2020 ITTF Men's World Cup

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2020 ITTF Men's World Cup
Location Weihai, China
Date13–15 November 2020
Competitors21
Medalists
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  2019
2021  

The 2020 ITTF Men's World Cup was a table tennis competition held in Weihai, China, from 13 to 15 November 2020. It was the 41st edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event. After series of cancellation of tournaments due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on sports this year, the ITTF World Cup is one of the three year-end tournaments that conclude the table tennis calendar in 2020. The other two, 2020 ITTF Finals and the inaugural World Table Tennis Macao), were also all held in November in China.

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Qualification

Competition format

The tournament consisted of two stages: a preliminary group stage and a knockout stage. The players seeded 9 to 21 were drawn into four groups. The top two players from each group then joined the top eight seeded players in the second stage of the competition, which consisted of a knockout draw.

Seeding

The seeding list was based on the official ITTF world ranking for November 2020. [1]

  1. Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fan Zhendong (champion)
  2. Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ma Long (final)
  3. Flag of Japan.svg Tomokazu Harimoto (semifinals)
  4. Flag of Brazil.svg Hugo Calderano (first round)
  5. Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Lin Yun-ju (quarterfinals)
  6. Flag of Sweden.svg Mattias Falck (quarterfinals)
  7. Flag of Germany.svg Dimitrij Ovtcharov (quarterfinals)
  8. Flag of Japan.svg Koki Niwa (first round)
  9. Flag of South Korea.svg Jeoung Young-sik (quarterfinals)
  10. Flag of England.svg Liam Pitchford (first round)
  11. Flag of Germany.svg Patrick Franziska (first round)
  12. Flag of South Korea.svg Jang Woo-jin (semifinals)
  13. Flag of Nigeria.svg Quadri Aruna (preliminary round)
  14. Flag of Hong Kong.svg Wong Chun Ting (first round)
  15. Flag of the United States.svg Kanak Jha (preliminary round)
  16. Flag of Austria.svg Robert Gardos (first round)
  17. Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chuang Chih-yuan (first round)
  18. Flag of Slovenia.svg Darko Jorgić (first round)
  19. Flag of Croatia.svg Tomislav Pucar (preliminary round)
  20. Flag of Brazil.svg Gustavo Tsuboi (preliminary round)
  21. Flag of Egypt.svg Ahmed Saleh (preliminary round)

Preliminary stage

The preliminary group stage took place on 13 November, with the top two players in each group progressing to the main draw. [2]

Main draw

The knockout stage took place from 14–15 November.

First round Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
1 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fan Zhendong 11111111
17 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chuang Chih-yuan 5 9 8 6 1 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fan Zhendong 129 11117 11
11 Flag of Germany.svg Patrick Franziska 13 117 116 2 5 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Lin Yun-ju 10 112 5 115
5 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Lin Yun-ju 158 118 11111 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fan Zhendong 11111311
8 Flag of Japan.svg Koki Niwa 134 14119 7 10 12 Flag of South Korea.svg Jang Woo-jin 5 8 11 8
12 Flag of South Korea.svg Jang Woo-jin 11 1112 8 11111212 Flag of South Korea.svg Jang Woo-jin 15112 117 11
9 Flag of South Korea.svg Jeoung Young-sik 1114 1110 11119 Flag of South Korea.svg Jeoung Young-sik 13 9 116 116
4 Flag of Brazil.svg Hugo Calderano 8 169 122 7 1 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fan Zhendong 3 1111117 7 11
3 Flag of Japan.svg Tomokazu Harimoto 111112112 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ma Long 118 3 6 11119
16 Flag of Austria.svg Robert Gardos 3 7 10 8 3 Flag of Japan.svg Tomokazu Harimoto 1111114 11
14 Flag of Hong Kong.svg Wong Chun Ting 117 12 126 1315 6 Flag of Sweden.svg Mattias Falck 9 8 9 119
6 Flag of Sweden.svg Mattias Falck 8 111410 1111 173 Flag of Japan.svg Tomokazu Harimoto 7 1111118 6 4 Third place
7 Flag of Germany.svg Dimitrij Ovtcharov 129 4 111311 112 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ma Long 113 6 8 111111
10 Flag of England.svg Liam Pitchford 10 11115 11 137 7 Flag of Germany.svg Dimitrij Ovtcharov 9 4 7 115 12 Flag of South Korea.svg Jang Woo-jin 11119 6 12 115
18 Flag of Slovenia.svg Darko Jorgić 7 149 1311 3 2 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ma Long 1111117 113 Flag of Japan.svg Tomokazu Harimoto 7 7 1111146 11
2 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ma Long 1112 1111 1311

See also

References

  1. "Seeding List". ITTF. Archived from the original on 4 November 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  2. "Dishang 2020 ITTF Men's World Cup group draw". ITTF. Archived from the original on 15 November 2020. Retrieved 15 November 2020.