The 2019 Hong Kong Open was a table tennis tournament which took place at

Queen Elizabeth Stadium The Queen Elizabeth Stadium is an indoor sport facility on the Morrison Hill in Wan Chai, on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong. First opened in 1980, it has a 3,500-seat arena, gymnasia, squash and badminton courts, and a multi-purpose hall. ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

, from 6 to 9 June 2019 and had a total prize of $175,000.

Tournament

The 2019 Hong Kong Open was the fourth tournament of the

2019 ITTF World Tour The 2019 ITTF World Tour was the 24th season of the International Table Tennis Federation's professional table tennis world tour. Schedule The tournaments in the 2019 tour have been split into two tiers: World Tour Platinum and World Tour. The Pl ...

and also part of the Hong Kong Open championships, which have been held since 2018.

Venue

This tournament was held at the

Point distribution

Below is the point distribution table for each phase of the tournament.

Prize pool

The total prize money is US$175,000.

Men's singles

Seeds

Lin Gaoyuan Lin Gaoyuan (; born 19 March 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player. He was the Asian Cup champion in 2017, and was a member of the Chinese teams that took the gold medals at the World Team Championships in 2018 and 2022 The year beg ...

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Tomokazu Harimoto is a Japanese professional table tennis player who is ranked No. 4 in the ITTF rankings. Born to Chinese parents, he became a naturalized Japanese citizen in 2014. He won the world junior singles and team title at the 2016 World Junior Table T ...

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Liang Jingkun Liang Jingkun (; born 20 October 1996) is a Chinese professional table tennis player. He is a four-time bronze medalist in men's singles at the World Table Tennis Championships. Career A top junior player with huge potential, Liang made a break ...

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Timo Boll Timo Boll (, ; born 8 March 1981) is a German former professional table tennis player. Boll is the most successful German table tennis player of all time, having won several medals at Olympic Games, world cups, and world championships. He was ra ...

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Jang Woo-jin Jang Woo-jin (born 10 September 1995) is a South Korean table tennis player. Career Junior Jang started playing international matches from the South Korean cadet boys' team in 2009 – Bahrain Junior Open held in Manama, Bahrain. He won boys' si ...

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Lee Sang-su Lee Sang-su (born 13 August 1990) is a South Korean table tennis player. He won two singles titles at the ITTF Pro Tour, the first one was in 2010. He reached semifinals in singles event at the 2017 World Championships. Lee Sangsu represented S ...

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Mattias Falck Mattias Falck (; , born 7 September 1991) is a Swedish table tennis player. Career He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics as he was part of the Swedish team in the men's team event. Mattias won two medals at the 2016 European Table Tennis Cha ...

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Koki Niwa is a Japanese male table tennis player. He is the gold medalist at the 2010 Youth Olympics and he won the World Junior Table Tennis Championships in 2010 (doubles) and 2011 (singles). On 21 April 2012, he defeated Ma Long of China, World Rank ...

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Jun Mizutani is a retired Japanese table tennis player and Olympic champion. He became the youngest Japanese national champion at the age of 17. He has the distinction of being the first male singles titlist to achieve five consecutive national championship ...

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Liam Pitchford Liam Benjamin Pitchford (born 12 July 1993) is an English table tennis player. He is sponsored by JOOLA. Career Pitchford began playing table tennis when he was eight years old. He won the British Home Countries Championship in 2009, and two Co ...

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Lim Jong-hoon Lim Jong-hoon (, born 21 January 1997) is a South Korean table tennis player. Career Lim and Jang Woo-jin were the men's doubles winners at the 2016 Belarus Open, the 2018 Korea Open, and the 2018 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals The 2018 ITTF ...

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Patrick Franziska Patrick Franziska (born 11 June 1992) is a German table tennis player. He is currently sponsored by Butterfly and plays with FC Saarbrücken-TT in the German Bundesliga (TTBL). Career 2010 In 2010, Franziska won the junior boys singles gold ...

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Wong Chun Ting Wong Chun-ting (; born 7 September 1991) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. He won his first doubles title on the ITTF World Tour in 2012 and won another three doubles titles in 2014. In 2015, he won a bronze medal in mixed doubles event with D ...

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Lin Yun-ju Lin Yun-Ju ( born 17 August 2001) is a Taiwanese table tennis player.

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Quadri Aruna Quadri Akinade Aruna (born 9 August 1988) is a professional Nigerian table tennis player. He competed for Nigeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics, and 2020 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals in 2016. He is the first ...

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Ho Kwan Kit Ho Kwan-kit (; born 20 April 1997) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. He qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is ...

''(first round)''

Draw

Finals

''Source''

Top half

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Bottom half

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Women's singles

Seeds

Kasumi Ishikawa (born 23 February 1993) is a retired Japanese table tennis player. A regular member of the Japanese national team, she won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics, a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and a silver medal at the 2020 Summer Ol ...

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Mima Ito is a Japanese table tennis player. She won a bronze medal in the Women's Team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics at age 15. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal with her partner Jun Mizutani in the inaugural mixed doubles event, br ...

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Cheng I-ching Cheng I-ching (; born 15 February 1992) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Li Xiaoxia, and as part of the Chinese Taipei ...

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Miu Hirano (born 14 April 2000) is a Japanese table tennis player. She won Table Tennis World Cup, Women's World Cup in 2016 as the youngest ever winner. She won the women's singles at the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships by sweeping away three top Ch ...

''(semi-finals)'' # Suh Hyo-won ''(quarter-finals)'' #

Doo Hoi Kem Doo Hoi Kem (; born 27 November 1996) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. She won two medals at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and she was a member of Hong Kong women's team at the 2014 World Team Championships. In 2015, she won a bronze medal ...

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Feng Tianwei Feng Tianwei (, ; born 31 August 1986) is a Singaporean retired table tennis player. Born in China, she permanently moved to Singapore in March 2007 at the age of 20 under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme and commenced her international car ...

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Saki Shibata is a Japanese table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Eith ...

''(quarter-finals)'' # Hitomi Sato ''(second round)'' #

Chen Xingtong Chen Xingtong (; born 27 May 1997) is a Chinese table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, ...

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Jeon Ji-hee Jeon Ji-hee (, born 28 October 1992), born Tian Minwei ( zh, c=田旻炜), is a Chinese-born South Korean table tennis player of Manchu ethnicity. Career 2016 She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she ...

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He Zhuojia He Zhuojia (, born 25 October 1998) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is one of the few top players utilizing long pips. She won the 2014 Argentina Open when she was 15 years old. She also had a memorable run at the 2018 ITTF World Tour Gra ...

''(second round)'' #

Bernadette Szocs Bernadette is a French name, a female form of the name Bernard, which means "brave bear". Notable persons with the name include: People * Bernadette (singer) (born 1959), Dutch singer * Bernadette Allen (born 1956), American foreign service of ...

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Sofia Polcanova Sofia Polcanova (born 3 September 1994 in Chișinău) is a Moldovan-Austrian table tennis player. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the second round by Jian Fang Lay, and as pa ...

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Lee Ho Ching Lee Ho Ching (born 24 November 1992) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. She qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, and was selected to represent Hong Kong in the women's singles and the women's team. At the 2020 Summer Olym ...

''(first round)'' # Xiaona Shan ''(second round)''

Draw

Finals

''Source''

Top half

= Section 1

= Section 2

Bottom half

= Section 3

= Section 4

= ''Source''

Men's doubles

Seeds

Chen Chien-an Chen Chien-an (; born 16 June 1991) is a Taiwanese table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis cou ...

Chuang Chih-yuan Chuang Chih-yuan (; born 2 April 1981) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. He won the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals in 2002 and doubles title at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships. He participated in the Summer Olympics six times, making t ...

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Ovidiu Ionescu Ovidiu George Ionescu (born 28 June 1989) is a Romanian professional table tennis player who plays with Post SV Mühlhausen and SCM Gloria Buzău. Career Ionescu competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the singles event, in which he was eliminat ...

/ Alvaro Robles ''(first round)'' #

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(Champion) #

Liao Cheng-ting Liao may refer to: Chinese history * Liao (Zhou dynasty state) (蓼), two states in ancient China during the Spring and Autumn period in the 8th and 7th centuries BC * Liao of Wu (吳王僚) (died 515 BC), king of Wu during ancient China's Spring a ...

Lin Yun-ju Lin Yun-Ju ( born 17 August 2001) is a Taiwanese table tennis player.

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Masataka Morizono is a Japanese table tennis player. With doubles partner Yuya Oshima, he won the gold medal in the men's doubles event at both the 2015 and 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, as well as winning a silver medal in men's doubles at the 2017 World C ...

Maharu Yoshimura is a Japanese table tennis player. Life and career 1993–2010: Early life and background Yoshimura was born in Ibaraki Prefecture to a Filipina mother and a Japanese father. He has two younger brothers, namely Kazuhiro and Tomohisa, who are ...

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Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (born 8 January 1993) is an Indian table tennis player, who is the highest ranked Indian men's singles player in the sport, currently ranked at 73 in the world as of 12 November 2024. He was a member of the Indian team tha ...

Sharath Kamal Achanta Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982) is an Indian former table tennis player. He is a ten time national champion. In 2019, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award. In 2022, he was awarded the Khel Ratna Award, I ...

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Draw

''Source''

Women's doubles

Seeds

# Hana Matelova / Barbora Balazova ''(first round)'' # Chen Ke / Mu Zi (Champion) # Chng Hsien-tzu / Chen Szu-yu ''(first round)'' #

''(quarter-finals)'' #

''(first round)'' # Yoo Eun-chong /

''(final)'' # Lin Ye /

Zeng Jian Zeng Jian (, born 19 November 1996) is a Singaporean table tennis player. She won three Under-21 singles titles at the 2016 ITTF World Tour. She qualified and took part in the 2024 Summer Olympics at Paris. Career In late 2014, Zeng registered ...

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Soo Wai Yam Minnie Soo Wai Yam (, born 13 April 1998) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. In 2018, she won bronze in the women’s team event at the World Championship and the Asian Games. Later at the 2020 Summer Olympics, she also won a bronze medal in ...

Ng Wing Nam Venus Ng Wing Nam (; born 9 August 1992) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. Since 2007, she became a full time athlete in Hong Kong Sports Institute. Her highest career ITTF ranking was 28 in July 2014. She was the first local player to win ...

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Draw

''Source''

Mixed doubles

Seeds

Stefan Fegerl Stefan Fegerl (born 12 September 1988 in Gmünd) is an Austrian table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event, in which he was eliminated in the third round by Koki Niwa is a Japanese male table te ...

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Choi Hyo-joo Choi Hyo-joo (, born 15 April 1998) is a Chinese-born South Korean table tennis player. Born in China as Yao Yao ( zh, c=姚尧), she became a naturalized South Korean citizen in November 2013. She represented South Korea at the team event i ...

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Lin Yun-ju Lin Yun-Ju ( born 17 August 2001) is a Taiwanese table tennis player.

(Champion) # Lubomir Pistej / Barbora Balazova ''(first round)'' #

Szandra Pergel Szandra Pergel (born 24 December 1988) is a Hungarian table tennis player. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics The officially the and officially branded as were an international multi-sport event that was held from 23 July t ...

/ Adam Szudi ''(first round)'' #

''(semi-finals)''

Draw

''Source''

References

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