China in the past, most noticeably the combination of Chen Qi and Ma Lin, Olympic and World Men’s Doubles champions; like Chen Qi, Hao Shuai is a left handed shakehands grip player and like Ma Lin, Wang Hao is a right handed penholder."