2020 ITTF Men's World Cup

2020 ITTF Men's World Cup
LocationWeihai, China
Date13–15 November 2020
Competitors21
Medalists
gold medal China Fan Zhendong
silver medal China Ma Long
bronze medal Japan Tomokazu Harimoto
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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.

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

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.