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2019 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's Singles
The men's singles competition of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships was held from 23 to 28 April 2019. Ma Long defended his title by defeating Mattias Falck 11–5, 11–7, 7–11, 11–9, 11–5 in the final. Seeds # Fan Zhendong ''(fourth round)'' # Xu Xin ''(third round)'' # Lin Gaoyuan ''(quarterfinals)'' # Tomokazu Harimoto ''(fourth round)'' # Timo Boll ''(fourth round)'' # Lee Sang-su ''(fourth round)'' # Hugo Calderano ''(fourth round)'' # Koki Niwa ''(quarterfinals)'' # Liang Jingkun ''(semifinals)'' # Jang Woo-jin ''(quarterfinals)'' # Ma Long (champion) # Dimitrij Ovtcharov ''(third round)'' # Jun Mizutani ''(third round)'' # Wong Chun Ting ''(first round)'' # Liam Pitchford ''(second round)'' # Mattias Falck ''(final)'' # Patrick Franziska ''(third round)'' # Vladimir Samsonov ''(third round)'' # Chuang Chih-yuan ''(second round)'' # Lin Yun-ju ''(second round)'' # Jeoung Young-sik ''(fourth round)'' # Quadri Aruna ''(third round)'' # ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jang Woo-jin
Jang Woo-jin (born 10 September 1995) is a South Korean table tennis player. Career Junior Jang started playing international matches from the South Korean cadet boys' team in 2009 – Bahrain Junior Open held in Manama, Bahrain. He won boys' singles title at the 2013 World Junior Table Tennis Championships. 2018 He won the gold medal in 2018 Korea Open held at Daejeon, South Korea without even having been a seeded player at the start of the tournament. He became the first-ever ITTF World Tour triple crown winner in this event as well by also winning gold medals in men's doubles and mixed doubles. 2020 In 2020 ITTF Men's World Cup, he was seeded at 12 and managed to reach up to semi-finals. Within a week from this world cup, in 2020 ITTF Finals, he was seeded at 14 and managed to reach semi-finals again. 2021 Jang Woojin represented South Korea at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after qualifying by virtue of being the highest ranked Korean player. In March, Jang played in the WTT S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Habesohn
Daniel Habesohn (born 22 July 1986) is an Austrian table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics and the 2020 Summer Olympics. Habesohn competed in the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships, upsetting Japanese player and number 15 seed Kenta Matsudaira but he then went on to lose to number 33 seed Lin Gaoyuan. He teamed with Robert Gardos in the men's doubles event, losing in the first round in a close match with the Belarusian duo of Vladimir Samsonov and Pavel Platonov. In the 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed as part of the Austrian team in the men's team event. Later, in the 2020 Summer Olympics, he participated in the men's singles event where he received a bye in the first round, defeated Clarence Chew in the second round, but eventually lost to Marcos Freitas Marcos André Sousa da Silva Freitas (born 8 April 1988) is a Portuguese table tennis player who won European Championships medals in singles, doubles, and team events. He represented Portu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (born 8 January 1993) is an Indian table tennis player, who is the highest ranked Indian men's singles player in the sport, currently ranked at 73 in the world as of 12 November 2024. He was a member of the Indian team that won back to back gold medals in the 2018 and 2022 Commonwealth Games. In May 2019, Sathiyan attained his career best World ranking of 24 and became the first Indian paddler ever to break into the World Top-25 ITTF rankings. He became the first Indian paddler to sign a contract with Okayama Rivets for the Japanese T-league. He has currently signed up with JURA MOREZ for the French PRO-A league. He is an employee of ONGC & currently being supported by the GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme. Achievements Sathiyan announced himself in the world stage in Table Tennis when he won the ITTF Challenge Belgium Open title in the men's singles category in September 2016. This was his first ITTF pro tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcos Freitas
Marcos André Sousa da Silva Freitas (born 8 April 1988) is a Portuguese table tennis player who won European Championships medals in singles, doubles, and team events. He represented Portugal four times at the Summer Olympics. Career Freitas participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics where he got knocked out in the round of 64. In the same year he won the bronze medal in the men's doubles at the European Championship with Tiago Apolónia. Three years later at the 2011 European Championships, he went on to win the gold medal with his doubles partner Andrej Gaćina. He took part on his second Olympics in 2012, reaching the round of 32 in the men's singles and the quarterfinals in the team event with Tiago Apolónia and João Monteiro. In 2014, Freitas won the Europe Cup title by defeating Michael Maze in the final. He continued to win another title at the ITTF World Tour Czech Open in a seven-game final against Patrick Baum. He also helped the Portuguese men's tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quadri Aruna
Quadri Akinade Aruna (born 9 August 1988) is a professional Nigerian table tennis player. He competed for Nigeria at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2016 Summer Olympics, and 2020 Summer Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals in 2016. He is the first African player to be ranked in the top 10 in the world. At the World Cup 2014, he reached the quarter-finals in the Men's Singles competition. In the 2017 ITTF World Challenge Bulgaria Open, he advanced to the semi-finals, where the eventual winner Dimitrij Ovtcharov defeated him in a tight match. Aruna is known for his forehand-oriented playing style, which has earned him many wins. He is a Gewo-sponsored player. In 2014, he was ranked number 30 in world table tennis, and the International Table Tennis Federation named him the Star Player of the Year. He was also part of the Nigerian team that won bronze at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. At the club level, Aruna Quadri recently teamed up with TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberzell, a top Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeoung Young-sik
Jeoung Young-sik (also Jeong or Jung, , born 20 January 1992) is a South Korean table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ... player. He debuted internationally in 2010 and won a silver and a bronze medal at the Asian Games. Between 2010 and 2018 he won six bronze medals at the world championships. He reached the world ranking #7 in February 2017. His father Jeoung Hae-chul was also a competitive table tennis player. Career 2021 Jeoung completed his mandatory military service from mid-2019 to March 2021. He will be representing South Korea at the Tokyo Olympics in the team event as well as the men's singles event. Jeoung upset Timo Boll in the round of 16 to reach the quarter-finals of the Tokyo Olympics, where he lost to Fan Zhendong. Following the Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lin Yun-ju
Lin Yun-Ju ( born 17 August 2001) is a Taiwanese table tennis player.Table Tennis LIN Yun Ju – Tokyo 2020 Olympics ''Tokyo 2020 Olympics''. Retrieved 30 July 2021. He is a left-handed player who plays with the shakehand grip. Career Lin began playing table tennis in third grade. He started competing on the (ITTF) senior circuit in 2016. At age 14, he officially became a member of the national team at the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuang Chih-yuan
Chuang Chih-yuan (; born 2 April 1981) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. He won the ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals in 2002 and doubles title at the 2013 World Table Tennis Championships. He participated in the Summer Olympics six times, making the most appearances at the Olympic Games among Taiwanese athletes. Career in table tennis Chuang's parents were both table tennis players in Taiwan. His father was a national doubles champion, and his mother Lee Kuei-mei was a member of the national team. After the end of Lee's career as a player, her son, Chih-yuan, became one of her protégés in table tennis. Chuang started competing in 1989, at the age of eight. From the age of 13 his mother sent him to China for training several times. Chuang first made it to the Taiwan national team in 1998. In 1999, Chuang made his World Championships and ITTF Pro Tour debut. At the end of 2000, his mother decided to let Chuang train in Europe, including France and Germany. The process made his m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Samsonov
Vladimir Samsonov or Uładzimir Samsonau (, , born 17 April 1976) is a Belarusian former professional table tennis player. He is known in China as the "Tai Chi Master" because of his superb all-around style, both offensive and defensive.Vladimir Samsonov nbcolympics.com Samsonov competed at six consecutive Olympics between 1996 and 2016, placing fourth individually in Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2016, in addition to equal fifth in Table tennis at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 1996 and Table tennis at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2000. Career Samsonov is also known as Mr. ECL (European Champions League (table tennis), European Champions League), for winning a record 13 ECL titles (including two of its predecessor ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Franziska
Patrick Franziska (born 11 June 1992) is a German table tennis player. He is currently sponsored by Butterfly and plays with FC Saarbrücken-TT in the German Bundesliga (TTBL). Career 2010 In 2010, Franziska won the junior boys singles gold medal at the European Youth Championships. He also won the Europe Youth TOP 10 in Slovakia. In December, he won bronze medals in men's doubles and men's team at the 2010 World Junior Table Tennis Championships. In this year, he joined the German National Team to win the men's team gold medal at the 2010 European Table Tennis Championships. 2021 Patrick Franziska represented Germany at the postponed Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, where he won the silver medal with the men's team. In March, he entered the WTT Star Contender event at WTT Doha, but lost 11–9 in the fifth to Sharath Kamal. 2022 Franziska won bronze at the Europe Top 16 Cup. He finished second at the WTT Contender Tunis 2022, losing against Anton Kallberg in the men's s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liam Pitchford
Liam Benjamin Pitchford (born 12 July 1993) is an English table tennis player. He is sponsored by JOOLA. Career Pitchford began playing table tennis when he was eight years old. He won the British Home Countries Championship in 2009, and two Commonwealth Games medals in 2010 (Silver in Team and Bronze in Doubles). In the summer of 2011, he transferred to German club TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen in the top division, the Bundesliga, having played for second division club FC Tegernheim the previous season. From 2009 to 2010 Pitchford played for Aarhus BTK in the best Danish league. In July 2014, his contract with Ochsenhausen was extended by three years. In the autumn of 2011, he beat World number nine Vladimir Samsonov and World junior number three Wu Jiaji in international competitions, paving his route to becoming number one in the English rankings in November 2011. He finished the year with a career-high World ranking of 171 to become the third highest-ranked British player on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
