The men's singles competition of the

2021 World Table Tennis Championships The 2021 World Table Tennis Championships was held in Houston, United States from 23 to 29 November. It was the 56th edition of the championships and the first time the competition was held in the United States. Houston became the host by beating ...

was held from 23 to 29 November 2021.

Ma Long Ma Long (; born 20 October 1988) is a Chinese table tennis player and the reigning Olympic singles champion. Widely regarded as the greatest table tennis player of all time, he is the first and only male player to complete a career Double Grand ...

was the three-time defending champion, but did not compete in this year's tournament.

Fan Zhendong Fan Zhendong (; born 22 January 1997) is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 for men's singles by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). After joining the Chinese National Table Tennis Team i ...

won the title after defeating Truls Möregårdh 11–6, 11–9, 11–7, 11–8.

Seeds

Seeding was based on the ITTF world ranking published on 16 November 2021. #

(Champion) # Tomokazu Harimoto ''(Second round)'' # Hugo Calderano ''(Quarterfinals)'' #

Lin Yun-ju Lin Yun-Ju ( born 17 August 2001) is a Taiwanese table tennis player.

''(Third round)'' # Lin Gaoyuan ''(Quarterfinals)'' # Liang Jingkun ''(Semifinals)'' #

Mattias Falck Mattias Falck (; né Karlsson) (born 7 September 1991) is a Swedish table tennis player. Career He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics as part of the Swedish team in the men's team event. Mattias won two medals at the 2016 European Table Tenn ...

''(Second round)'' #

Timo Boll Timo Boll (, ; born 8 March 1981) is a German professional table tennis player, who currently plays for Borussia Düsseldorf. He is ranked second in the German Table Tennis National League, and fifteen in the ITTF world rankings as of October 20 ...

''(Semifinals)'' #

Jang Woo-jin Jang Woo-jin (born 10 September 1995) is a South Korean table tennis player. He plays for Mirae Asset Daewoo table tennis team. Career Junior Jang started playing international matches from the South Korean cadet boys' team in 2009 – Bahrain J ...

''(First round)'' #

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 2021 Patrick Franziska represented Germany at the Tokyo ...

''(Third round)'' #

Liam Pitchford Liam Benjamin Pitchford (born 12 July 1993) is a British table tennis player. He is sponsored by Victas. Career Pitchford began playing table tennis when he was eight years old. He won the British Home Countries Championship in 2009, and two Co ...

''(Fourth round)'' #

Wang Chuqin Wang Chuqin ( simplified Chinese: 王楚钦; born 11 May 2000) is a Chinese table tennis player who is currently world rank number 2 in ITTF and is the top left hand player. Most recently, he was the silver medallist in Men's singles, gold medall ...

''(Fourth round)'' # Quadri Aruna ''(Quarterfinals)'' # Simon Gauzy ''(Third round)'' #

Koki Niwa is a Japanese male table tennis player. He is the gold medalist at the 2010 Youth Olympics and he won the World Junior Table Tennis Championships in 2010 (doubles) and 2011 (singles). On 21 April 2012, he defeated Ma Long of China, World Rank ...

''(Second round)'' #

Lee Sang-su Lee Sang-su (born 13 August 1990) is a South Korean table tennis player. He won two singles titles at the ITTF Pro Tour, the first one was in 2010. He reached semifinals in singles event at the 2017 World Championships. Lee Sangsu represented ...

''(Second round)'' #

Wong Chun Ting Wong Chun-ting (; born 7 September 1991) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. He won his first doubles title on the ITTF World Tour in 2012 and won another three doubles titles in 2014. In 2015, he won a bronze medal in mixed doubles event with ...

''(Fourth round)'' # Darko Jorgić ''(Fourth round)'' # Marcos Freitas ''(Second round)'' #

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 five times, making ...

''(Second round)'' #

Robert Gardos Robert Gardos ( hu, Gárdos Róbert, ; born 16 January 1979 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-born Austrian table tennis player, European Champion and Olympic participant. He plays for the French club Chartres ASTT. Since the opening in 2011, Rober ...

''(Second round)'' # Kristian Karlsson ''(Fourth round)'' #

Omar Assar Omar Assar (born 22 July 1991 in Desouk) is an Egyptian table tennis player. He won silver in singles and gold in team play at the 2011 Arab Games in Doha. He also competed at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics in the Men's singles, but was def ...

''(First round)'' #

Sharath Kamal Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982) is an Indian professional table tennis player. He is the first Indian table tennis player ever to become ten times Senior National Champion hence breaking the record of eight-time National Champion Kam ...

''(First round)'' #

Kanak Jha Kanak Jha (born June 19, 2000) is an American table tennis player of Indian descent. He is a two-time Olympian (2016 and 2020) and was the US national champion 4 times, winning the national title between 2016 and 2019 for a record four straight na ...

''(Quarterfinals)'' #

Jonathan Groth Jonathan Groth (born 9 November 1992) is a Danish table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 Au ...

''(Third round)'' #

Tomislav Pucar Tomislav Pucar (born 26 January 1996) is a Croatian table tennis player. In February 2017 he won the men's singles title at the inaugural European Under-21 Championships in Sochi. As of 2018, Pucar is playing for TTC RhönSprudel Fulda-Maberze ...

''(Third round)'' # Yang Wang ''(Fourth round, withdrawn)'' # Ruwen Filus ''(Fourth round)'' #

Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (born 8 January 1993) is an Indian table tennis player, who is the highest ranked Indian, currently ranked at 39 in the world as of November 2022. He was a member of the Indian team that won back to back Gold medals in 201 ...

''(Third round)'' # Gustavo Tsuboi ''(Second round)'' # Emmanuel Lebesson ''(Third round)''

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

References

External links

Draw
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