2019 ITTF Challenge Series explained

Duration:	13 February – 8 December
Edition:	3rd
Tournaments:	17
Categories:	Challenge Plus (6) Challenge (10)
Previous:	2018
Next:	2020

The 2019 ITTF Challenge Series was 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]

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		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		Feng Yi-hsin	Pyon Song-gyong
Nigerian Open	Quadri Aruna	Polina Mikhaylova	Cédric Nuytinck Quentin Robinot	Polina Mikhaylova Yana Noskova		Cristian Pletea	Andreea Dragoman
Paraguay Open	Masataka Morizono	Hina Hayata	Masataka Morizono Ľubomír Pištej	Honoka Hashimoto Maki Shiomi		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		Manav Thakkar	Wang Xiaotong

See also

• 2019 World Table Tennis Championships
• 2019 ITTF World Tour

External links

• International Table Tennis Federation
• 2019 ITTF Challenge Series

Notes and References

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