Who do you think will win the 2015 Men's World Cup?

  • Ma Long

    Votes: 40 49.4%
  • Fan Zhendong

    Votes: 29 35.8%
  • Dimitrij Ovtcharov

    Votes: 2 2.5%
  • Jun Mizutani

    Votes: 3 3.7%
  • Marcos Freitas

    Votes: 4 4.9%
  • Chuang Chih Yuan

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • Koki Niwa

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Tang Peng

    Votes: 1 1.2%
  • Gao Ning

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Other (Post Below)

    Votes: 1 1.2%

  • Total voters
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This years Men's World cup will be held in Halmstad, Sweden from the 16th October to 18th October 2015. Recent World Champion Ma Long has entered as the number 1 seed, followed closely by Fan Zhendong the no.2 seed. Will we will an all China final? Can newly crowned European Champion Dimitrij Ovtcharov take the title? Japan's number 1 Jun Mizutani enters as the number 4 seed. Freitas is also in fine form at the moment!

This is going to be a fantastic event, Why? All you need is to look at the seeds and all is clear!

Live matches from the Men's World Cup can be watched in the ITTF Live Streaming which has playback on demand with integrated chat!

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China's Ma Long, the World #1 has entered the Men's World Cup as the #1 seed.

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Ma Long - Photo by: ITTF FB Page

Men's Singles Seeds

01) Ma Long
02) Fan Zhendong
03) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
04) Jun Mizutani
05) Marcos Freitas
06) Chuang Chih Yuan
07) Koki Niwa
08) Tang Peng
09) Gao Ning
10) Tiago Apolonia
11) Gionis Panagiotis
12) Robert Gardos
13) Simon Gauzy
14) Omar Assar
15) Sharath Kamal Achanta
16) Gustavo Tsuboi
17) Kristian Karlsson
18) Anton Kallberg
19) William Henzell
20) Jimmy Butler

Keep up to date on any changes from the entries here..

Live matches from the Men's World Cup can be watched in the ITTF Live Streaming which has playback on demand with integrated chat!

We can use this thread as a means to display all the latest results, videos and news from this prestigious event! What are your predictions? Who will be crowned the 2015 Men's World Cup Champion?
 
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Why is Xu Xin not in that list?

Xu Xin was replaced by Fan Zhendong at the last minute. Xu Xin himself was confused and showed his emotion in his social media Weibo. People suspect that this change is made to for several reasons:
1. More challenge for Ma Long. Ma Long has lost to Fan Zhendong three times in the super league this year, and lost to him in the National Champions last year. It's always intense when Ma Long plays with Fan Zhendong. This experience would improve the of Ma Long mentally when facing his worst favorite player. While if Xu Xin plays, the title will almostly goes to Ma Long without doubt because Ma Long has huge advantage when facing Xu Xin. Their H2H record proves that.
2. A chance for Fan Zhendong. Fan was kind of raped by Captain Long in the semi of the WTTC, which is quite odd according to their previous encounters. Fan claims he wasn't in good shape because he slept later than 1 am the previous day for the Men's double final, while that semi was early in the morning. He should have played better. Fan beaten Ma Long several times in domestic games, but rarely achieve that in international games. Coach Liu want to give him a chance to see what he can achieve in a better form in a bigger stadium.

If Fan can win the World Cup title, he has a good chance to Rio if Zhang Jike cannot recover well.
 
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Xu Xin was replaced by Fan Zhendong at the last minute. Xu Xin himself was confused and showed his emotion in his social media Weibo. People suspect that this change is made to for several reasons:
1. More challenge for Ma Long. Ma Long has lost to Fan Zhendong three times in the super league this year, and lost to him in the National Champions last year. It's always intense when Ma Long plays with Fan Zhendong. This experience would improve the of Ma Long mentally when facing his worst favorite player. While if Xu Xin plays, the title will almostly goes to Ma Long without doubt because Ma Long has huge advantage when facing Xu Xin. Their H2H record proves that.
2. A chance for Fan Zhendong. Fan was kind of raped by Captain Long in the semi of the WTTC, which is quite odd according to their previous encounters. Fan claims he wasn't in good shape because he slept later than 1 am the previous day for the Men's double final, while that semi was early in the morning. He should have played better. Fan beaten Ma Long several times in domestic games, but rarely achieve that in international games. Coach Liu want to give him a chance to see what he can achieve in a better form in a bigger stadium.

If Fan can win the World Cup title, he has a good chance to Rio if Zhang Jike cannot recover well.

This is interesting. Xu Xin must not be happy at all. China is so tough, if I was in their position I would have no idea who to choose for the Olympic team in Rio as they all rightly deserve a shot :)

Fan Zhenong has won 3 times against Ma Long in the China Super League that is impressive as Ma Long is usually unstoppable in the China Super league. I agree also that when Ma Long and Fan Zhendong play now it is intense... similar to the feeling when Ma Long and Zhang Jike use to play one another a few years ago.
 
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