Thailand’s Padasak TANVIRIYAVECHUL and Kim VERMAAS of the Netherlands emerged successful in the respective Boys’ Singles and Girls’ Singles events at the 2014 Road to Nanjing Series – Europe tournament in the French city of Metz. They reserved a place in
Thailand’s Padasak TANVIRIYAVECHUL and Kim VERMAAS of the Netherlands emerged successful in the respective Boys’ Singles and Girls’ Singles events at the 2014 Road to Nanjing Series – Europe tournament in the French city of Metz.
They reserved a place in the forthcoming Youth Olympic Games to be staged later this year in the Chinese city of Nanjing; the table tennis events will be held from Sunday 17th to Saturday 23rd August.
Players Qualified
World Youth Olympic Games Qualification Tournament (22-23 January in Vila Nova de Gaia Portugal)
Boys: Adam SZUDI (Hungary) Kilian ORT (Germany) David REITSPIES (Czech Republic) YANG Heng-Wei (Chinese Taipei)
Girls: DOO Hoi Kem (Hong Kong) CHIU Ssu-Hua (Chinese Taipei) Adina DIACONU (Romania) Miyu KATO (Japan)
World Ranking (February 2014)
Boys: Yuto MURAMATSU (Japan) Hugo CALDERANO (Brazil) KIM Minhyeok (Korea)
Girls: Nina MITTELHAM (Germany) Lily ZHANG (U.S.A.) Tamolwan KHEKHUAN (Thailand)
European Youth Olympic Games Qualification Tournament (9th – 11th February Hodonin Czech Republic)
Boys: Can AKKUZU (France) Patryk ZATOWKA (Poland) Diogo CHEN (Portugal) Tomislav PUCAR (Croatia)
Girls: Natalia BAJOR (Poland) Maria MALANINA (Russia) Nicole TROSMAN (Israel) Audrey ZARIF (France)