Men's World Cup 2018

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The 2018 World Cup!

This years Men's World cup will be held in Paris, France from the 19th October to 21st October 2018. The total price money for the event is $250,000 US dollars! World number 1 Fan Zhendong has confirmed his participation as the number 1 seed. Timo Boll comes in as seed 2, followed by Lin Gaoyuan and then Dimitrij Ovtcharov.

This is going to be a fantastic tournament, Why? All you need is to look at the seeds below!

Watch the World Cup unfold on the live streaming here.

Main Draw

Main Draw


China's Fan Zhendong, the World #1 has entered the Men's World Cup as the #1 seed.

Fan Zhendong - Photo by: ITTF Flickr

Men's Singles Seeds

01) Fan Zhendong
02) Timo Boll
03) Lin Gaoyuan
04) Dimitrij Ovtcharov
05) Lee Sangsu
06) Tomokazu Harimoto
07) Wong Chun Ting
08) Hugo Calderano
09) Simon Gauzy
10) Koki Niwa
11) Jonathan Groth
12) Mattias Falck
13) Quadri Aruna
14) Jeong Sangeun
15) Vladimir Samsonov
16) Emmanuel Lebesson
17) Gustavo Tsuboi
18) Kanak Jha
19) Panagiotis Gionis
20) Heming Hu

Live matches from the Men's World Cup can be watched in the ITTF Live Streaming.

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 2018 Men's World Cup Champion? With 20 of the best players in the World fighting to win the Cup, who will be crowned champion? Fan Zhendong? Dimitrij Ovtcharov? Harimoto? Timo Boll? Others? Be sure to also vote in the poll and let us know in the posts below.

 

[eduardo1995filipe]

Mizutani, Jeoung Youngsik and Jang Woojin in group phase?

 

[Danny21312]

Mizutani, Jeoung Youngsik and Jang Woojin in group phase?

They're not participating.

 

[eduardo1995filipe]

They're not participating.

Why not?

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[Danny21312]

Why not?

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Because they weren't invited to the Asian Cup earlier this year and in order to be invited to the WC you need to be place in places 1-7 at the Asian Cup.

 

[eduardo1995filipe]

Because they weren't invited to the Asian Cup earlier this year and in order to be invited to the WC you need to be place in places 1-7 at the Asian Cup.

Didn't knew that! Thank you [emoji6]

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[FruitLoop]

No Ma Long for what is one of the major tournaments in table tennis is so weird.

 

[lVegita]

Hugo Calderano gg ez

 

[chintanmashroo]

Fan ZD vs Harimoto

Revenge time


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[usualsuspect]

Good luck to Kanak Jha! Hope he makes it out of group stage.

 

[TTHopeful]

No Ma Long for what is one of the major tournaments in table tennis is so weird.

He withdrew

 

[Loopadoop]

Good luck to Kanak Jha! Hope he makes it out of group stage.

His best win to date is vs a top 20 player on the pro tour.

 

[usualsuspect]

His best win to date is vs a top 20 player on the pro tour.

I remember Jha beat Wang Chun Ting last year or earlier this year. Can't remember what tournament. Anyway, I thought that was impressive.

 

[Loopadoop]

What seeds do you think will do the most damage above them ?

I think Harimoto #6 and Koki Niwa #10 will both upset higher seeded players.

 

[cayenne]

Jeong sangeun and calderano can make it imo..

 

[FunnyBunny]

​boys on the way...

 

[TTHopeful]

The groups came out today! Hugo vs Vladimir Samsonov !

 

[randman]

I vote Fan Zhendong

 

[Loopadoop]

Watch out for Harimoto. He might have extra motivation after losing in the Youth Olympic Games.

 

[usualsuspect]

I'm glad Kanak Jha got into one of the easier groups, with Gauzy and Aruna. This way, he at least has a chance.
Group A is a nightmare: Calderano, Samsonov, and Lebesson.