2018 ITTF Men's World Cup

2018 ITTF Men's World Cup
Venue Disneyland Paris
Location Paris, France
Date 19–21 October
Competitors 20
Website tt2018paris.com

The 2018 ITTF Men's World Cup is a table tennis competition scheduled to be held in Paris, France, from 19 to 21 October 2018. It will be the 39th edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event, and the third time that it has been staged in Paris.[1]

Qualification

In total, 20 players qualified for the World Cup:[2][3]

  • 18 players from the five Continental Cups held during 2018
  • A host association representative
  • A wild card, selected by the ITTF

A maximum of two players from each association can qualify.

As reigning World Champion, China's Ma Long was invited to take part, but withdrew prior to the event. His place was taken by Lin Gaoyuan.

Means of qualificationDateVenuePlacesQualified players
2018 Europe Top 16 Cup3–4 February 2018Switzerland Montreux3Germany Timo Boll
Germany Dimitrij Ovtcharov
Denmark Jonathan Groth
2018 ITTF Africa Top 16 Cup1–3 March 2018Kenya Nairobi1Nigeria Quadri Aruna[nb 1]
2018 ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup6–8 April 2018Japan Yokohama3China Fan Zhendong
China Lin Gaoyuan
South Korea Lee Sang-su
2018 ITTF-Oceania Cup18–19 May 2018Vanuatu Port Vila1Australia Hu Heming
2018 ITTF Pan-America Cup15–17 June 2018Paraguay Asunción2Brazil Hugo Calderano
Brazil Gustavo Tsuboi
Additional qualifiers[nb 2]n/an/a8South Korea Jeong Sang-eun
Japan Tomokazu Harimoto
Japan Koki Niwa
Hong Kong Wong Chun Ting
Belarus Vladimir Samsonov
Sweden Mattias Falck
United States Kanak Jha
Greece Panagiotis Gionis
Host association representativen/an/a1France Simon Gauzy
ITTF wild cardn/an/a1France Emmanuel Lebesson
Total20
Notes
  1. ↑ Egypt's Omar Assar won the Africa Cup, but Quadri Aruna (as runner-up) qualified for the World Cup as the Africa Cup representative when Assar withdrew.
  2. ↑ Based on Continental Cup finishing position and ITTF World Ranking on 1 July 2018.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Disneyland Paris to host 2018 ITTF Men's World Cup". InsideTheGames. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Qualification and Playing System / Men's and Women's World Cup" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Confirmed list of players - Liebherr 2018 ITTF Men ́s World Cup" (PDF). ITTF. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
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