The previous day, contrary to ranking, Chile’s Nicolas Burgos, Andres Martinez and Manuel Moya, alongside Colombia’s Alexander Echavarria and Puerto Rico’s Angel Naranjo had all secured first places in their group contrary to expectations. One day later, all maintained their form, all emerged successful in their opening round encounters. Most impressively Nicolas Burgos beat Guatemala’s Kevin Montufar (11-8, 11-6, 11-4,…

The player to attraction the attention was the host nation’s 17 year old Hidalynn Zapata, occupying the same seeded position as her age, she caused the biggest upset of the day. In the second round, the round prior to the quarter-finals, she accounted for Daniela Ortega, the no.3 seed (11-7, 12-10, 7-11, 6-11, 11-7, 10-12, 11-8), the player who had…

Day starts China’s Zhu Yuling, the no.2 seed, starts the day; she meets Chinese Taipei’s Cheng I-Ching, the no.8 seed. Immediately following the defending champion enter the arena, Wang Manyu, the no.4 seed, confronts the player in form. She opposes Chinese national team colleague, Liu Shiwen, the recently crowned world champion. Seamaster 2019 ITTF World Tour Platinum China Open: Schedule…

Competing in class 4, on the opening day of play, Sandra Mikolaschek had experienced defeat at the hands of Serbia’s Nada Matic (11-9, 8-11, 6-11, 11-4, 11-6); on the second day, after accounting for Borislava Peric-Rankovic, the top seed, the reigning Paralympic and World champion (12-10, 5-11, 11-9, 7-11, 11-9), the German extracted revenge. She accounted for Nada Matic in…