German Open - Showcases 47 of top 50 in the World

[caption id="attachment_2203" align="alignright" width="283"] Dimitry Ovtcharov, 2015 European Champion[/caption] The German Open will be the first ITTF Tour Event of 2016. The announcement this week shows some real excitement for the event - and not just among Germany's elite players. The draw will include 47 of the top 50 men in the World Rankings - and, in fact, every player in the TOP 30 in the World will be in attendance. Tune in to paddlepalace.com to watch the live stream beginning on January 31. We will show every match on the featured table live. The Top 30 Seeds at the 2016 German Open: 1 MA Long CHN 2 FAN Zhendong CHN 3 XU Xin CHN 4 Dimitrij Ovtcharov GER 5 ZHANG Jike CHN 6 Jun MIZUTANI JPN 7 CHUANG Chih-Yuan TPE 8 Marcos FREITAS POR 9 FANG Bo CHN 10 Vladimir Samsonov BLR 11 WONG Chun Ting HKG 12 JUNG Youngsik KOR 13 Koki NIWA JPN 14 JOO Saehyuk KOR 15 An CHN YAN 16 TANG Peng HKG 17 LEE Sangsu KOR 18 Yuya OSHIMA JPN 19 GAO Ning SIN 20 Andrej GACINA CRO 21 Maharu YOSHIMURA JPN 22 Stefan FEGERL AUT 23 Robert Gardos 24 Panagiotis GIONIS GRE 25 Woojin KOR Jang 26 Kenta Matsudaira JPN 27 Tiago Apolonia POR 28 Masataka Morizono JPN 29 Omar ASSAR EGY 30 Pär GERELL SWE

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