2013 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's singles

Zhang Jike successfully defended the title by defeating Wang Hao 11–7, 11–8, 6–11, 14–12, 5–11, 11–7 in the final.

Seeds
Singles matches were best of 7 games in qualification matches and best of 7 games in the 128-player sized main draw.


 * 1) 🇨🇳 Xu Xin (semifinals)
 * 2) 🇨🇳 Ma Long (semifinals)
 * 3) 🇨🇳 Wang Hao (final)
 * 4) 🇨🇳 Zhang Jike (champion)
 * 5) 🇩🇪 Timo Boll (quarterfinals)
 * 6)  Chuang Chih-yuan (fourth round)
 * 7) 🇩🇪 Dimitrij Ovtcharov (fourth round)
 * 8) 🇨🇳 Ma Lin (second round)
 * 9) 🇯🇵 Jun Mizutani (first round)
 * 10) 🇧🇾 Vladimir Samsonov (fourth round)
 * 11) 🇨🇳 Yan An (quarterfinals)
 * 12) 🇭🇰 Jiang Tianyi (first round)
 * 13)  Gao Ning (fourth round)
 * 14) 🇷🇴 Adrian Crișan (second round)
 * 15) 🇯🇵 Koki Niwa (fourth round)
 * 16)  Marcos Freitas (fourth round)
 * 17) 🇩🇪 Bastian Steger (second round)
 * 18) 🇫🇷 Adrien Mattenet (second round)
 * 19)  Chen Chien-an (third round)
 * 20) 🇩🇪 Patrick Baum (quarterfinals)
 * 21) 🇭🇰 Tang Peng (third round)
 * 22) 🇯🇵 Taku Takakiwa (second round)
 * 23) 🇯🇵 Seiya Kishikawa (fourth round)
 * 24) 🇦🇹 Robert Gardos (fourth round)
 * 25) 🇦🇹 Chen Weixing (second round)
 * 26) 🇰🇷 Kim Min-Seok (second round)
 * 27) 🇨🇳 Fan Zhendong (third round)
 * 28) 🇯🇵 Kazuhiro Chan (third round)
 * 29)  Andrej Gaćina (third round)
 * 30)  Tiago Apolónia (third round)
 * 31) 🇰🇵 Kim Hyok-Bong  (first round)
 * 32) 🇰🇷 Jung Young-Sik (second round)
 * 33) 🇰🇷 Lee Sang-Su (second round)
 * 34) 🇦🇹 Werner Schlager (second round)
 * 35)  Noshad Alamian (third round)
 * 36) 🇷🇺 Kirill Skachkov (second round)
 * 37) 🇸🇮 Bojan Tokič (third round)
 * 38) 🇧🇷 Cazuo Matsumoto (second round)
 * 39)  Panagiotis Gionis (second round)
 * 40) 🇯🇵 Kenta Matsudaira (quarterfinals)
 * 41) 🇰🇷 Seo Hyun-Deok (first round)
 * 42) 🇷🇺 Alexey Smirnov (third round)
 * 43) 🇩🇪 Patrick Franziska (second round)
 * 44)  João Monteiro (second round)
 * 45) 🇰🇷 Cho Eon-Rae (third round)
 * 46) 🇭🇰 Leung Chu Yan (second round)
 * 47) 🇸🇪 Jens Lundqvist (third round)
 * 48) 🇭🇰 Cheung Yuk (second round)
 * 49) 🇮🇳 Sharath Kamal (second round)
 * 50)  Kalinikos Kreanga (third round)
 * 51) 🇫🇷 Emmanuel Lebesson (third round)
 * 52) 🇸🇪 Pär Gerell (second round)
 * 53) 🇪🇸 He Zhi Wen (third round)
 * 54) 🇪🇬 El-sayed Lashin (first round)
 * 55) 🇵🇱 Daniel Gorak (first round)
 * 56) 🇧🇷 Gustavo Tsuboi (second round)
 * 57) 🇦🇹 Daniel Habesohn (second round)
 * 58) 🇹🇷 Bora Vang (first round)
 * 59)  Zoran Primorac (second round)
 * 60) 🇦🇹 Stefan Fegerl (second round)
 * 61) 🇮🇹 Mihai Bobocica (first round)
 * 62) 🇫🇷 Damien Éloi (second round)
 * 63) 🇭🇺 Ádám Pattantyús (second round)
 * 64) 🇵🇱 Wang Zengyi (second round)