2019 ITTF Challenge Series

The 2019 ITTF Challenge Series is the third season of the International Table Tennis Federation's secondary professional table tennis tour, a level below the ITTF World Tour.[1] From this season, the ITTF Challenge Series will be split into two tiers: Challenge Plus and Challenge.[2]

2019 ITTF Challenge Series
Details
Duration13 February 2019 – 8 December 2019
Edition3rd
Tournaments17
CategoriesChallenge Plus (6)
Challenge (10)
Achievements (singles)
← 2018
2020 →

Schedule

The tournaments in the 2019 tour have been split into two tiers: Challenge Plus and Challenge.

Below is the 2019 schedule announced by the International Table Tennis Federation:[3]

Key
Challenge Plus
Challenge
No. Date Tournament Location Venue Prize (USD) Report Ref.
1 13–17 February Portugal Open Lisbon Pavilhão Desportivo do Casal Vistoso 60,000 Report [4]
2 20–24 March Oman Open Muscat Sultan Qaboos Sports Complex 65,000 Report [5]
3 20–24 March Spanish Open Guadalajara Palacio Multiusos de Guadalajara 30,000 Report [6]
4 1–5 May Serbia Open Belgrade BG Sport Centre Kovilovo 30,000 Report [7]
5 8–12 May Slovenia Open Otočec Športni Center Otočec 30,000 Report [8]
6 14–18 May Croatia Open Zagreb Hall of Sports Zagreb 30,000 Report [9]
7 22–26 May Thailand Open Bangkok Island Hall, Fashion Island 30,000 Report [10]
8 24–28 July Pyongyang Open Pyongyang Pyongyang Table Tennis Hall 60,000 Report [11]
9 7–11 August Nigeria Open Lagos Sir Molade Okoya-Thomas Indoor Sports Hall 60,000 Report [12]
10 10–14 September Paraguay Open Asunción SND Arena 60,000 Report [13]
11 16–20 October Polish Open Władysławowo Olympic Sport Center 30,000 Report [14]
12 30 October–3 November Belarus Open Minsk Palace of Tennis 30,000 Report [15]
13 13–17 November Indonesia Open Batam Hi-Test Arena 30,000 Report [16]
14 4–8 December North American Open Markham Markham Pan Am Centre 75,000 Report [17]

Winners
Key
Challenge Plus
Challenge
Event Men's singles Women's singles Men's doubles Women's doubles Mixed doubles U21 Men's singles U21 Women's singles
Portugal Open Liang Jingkun Hina Hayata Cao Wei
Xu Yingbin		 Fan Siqi
Yang Huijing		 Lin Gaoyuan
Liu Shiwen		 Shunsuke Togami Fan Siqi
Oman Open Lin Yun-ju Hina Hayata Liao Cheng-ting
Lin Yun-ju		 Satsuki Odo
Saki Shibata		 Lin Yun-ju
Cheng I-ching		 Vladimir Sidorenko Satsuki Odo
Spanish Open Zhai Yujia Miyu Kato Kilian Ort
Qiu Dang		 Stéphanie Loeuillette
Yuan Jianan		 Not held Horacio Cifuentes Adriana Díaz
Serbia Open Paul Drinkhall Hina Hayata Diago Carvalho
João Geraldo		 Ng Wing Nam
Soo Wai Yam Minnie		 Leo De Nodrest Maria Malanina
Slovenia Open Wei Shihao Georgina Póta Eric Jouti
Gustavo Tsuboi		 Miyuu Kihara
Miyu Nagasaki		 Feng Yi-hsin Miyu Nagasaki
Croatia Open Anton Kallberg Miyuu Kihara Shunsuke Togami
Yukiya Uda		 Miyuu Kihara
Miyu Nagasaki		 Yukiya Uda Sun Jiayi
Thailand Open Ruwen Filus Hitomi Sato Ruwen Filus
Steffen Mengel		 Satsuki Odo
Saki Shibata		 Li Hsin-yu Yuka Umemura
Pyongyang Open An Ji-song Kim Song-i Ham Yu-song
Ri Kwang-myong		 Cha Hyo-sim
Kim Nam-hae		 Ham Yu-song
Cha Hyo-sim		 Feng Yi-hsin Pyon Song-gyong
Nigerian Open Quadri Aruna Polina Mikhaylova Cédric Nuytinck
Quentin Robinot		 Polina Mikhaylova
Yana Noskova		 Kilian Ort
Wan Yuan		 Cristian Pletea Andreea Dragoman
Paraguay Open Masataka Morizono Hina Hayata Masataka Morizono
Ľubomír Pištej		 Honoka Hashimoto
Maki Shiomi		 Brian Afanador
Adriana Díaz		 Horacio Cifuentes Maki Shiomi
Polish Open Xu Yingbin He Zhuojia Gastón Alto
Horacio Cifuentes		 Honoka Hashimoto
Maki Shiomi		 Not held Xiang Peng Kuai Man
Belarus Open Emmanuel Lebesson Hina Hayata Xu Haidong
Zhao Zhaoyan		 Satsuki Odo
Saki Shibata		 Sai Linwei Shi Xunyao
Indonesia Open Harmeet Desai Shao Jieni Ibrahima Diaw
Padasak Tanviriyavechakul		 Luo Xue
Shao Jieni		 Yuma Tanigaki Moe Nomura
North American Open Xiang Peng Kasumi Ishikawa Cao Wei
Xu Yingbin		 Honoka Hashimoto
Hitomi Sato		 Ľubomír Pištej
Barbora Balážová		 Manav Thakkar Wang Xiaotong
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gollark: Oh, *you will*.
gollark: It's weird that the predictions remain moderately bad despite recent exciting advances in natural language processing.
gollark: I can type 100WPM or more on my laptop, and the *record* on phones is 80WPM or so; you can barely manage usable speeds on a phone *with* the autocorrect thing which randomly messes up words.
gollark: This sort of thing is why I mildly dislike virtual keyboards.

See also

References
  1. "A motivating force, the Challenge tournaments". ITTF. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  2. "Changes to 2019 Challenge Series" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  3. "2019 ITTF Challenge Series / Events". ITTF. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  4. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge Plus, Portugal Open". ITTF. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
  5. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge Plus, Oman Open". ITTF. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  6. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge, Spanish Open". ITTF. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  7. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge, Serbia Open". ITTF. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  8. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge, Slovenia Open". ITTF. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  9. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge, Croatia Open". ITTF. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  10. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge, Thailand Open". ITTF. Retrieved 24 March 2019.
  11. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge Plus, Pyongyang Open". ITTF. Retrieved 28 July 2019.
  12. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge Plus, Nigerian Open". ITTF. Retrieved 11 August 2019.
  13. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge Plus, Paraguay Open". ITTF. Retrieved 14 September 2019.
  14. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge, Polish Open". ITTF. Retrieved 20 October 2019.
  15. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge, Belgosstrakh Belarus Open". ITTF. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  16. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge, Indonesia Open". ITTF. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
  17. "Seamaster 2019 ITTF Challenge, North American Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 December 2019.
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