1979 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's singles

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1979 Men's singles
  1977
1981  

The 1979 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles was the 35th edition of the men's singles championship. [1] [2]

Contents

Seiji Ono defeated Guo Yuehua in the final [3] after Yuehua was forced to retire during the fourth set due to leg cramps. [4]

Results

[2]

Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Guo Yuehua 25 23 21
Flag of Yugoslavia (1946-1992).svg Dragutin Šurbek 23 21 19 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Yuehua 21 21 21
Flag of Japan.svg Norio Takashima 13 22 23 21 Flag of Japan.svg Takashima 15 14 17
Flag of Hungary.svg János Takács 21 20 21 17 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Guo Yuehua 21 21 17 21
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Li Zhenshi 21 15 29 21 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Li Zhenshi 17 16 21 15
Flag of Japan.svg Hideo Gotoh 11 21 27 17 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhenshi 22 21 21 21
Flag of Hungary.svg Gábor Gergely 19 21 24 18 22 Flag of Hungary.svg Gergely 20 10 14 17
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Shi Zhihao 21 9 22 21 20 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Guo Yuehua 23 17 21 1+
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lu Yaohua 21 21 13 21 Flag of Japan.svg Ono 25 21 18 2
Flag of Hungary.svg Tibor Klampár 15 16 21 12 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lu Yaohua 18 21 18 21 16
Flag of Japan.svg Seiji Ono 21 21 13 25 Flag of Japan.svg Ono 21 13 21 18 21
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Huang Liang 16 16 21 23 Flag of Japan.svg Ono 13 21 21 12 21
Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Josef Dvoracek 17 23 21 21 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liang Geliang 21 19 15 21 15
Flag of England.svg Desmond Douglas 21 21 10 7 Flag of the Czech Republic.svg Dvoracek 9 18 17
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liang Geliang 21 21 21 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liang Geliang 21 21 21
Flag of Hungary.svg István Jónyer 18 18 17

+ retired injured

See also

References

  1. "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
  2. 1 2 "1979 results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  3. Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN   0-316-72645-1.
  4. "PYONGYANG, North Korea, May 6". New York Times. 7 May 1979.