In two days (11th and 12th November), Moscow will host the event with highest prize money in Europe, The Liebherr Super Cup. The top players from Old continent are gathering in Russian capitol, and the best among the eight will go home with 50.000 dolars. At the competition wich will be held in nice sport hall Vidnoye, in the Moscow region, European champion Timo BOLL will defend crown he had won last year at the premiere
in the Kazan.
The other hot favorite for Moscow’s finale will be second European on the ITTF list Belarus Vladimir SAMSONOV.
At the list are Austrian Werner SCHLAGER, German Dimitrij OVTCHAROV, Swede Jorgen PERSSON, Dane Michael MAZE, and the host nation pride Igor RUBTSOV. Craot Zoran PRIMORAC will take a place instead of Romanian Adrian CRISAN who withdraw from the event.
BOLL is currently in great form and after winning in Saint Petersburg and on Austria’s Pro Tour he is everybodys favorite for regaining the first position in Super Cup. European champion lost only a set two weeks ago against Andrej GACINA, beating Chih Yuan CHUANG latter in final. At the same competition BOLL was better then PRIMORAC who reached the quarter finals. SCHLAGER and OVTCHAROV also were in Salzburg and both missing to reach semi final.
The Liebherr Super Cup is a competition which ETTU organized in cooperation with the Russian Table Tennis Federation. The deal between two partners were signed for three year, but the enthusiasm from RTTF - players, media and sponsors - are good announce for expanding of agreement.
The draw for the event will be held on Tuesday, 11th November in Hotel Milan, followed by press conference at 2 PM local time. Tuesday is reserved for the first round matches. In three round, players will play in two groups with four players each, round robin. The game starts at 4 PM with the Group A matches (1-3, 2-4). First Group B mathes
are scheduled for 5 PM. On Wednesday semi finals are scheduled for 5 and 6 PM, while the third place matches and final (broadcasted live on Eurosport) will play at 7.30 and 9. PM.
The total prize money fond is 120.000 US dollars. The winner who will won 50.000 USD, runner up 25.000, while the third and forth player will gain 15.000 and 10.000 USD. The players who will finished competition at the first day of event will gain 5.000 USD each.
Source: www.ittf.com
