2019 ITTF Men's World Cup

The 2019 ITTF Men's World Cup was a table tennis competition held in Chengdu, China, from 29 November to 1 December 2019. It was the 40th edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event.

Qualification
In total, 20 players qualified for the World Cup:


 * The reigning World Champion
 * 18 players from the five Continental Cups held during 2019
 * A wild card, selected by the ITTF

A maximum of two players from each association could qualify.


 * Notes

Competition format
The tournament consisted of two stages: a preliminary group stage and a knockout stage. The players seeded 9 to 20 were drawn into four groups, with three players in each group. The top two players from each group 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 October 2019.

• # 🇨🇳 Fan Zhendong (champion)

• # 🇨🇳 Ma Long (semifinals)

• # 🇯🇵 Tomokazu Harimoto (final)

• # 🇧🇷 Hugo Calderano (quarterfinals)

• # 🇩🇪 Timo Boll (quarterfinals)

• # 🇸🇪 Mattias Falck (first round)

• # Lin Yun-ju (semifinals)

• # 🇯🇵 Koki Niwa (quarterfinals)

• # 🇩🇪 Dimitrij Ovtcharov (quarterfinals)

• # 🇰🇷 Lee Sang-su (first round)

• # Quadri Aruna (first round)

• # 🇫🇷 Simon Gauzy (first round)

• # 🇧🇾 Vladimir Samsonov (preliminary round)

• # Jonathan Groth (preliminary round)

• # 🇸🇪 Kristian Karlsson (first round)

• # 🇺🇸 Kanak Jha (first round)

• # 🇮🇳 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (first round)

• # 🇪🇬 Omar Assar (preliminary round)

• # 🇦🇹 Daniel Habesohn (first round)

• # 🇦🇺 Hu Heming (preliminary round)

Preliminary stage
The preliminary group stage took place on 29 November, with the top two players in each group progressing to the main draw.

Main draw
The knockout stage took place from 29 November to 1 December.