The women played brilliantly too. The many successes they gathered this year paid off! National German player Zhenqi Barthel and Romanian hope Elizabeta Samara qualified for the Grand Finals U21 women singles. In the preliminary round, Barthel beat the quadruple cadet European Champion Samara.
She lost the semi-finals. The finals of the above U21 women singles were Chinese only. Even the quarter-finals were dominated by super-power Asia. The only European who reached the 8th finals was TIBHAR player Liu "Susi" Jia. She lost against WR n° 6 Feng Tianwei 3 to 4.

Parallels exist between women and men singles. Chinese finals; semi-finals: 3 players out of 4 are Chinese; quarter-finals: out of 7 players, 5 are Chinese. Only one European is represented: TIBHAR superstar Vladimir Samsonov once again! He sucessfully won the quarter-finals 4 to 1 against Hong-Kong Chinese Jiang Tianyi. He lost the semi-finals against WR n° 1 Wang Hao.

Last but not least, the semi-finals in doubles saw the pair Emmanuel Lebesson and his national team collegue Mattenet and the pair Elizabeta Samara and her national team collegue Dodean loose 2 to 4 against world class doubles from Asia.