The 2019 Marvellous 12 () was a qualifying event organized by the

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, Tencent Sports and Shenzhen Municipal Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau. It will be held in

Shenzhen Shenzhen is a prefecture-level city in the province of Guangdong, China. A Special economic zones of China, special economic zone, it is located on the east bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of Guangdong ...

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from 28 February to 3 March, 2019. It was the second edition of the tournament, and the second time that it have been held in Shenzhen. Winners and runners-up of the men's and women's singles event, namely

Fan Zhendong Fan Zhendong (, pronounced ; born 22 January 1997) is a Chinese professional table tennis player. After joining the Chinese national table tennis team in 2012 as the youngest member, he went on to become the youngest ITTF World Tour Champion a ...

Liang Jingkun Liang Jingkun (; born 20 October 1996) is a Chinese professional table tennis player. He is a four-time bronze medalist in men's singles at the World Table Tennis Championships. Career A top junior player with huge potential, Liang made a break ...

Chen Meng Chen Meng (; born 15 January 1994) is a Chinese professional table tennis player and Olympic champion. She joined the provincial team when she was 9 and joined the national team when she was only 13 in 2007. She is the women's singles champion o ...

, and

Sun Yingsha Sun Yingsha (; born 4 November 2000) is a Chinese professional table tennis player, Olympic champion, and World Champion. She is the current world No. 1 in women's singles. Sun is the reigning Olympic gold medallist in mixed doubles with Wang ...

, was each guaranteed a spot to represent China in the

2019 World Table Tennis Championships The 2019 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Budapest, Hungary from 21 to 28 April 2019. It was the 55th edition of the championships, and the fourth time that they were held in Budapest. Schedule Five events were contested, with qualif ...

Format and participants

Six top ranked men and women players in China automatically qualify to the events. Six additional players to each event were decided in a closed competition held from 12 to 17 February. Twelve players in each event compete in a Round-Robin format. The winners of each event qualify to the single's event of the

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, while the runners-up are each guaranteed a spot in the team's final squad.

Men's singles

* Ma Long Ma Long ( zh, s=马龙, p=Mǎ Lóng; born 20 October 1988) is a Chinese professional table tennis player. He is a two-time Olympic champion, three-time World Champion, and three-time World Cup champion in men's singles. Widely regarded as the g ...
(''withdrew due to injury'') *

* Xu Xin *

Wang Chuqin Wang Chuqin (; , pronounced ; born 11 May 2000) is a Chinese professional table tennis player, Olympic champion, and World Champion. He is currently ranked world No.2 in men's singles. Wang is the reigning Olympic gold medallist in mixed doub ...

Lin Gaoyuan Lin Gaoyuan (; born 19 March 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player. He was the Asian Cup champion in 2017, and was a member of the Chinese teams that took the gold medals at the World Team Championships in 2018 and 2022 The year beg ...

Fang Bo Fang Bo (; born November 6, 1992) is a Chinese male table tennis player. In 2002, Fang Bo became a member of the Shandong Luneng table tennis club. In 2009, he joined the China national table tennis first team. In the same year December 2009, h ...

* Xu Chenhao * Zhou Kai * Zhao Zihao * Yu Ziyang * Xue Fei * Yan An (''replaced Ma Long'')

Women's singles

Ding Ning Ding Ning (; born 20 June 1990) is a former Chinese table tennis player. She was the winner of 2011 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's singles, women's singles in the 2011 World Table Tennis Championships. At the 2015 World Table Ten ...

Liu Shiwen Liu Shiwen (; born 12 April 1991) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is a five-time World Cup champion, one-time World Champion, three-time ITTF World Tour Grand Finals champion and four-time Asian Cup champion. She is known to be one of the ...

Zhu Yuling Zhu Yuling (; born 10 January 1995) is a Chinese table tennis player representing Macau. Career Zhu was born in Mianyang in 1995 and began playing table tennis at the age of five, as it kept her occupied while she was ill. At the age of nine, s ...

* Wang Manyu *

Wu Yang Wu Yang (; born January 5, 1992) is a Chinese 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, c ...

* Gu Yuting *

* Wang Yidi * Sun Mingyang *

He Zhuojia He Zhuojia (, born 25 October 1998) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is one of the few top players utilizing long pips. She won the 2014 Argentina Open when she was 15 years old. She also had a memorable run at the 2018 ITTF World Tour Gra ...

Chen Xingtong Chen Xingtong (; born 27 May 1997) is a Chinese 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, ...

Events

Men's singles

Women's singles

References

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External links

Official website
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