European Championships 2008

Mens Singles Results

The European Championships 2008.
Nine days of intense action in St Petersburg, Russia ...

The European Table Tennis Championships first took place in 1958 in Hungary.

Initially it was a biennial event, taking place in even numbered years, but now it's held every year during the months of September or October.

2008 sees St Petersburg, Russia host this prestigious event from 4-12 October.

So what events are included?

Events included

The European Championships events are ...

Mens Team - Results here ...
Womens Team - Results here ...
Mens Singles
Womens Singles - Results here ...
Mens Doubles - Results here ...
Womens Doubles - Results here ...

Format of events

Individual Events ...

Individual events are played on a knockout basis.

Matches in individual events are the best of 7 games, except doubles events up to the quarter-finals, which are the best of 5 games.

There are a maximum 128 places in the 1st round proper of the singles events and not more than 64 places in the 1st round proper of men's and women's doubles events.

Qualification rounds will be in groups of 3 to 8 players using a knock-out system.

Numbers

The organising Association can enter up to 16 players, consisting of not more than 10 men and not more than 10 women.

Any other Association can enter up to 10 players, consisting of not more than 6 men and not more than 6 women.

Within these limits different players can be entered for the team events and for the singles and doubles.

Seeding

Seeding for team events will be on the basis of the final positions in the previous European Championships.

Seeding for individual events will be based on the last European Ranking List published before the championships.

Seeding for doubles events will be on the basis of a seeding list prepared by the Ranking Committee.

2007 medallists

The last European Table Tennis Championships were held in Belgrade, Serbia in 2007 and the winner was Timo Boll of Germany and the runners-up was Vladimir Samsonov of Belarus.

European Championships 2008

Men's Singles Event Results

Last 32

Friday 10 October 2008

Winner	Result	Loser
SAMSONOV, Vladimir (BLR)	4-2	MATTENET, Adrien (FRA)
STEGER, Bastian (GER)	4-2	GERELL, Par (SWE)
KEINATH, Thomas (SVK)	4-1	TOMASI, Stefano (ITA)
CHEN, Weixing (AUT)	4-1	DRINKHALL, Paul (ENG)
SAIVE, Jean-Michel (BEL)	4-2	BAUM, Patrick (GER)
GARDOS, Robert (AUT)	4-0	PISTEJ, Lubomir (SVK)
MONTEIRO, Joao (POR)	4-1	KORBEL, Petr (CZE)
OVTCHAROV, Dimitrij (GER)	4-1	KARAKASEVIC, Aleksandar (SRB)

SCHLAGER, Werner (AUT)	4-0	SEREDA, Peter (SVK)
KUZMIN, Fedor (RUS)	4-1	ZWICKL, Daniel (HUN)
HE, Zhi Wen (ESP)	4-2	GRUJIC, Slobodan (SRB)
LUNDQVIST, Jens (SWE)	4-2	CRISAN, Adrian (ROU)
MAZE, Michael (DEN)	4-0	PAZSY, Ferenc (HUN)
SMIRNOV, Alexei (RUS)	4-2	WANG, Zeng Yi (POL)
TOKIC, Bojan (SVN)	4-0	SVENSSON, Robert (SWE)
BOLL, Timo (GER)	4-0	FREITAS, Marcos (POR)

Last 16

Saturday 11 October 2008

Winner	Result	Loser
SAMSONOV, Vladimir (BLR)	4-3	STEGER, Bastian (GER)
CHEN, Weixing (AUT)	4-3	KEINATH, Thomas (SVK)
GARDOS, Robert (AUT)	4-1	SAIVE, Jean-Michel (BEL)
MONTEIRO, Joao (POR)	4-2	OVTCHAROV, Dimitrij (GER)

SCHLAGER, Werner (AUT)	4-1	KUZMIN, Fedor (RUS)
LUNDQVIST, Jens (SWE)	4-1	HE, Zhi Wen (ESP)
MAZE, Michael (DEN)	4-1	SMIRNOV, Alexei (RUS)
BOLL, Timo (GER)	4-0	TOKIC, Bojan (SVN)

Quarter Finals

Saturday 11 October 2008

Winner	Result	Loser
SAMSONOV, Vladimir (BLR)	4-0	CHEN, Weixing (AUT)
GARDOS, Robert (AUT)	4-0	MONTEIRO, Joao (POR)

SCHLAGER, Werner (AUT)	4-0	LUNDQVIST, Jens (SWE)
BOLL, Timo (GER)	4-2	MAZE, Michael (DEN)

Semi Finals

Sunday 12 October 2008

Winner	Result	Loser
SAMSONOV, Vladimir (BLR)	4-0	GARDOS, Robert (AUT)
11-5, 11-6, 12-10, 11-4

BOLL, Timo (GER)	4-0	SCHLAGER, Werner (AUT)
11-7, 11-5, 11-3, 11-5