Junior Table Tennis event to take place in Hungary
The sixth International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Junior event is going to be staged in Tata, Hungary. The Joola Hungarian Open ITTF Premium Junior circuit event will start on Thursday, 31st March and will conclude on Sunday, 3rd
April.
There are approximately 160 entries for the event. The major chunk of participants are from Europe and Asia. The Prize money of US$8,000, has been announced by the Hungarian Table Tennis Association, without any tax deductions. There will be boys and girls
in the single and doubles event, along with mixed doubles, in the junior categories.
The event is expected to be highly organised because Hungary is well known for its sporting facilities and other tournaments. The country has great experience of playing Table Tennis and its one of the most important sports in the country.
The Hungarian womens team has made its place amongst the most prominent teams in Europe. It has also emerged as the most challenging team for their Asian opponents. The men's team has also revived it's fortunes in recent times. They want to bring back the
era of great Hungarian Table Tennis players like Istvan Jonyer, Gabor Gergely and Tibor Klampar.
The top five seeded boy’s players of the tournament include Hung Tzu-Hsiang, who is on the number one seed from Chinese Taipei. There is Dragan Subotic from Serbia, who is the second seeded player, whereas the third seed is occupied by Tomasz Wisniewski
from Poland. Fillip Cipin from Croatia is the fourth seed and Antoine Hachard from France is the fifth seed.
The current world number two junior player, Stefan Leitgeb from Austria, is also featured in the event and he is playing as the 19th seed.
The top three seeded girls Table Tennis players are; Bernadette Szocs from Romania is on number one in the tournament, Dora Madarasz from the host country is on number two seed. On the number third is Sofia Polcanova from Austria.
The top ten teams of the event are Chinese Taipei, France, Poland A, Croatia, Belgium, Hungary A, Serbia, Poland B, Germany and Romania.
The ITTF organization is hoping to develop Junior level Table Tennis all over the world. This will help develop the sport at the grass root level. This year there are a total of 31 juniors and the cadet event will be held by the ITTF organization. The most
important of which is the Volkswagen World Junior Cup, which is going to be held at the end of the year at Brunai Darussalam.
The Hungarian Table Tennis association is looking forward to their players doing well, whether they will be able to create the magic of legendary players is yet to be seen. It looks tough but if the junior players succeed in doing so they can make their
place among the top players of the world in future.
The team matches will be played on the first day of the event. The singles group events will be played from the 2nd to 3rd of April. The group rounds will be played in a round robin format. The top players will proceed to the main rounds.
This will be the first ITTF event after the Volkswagen Cup held earlier this month.
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