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The 2017 China Open has been filled with the talk of the Chinese players withdrawing but the tournament did go on for everyone else. The German legends Timo Boll and Dimitrij Ovtcharov faced off in a great final with
Timo Boll having 4 match points in the deciding 7th game only to lose. The 13-year old Japanese phenom Tomokazu Harimoto reached the semis only to lose to Boll. Harimoto defeated legend Vladimir Samsonov 4-3 and World #9 teammate Koki Niwa 4-0 in the quarters.
In the women’s event, Ding Ning defeated rising star and teammate Sun Yingsha, who just won the Japan Open last week, in the final. Sun had won 5 of her 6 matches 4-0 in games until the final (the remaining being 4-2).
Here’s highlights of the German teammates men’s singles final:
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