The WTT Youth Series resumes on Wednesday, with players descending on the northern area of Austria for WTT Youth Contender Linz 2022, which runs from April 27th to May 3rd, know the schedule and players
The ninth stop on the 2022 Youth Series brings WTT to Austria for the first time, offering gripping drama from start to finish as the sport’s next-generation stars compete for supremacy at TipsArena Linz. Ten trophies will be awarded throughout the course of the seven-day event, with participants ranging in age from U11 to U19 deputising in Linz.
Payas Jain of India leads the U19 Boys’ Singles draw, looking for his first championship of the year. The World No.4 has yet to achieve his peak, with a semifinal place in Tunis being his best result to date. Louis Laffineur of Belgium is the next-highest-ranked entrant, and he comes to Linz with confidence after reaching the quarterfinals in the competitions in Spa and Doha.
WTT Youth Contender Linz 2022 Schedule, Date, Time, Players, Tickets, Live Stream And Prize Money
Elena Zaharia is a well-known player who has had several triumphs in the WTT Youth Series. The 17-year-old Romanian star, who has won six U19 titles since the series’ inception in 2021, is aiming for her third trophy of the year after outstanding performances in Spa and the Youth Star Contender tournament in Tunis. In Linz, though, she will face stiff opposition from the likes of Italy’s Nicole Arlia, as well as the Indian combo of Yashaswini Deepak Ghorpade and Suhana Saini.
Arlia and Saini are the top-ranked contenders in the U17 Girls’ Singles category, and keep a watch out for Bianca Mei Rosu, who arrives at Linz with big goals. The Romanian ace seeded third in the U17 draw, will also like her chances in the U15 discipline as the event’s top name. She’ll have to be at her best, though, with rivals Natalia Bogdanowicz and Mariana Santa Comba from Poland and Portugal ready to pounce.
In an intriguing U13 race, Hungary’s Sophie Barcsai and India’s Hansini Mathan compete against Syrian star Hend Zaza. The latter of the three made headlines in 2020 when she defeated all odds to qualify for the Olympic Games in Tokyo. She travels to Linz in search of her second championship of 2022, following her victory at WTT Youth Contender Sulaymaniyah 2022. The U11 draw has nine participants, including five Austrians.
Players List:
- Payas JAIN
IND
WR
#4
5010 Points - Tom Fabian SCHWEIGER
GER
WR
#32
1445 Points - Radim MORAVEK
CZE
WR
#33
1435 Points - Yashansh MALIK
IND
WR
#35
1375 Points - Finn LUU
AUS
WR
#42
1260 Points - Napat THANMATHIKOM
THA
WR
#44
1245 Points - Ondrej KVETON
CZE
WR
#46
1205 Points - Stepan BRHEL
CZE
WR
#47
1190 Points - LEE Hoyun
KOR
WR
#50
1140 Points - Arnau PONS
ESP
WR
#52
1095 Points - Vit KADLEC
CZE
WR
#57
1000 Points - Timothy FALCONNIER
SUI
WR
#71
775 Points - Leo VEKIC
CRO
WR
#72
770 Points - Martin SIP
CZE
WR
#78
735 Points - Gabrielius CAMARA
NED
WR
#79
730 Points - Rino VIDAN
CRO
WR
#87
655 Points - Preyesh SURESH RAJ
IND
WR
#88
640 Points - Miguel PANTOJA
ESP
WR
#90
635 Points - Jakub KAUCKY
CZE
WR
#91
620 Points - Luis KRAUS
GER
WR
#95
600 Points - Horia Stefan URSUT
ROU
WR
#96
588 Points - Lleyton ULLMANN
GER
WR
#102
575 Points - Matthias DANZER
GER
WR
#103
565 Points - Ankur BHATTACHARJEE
IND
WR
#105
545 Points - Norbert TAULER
ESP
WR
#111
500 Points - Leon BENKO
CRO
WR
#112
500 Points - Deepit PATIL
IND
WR
#114
495 Points - Ivan HENCL
CRO
WR
#118
470 Points - Kamil PACH
SVK
WR
#135
400 Points - Abdullah ABDULWAHHAB
QAT
WR
#136
400 Points - Andre BERTELSMEIER
GER
WR
#137
395 Points - Samuel PALUSEK
SVK
WR
#138
390 Points - Jakub GOLDIR
SVK
WR
#141
375 Points - Hwan BAE
AUS
WR
#146
368 Points - Rafael KONG
POR
WR
#159
333 Points - Mateusz ZALEWSKI
POL
WR
#180
265 Points - Aljaz GODEC
SLO
WR
#184
255 Points - Miha PODOBNIK
SLO
WR
#189
244 Points - Shankhadip DAS
IND
WR
#190
239 Points - Sam KHOSRAVI
FIN
WR
#204
205 Points - WEI Chen Yu
HUN
WR
#232
155 Points - Andre Pierre KASES
AUT
WR
#269
120 Points - Brin VOVK PETROVSKI
SLO
WR
#278
112 Points - Mark JUHASZ
AUT
WR
#284
108 Points - Matyas LEBEDA
CZE
WR
#288
105 Points - Marc SAGAWE
AUT
WR
#295
100 Points - Hayate SUZUKI
JPN
WR
#303
90 Points - Iker GONZALEZ
ESP
WR
#304
90 Points - Jose GUILLOT
ESP
WR
#333
75 Points - Aleksi RASANEN
FIN
WR
#334
74 Points - Jan Noa NEMETH
AUT
WR
#336
73 Points - Anton KAHOFER
AUT
WR
#387
50 Points - Pau LLORET
ESP
WR
#401
45 Points - Florian BICHLER
AUT
WR
#426
37 Points - Stephan WYSS
AUT
WR
#442
31 Points - Alexandre QUEIROZ
POR
WR
#636
10 Points - Alan KULCZYCKI
POL
WR
#670
8 Points - Chaitanya VEPA
SUI
WR
#775
5 Points - PARK Changgeon
KOR - LIM Yunoh
KOR - Ryoichi YOSHIYAMA
JPN - Siddharth Kumar VEPA
SUI - Paul SZILAGYI
ROU - Puripong SAELEE
THA - Sitisak NUCHCHART
THA - Mihai ROSCA
ROU - OH Junsung
KOR - Matei DUMITRESCU
ROU - Clarence CHENG
AUS - Joshua BRUCE
ENG - Erik SEPER
AUT - Angel RODRIGUEZ
ESP - Kento WALTL
AUT
When and where can you watch the WTT Youth Contender Linz: live stream and telecast
Table tennis lovers may subscribe to WTT’s official YouTube channel, which is free to watch.
The event will be televised live on Fox More in Australia, while Indian fans may watch it on WTT’s official Facebook page.