Europe Top 16 Cup 2018 (table tennis)

2017 ← Europe Top 16 → 2019
	Men	Women
date	03-04 February
place	Switzerland Montreux
winner	Timo Boll Dimitrij Ovtcharov Jonathan GrothGermany Germany Denmark	Bernadette Szőcs Li Jie Elizabeta SamaraRomania Netherlands Romania

The table tennis Europe Top 16 2018 Cup was on 3 and 4 February at the Swiss Montreux instead. The defending champions were Dimitrij Ovtcharov for men and Li Jie for women , who both reached the final but lost to Timo Boll and Bernadette Szőcs, respectively.

qualification

The reigning individual European champions Emmanuel Lebesson and Melek Hu were qualified, as were the top 14 European players in the world rankings of December 2017 (without taking into account the European champions). Since there was no player from the host Switzerland among these 15 players for men and women, the host was allowed to name a further participant, otherwise the last place would also have been awarded via the world rankings. The wildcards went to Lionel Weber and Rachel Moret . Kristin Lang was not listed in the world rankings in December due to inactivity, but was placed in 15th place due to her previous placement. Marcos Freitas canceled shortly before the tournament, so that the substitute player was not determined by the December world rankings (then Paul Drinkhall would have received the place), but by the ETTU, who chose the 17th of the December European rankings , Kou Lei, who had finished fourth the year before and was the best-placed non-qualified European in February. An association was allowed to be represented by a maximum of four players.

player	WRL	ERL	Players	WRL	ERL
Germany Dimitrij Ovtcharov	3	1	Germany Han Ying	13	1
Germany Timo Boll	5	2	Netherlands Li Jie	23	2
France Simon Gauzy	11	3	Germany Shan Xiaona	27	3
Belarus Vladimir Samsonov	18th	4th	Romania Elizabeta Samara	30th	4th
Portugal Marcos Freitas	19th	5	Austria Liu Jia	32	5
Germany Ruwen Filus	23	6th	Hungary Georgina Póta	35	6th
Sweden Kristian Karlsson	27	7th	Turkey Melek Hu	35	7th
Russia Alexander Shibayev	29	8th	Austria Sofia Polcanova	37	8th
Germany Bastian Steger	30th	9	Germany Petrissa Solja	40	9
Denmark Jonathan Groth	32	10	Poland Li Qian	41	10
France Emmanuel Lebesson	33	11	Portugal Fu Yu	42	11
Portugal Tiago Apolonia	36	12	Sweden Matilda Ekholm	45	12
Sweden Mattias Karlsson	38	13	Romania Daniela Dodean	48	13
Greece Panagiotis Gionis	39	14th	Romania Bernadette Szőcs	57	14th
Austria Stefan Fegerl	41	15th	Germany Kristin Lang	inactive
Ukraine Kou Lei	44	17th	Sweden Li Fen	59	15th
Switzerland Lionel Weber	262	144	Luxembourg Ni Xialian	60	16
			Russia Polina Mikhailova	62	17th
			Germany Sabine Winter	65	18th
			Ukraine Tetyana Bilenko	70	19th
			Belarus Wiktoryja Paulovich	71	20th
			Switzerland Rachel Moret	159	57

no eligibility to play in world tournaments

no participation

Host wildcard

reigning European champion

mode

Unlike in previous years, there was no group stage. Instead, the participants played in the knockout system from the start . The semi-final losers played a game for third place, the top three automatically qualified for the World Cup .

Attendees

The first column indicates the final ranking, the columns "WRL" and "ERL" the world and European ranking positions from February 2018 relevant to the setting.

Item	Men	WRL	ERL	Women	WRL	ERL
1	Germany Timo Boll	3	2	Romania Bernadette Szőcs	40	11
2	Germany Dimitrij Ovtcharov	1	1	Netherlands Li Jie	10	1
3	Denmark Jonathan Groth	29	10	Romania Elizabeta Samara	24	4th
4th	Belarus Vladimir Samsonov	32	11	Sweden Matilda Ekholm	33	7th
5	Greece Panagiotis Gionis	91	42	Austria Liu Jia	38	10
	Sweden Mattias Karlsson	36	15th	Austria Sofia Polcanova	20th	2
	Russia Alexander Shibayev	62	26th	Hungary Georgina Póta	27	6th
	Germany Bastian Steger	33	12	Germany Sabine Winter	65	19th
9	Portugal Tiago Apolonia	34	13	Ukraine Tetyana Bilenko	124	46
	Austria Stefan Fegerl	47	20th	Romania Daniela Dodean	89	32
	Germany Ruwen Filus	20th	6th	Poland Li Qian	35	9
	France Simon Gauzy	9	3	Russia Polina Mikhailova	44	12
	Sweden Kristian Karlsson	19th	5	Switzerland Rachel Moret	85	29
	Ukraine Kou Lei	26th	8th	Luxembourg Ni Xialian	54	15th
	France Emmanuel Lebesson	24	7th	Belarus Wiktoryja Paulovich	49	13
	Switzerland Lionel Weber	171	79	Germany Petrissa Solja	64	18th