2017 ITTF Challenge Series

The 2017 ITTF Challenge Series was the inaugural season of the International Table Tennis Federation's secondary professional table tennis tour, a level below the ITTF World Tour.[1]

ITTF Challenge Series

Tournament details
Dates	15 March 2017 – 26 November 2017
Edition	1st
2018 →

Schedule

Below is the schedule released by the ITTF:[2]

Tour	Event	Location	Venue	Date		Prize money (USD)	Ref.
				Start	Finish
1	Belarus Open	Minsk	Minsk Tennis Palace	March 15	March 19	40,000	[3]
2	Thailand Open	Bangkok	Fashion Island - Island Hall	March 29	April 2	35,000	[4]
3	Chile Open	Santiago	Centro de Entrenamiento Olímpico	April 26	April 30	35,000	[5]
4	Slovenia Open	Otočec	Otočec Sports Centre	April 26	April 30	35,000	[6]
5	Zagreb Open	Zagreb	Zagreb Hall of Sports	May 2	May 6	35,000	[7]
6	Brazil Open	São Paulo	Brazilian Paralympic Center	May 3	May 7	25,000	[8]
7	Pyongyang Open	Pyongyang	Pyongyang Table Tennis Hall	August 2	August 6	35,000	[9]
8	Nigerian Open	Lagos	Sir Molade Okoya-Thomas Indoor Hall	August 9	August 13	46,000	[10]
9	Polish Open	Częstochowa	Częstochowa Sport Hall	October 4	October 8	35,000	[11]
10	Belgium Open	De Haan	Sport en Recreatiecentrum Haneveld	October 31	November 4	35,000	[12]
11	Spanish Open	Almeria	Palacio de los Juegos del Mediterráneo	November 22	November 26	70,000	[13]

Winners

Event	Men's singles	Women's singles	Men's doubles	Women's doubles	U21 Men's singles	U21 Women's singles
Belarus Open	Vladimir Samsonov	Hitomi Sato	Daniel Górak Wang Zengyi	Miyu Kato Misaki Morizono	Cristian Pletea	Saki Shibata
Thailand Open	Jin Ueda	Hitomi Sato	Kenji Matsudaira Jin Ueda	Honoka Hashimoto Hitomi Sato	Yuma Tsuboi	Saki Shibata
Chile Open	Soumyajit Ghosh	Caroline Kumahara	Amalraj Anthony Soumyajit Ghosh	Ana Codina Candela Molero	Horacio Cifuentes	Valentina Rios
Slovenia Open	Bastian Steger	Hitomi Sato	Choi Won-jin Lee Jung-woo	Matilda Ekholm Georgina Póta	Yuki Matsuyama	Adriana Diaz
Zagreb Open	Panagiotis Gionis	Honoka Hashimoto	Viktor Brodd Hampus Nordberg	Honoka Hashimoto Hitomi Sato	Koyo Kanamitsu	Adina Diaconu
Brazil Open	Hugo Calderano	Bernadette Szőcs	Hugo Calderano Gustavo Tsuboi	Bernadette Szőcs Audrey Zarif	Andrea Landrieu	Bruna Takahashi
Pyongyang Open	Pak Sin-hyok	Kim Song-i	Choe Il Pak Sin-hyok	Choe Hyon-hwa Kim Song-i	Kim Ok-chan	Ri Hyon-sim
Nigerian Open	Omar Assar	Dina Meshref	Antoine Hachard Gregoire Jean	Bernadett Balint Szandra Pergel	Youssef Abdel-Aziz	Giorgia Piccolin
Polish Open	Quadri Aruna	Mima Ito	Ho Kwan Kit Ng Pak Nam	Doo Hoi Kem Lee Ho Ching	Mizuki Oikawa	Nina Mittelham
Belgian Open	Kim Dong-hyun	Saki Shibata	Patrick Franziska Ricardo Walther	Honoka Hashimoto Hitomi Sato	Shunsuke Togami	Li Yu-jhun
Spanish Open	Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	Hina Hayata	Cho Seung-min Park Gang-hyeon	Jeon Ji-hee Yang Ha-eun	Lam Siu Hang	Satsuki Odo

See also

• 2017 World Table Tennis Championships
• 2017 ITTF Men's World Cup
• 2017 ITTF Women's World Cup
• 2017 ITTF World Tour
• 2017 in table tennis

References

1. "A motivating force, the Challenge tournaments". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
2. "2017 ITTF Challenge Series Events". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
3. "2017 ITTF Challenge Belgosstrakh Belarus Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
4. "2017 ITTF Challenge Thailand Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
5. "2017 ITTF Challenge Seamster Chile Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
6. "2017 ITTF Challenge Slovenia Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
7. "2017 ITTF Challenge Zagreb Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
8. "2017 ITTF Challenge Seamster Brazil Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
9. "2017 ITTF Challenge Pyongyang Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
10. "2017 ITTF Challenge Seamster Nigerian Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
11. "2017 ITTF Challenge Polish Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
12. "2017 ITTF Challenge Belgian Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
13. "2017 ITTF Challenge Spanish Open". ITTF. Retrieved 9 September 2018.