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 ...

successfully defended his title by defeating

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 ...

7–11, 11–6, 11–3, 11–8, 5–11, 7–11, 12–10 in the final.

Seeds

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''(final)'' # Xu Xin ''(semifinals)'' #

Zhang Jike Zhang Jike (; born 16 February 1988) is a retired Chinese table tennis player. Zhang became the fourth male player in the history of table tennis to achieve a career Grand Slam when he won gold in men's singles at the Olympic games in London 20 ...

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Dimitrij Ovtcharov Dimitrij Ovtcharov () or Dmytro Ovtcharov (; born 2 September 1988) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. His father Mikhail (or Mikhaylo), a Soviet table tennis champion in 1982, moved his family to Germany shortly after Dimitrij was ...

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Jun Mizutani is a retired Japanese table tennis player and Olympic champion. He became the youngest Japanese national champion at the age of 17. He has the distinction of being the first male singles titlist to achieve five consecutive national championship ...

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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 D ...

''(quarterfinals)'' #

Timo Boll Timo Boll (, ; born 8 March 1981) is a German former professional table tennis player. Boll is the most successful German table tennis player of all time, having won several medals at Olympic Games, world cups, and world championships. He was ra ...

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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 t ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

''(fourth round)'' #

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.

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Simon Gauzy Simon Gauzy (born 25 October 1994) is a French table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international ...

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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 Frei ...

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Kenta Matsudaira is a Japanese table tennis player. Winner of the 2006 World Junior Championships in singles, he was the world number one junior player in 2008. He is world-renowned for his tomahawk serve, which he has popularized throughout his career. The se ...

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Tiago Apolónia Tiago André Barata Feio Peixoto Apolónia (born 28 July 1986) is a Portuguese table tennis player for German club TTF LIEBHERR Ochsenhausen and Portugal. As of August 2016, he is ranked the number eighteenth player in the world. Career Born in ...

''(first 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 S ...

''(semifinals)'' #

Stefan Fegerl Stefan Fegerl (born 12 September 1988 in Gmünd) is an Austrian table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event, in which he was eliminated in the third round by Koki Niwa is a Japanese male table te ...

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Kristian Karlsson Kristian Gunnar Karlsson (; born 6 August 1991) is a Swedish professional table tennis player. Career Born in Trollhättan, Västra Götaland, Karlsson started to play table tennis in his hometown club at the age of 8. He remained in Trollhätt ...

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Kou Lei Kou Lei (; born 20 November 1987 in Beijing) is a Ukrainian table tennis player of Chinese origin. Career As of April 2017, Kou is ranked no. 20 in the world by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). Kou is also right-handed, and us ...

''(second round)'' #

Hugo Calderano Hugo Marinho Borges Calderano (; born 22 June 1996, in Rio de Janeiro) is a Brazilian table tennis player and considered the greatest player from the American continent in the history of the sport. In January 2022, he was ranked No. 3 in the ...

''(third round)'' #

Bastian Steger Bastian Steger (born 19 March 1981) is a German table tennis player. He competed for Germany at the 2012 Summer Olympics where he won a bronze medal in the team event. He also won the bronze medal in the men's team event during the 2016 Summer ...

''(second round)'' # Mattias Karlsson ''(third round)'' # Yuto Muramatsu ''(third round)'' #

Chen Chien-an Chen Chien-an (; born 16 June 1991) is a Taiwanese 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 cou ...

''(second round)'' # Ruwen Filus ''(fourth round)'' # Alexander Shibaev ''(third round)'' #

Emmanuel Lebesson Emmanuel Lebesson (born 24 April 1988) is a French table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's singles event, in which he was eliminated by Adrian Crișan, and as part of the French team in the men's team event. In ...

''(second round)'' #

Panagiotis Gionis Panagiotis Gionis (born 7 January 1980) is a Greek table tennis player and a dentist. He is a member in the Greece National Team and has competed in 6 Olympics and many World and European Championships. He has been playing professionally in Ge ...

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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 ...

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Andrej Gaćina Andrej Gaćina (born 21 May 1986) is a male table tennis player from Croatia. Career Since 2007, he has won two medals in doubles and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships. As of August 2016, he was the number nineteenth play ...

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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' si ...

''(third round)'' #

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 ...

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Jonathan Groth Jonathan Kjaer Groth (born 9 November 1992) is a Danish 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 ...

''(third round)'' #

Gao Ning Gao Ning (; born 11 October 1982) is a retired Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player. He is currently appointed as the Singapore Table Tennis National Coach for men. He is considered Singapore's best male player with a world ranking of 3 ...

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Pär Gerell Pär Håkan Gerell (born 23 June 1982 in Växjö) is a Swedish table tennis player. He has been playing for French club Chartres ASTT since 2010. Based on his June 2011 world ranking, Gerell qualified for the London 2012 Olympic Games. He als ...

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Paul Drinkhall Paul Andrew Drinkhall (born 16 January 1990) is a British table tennis player. He won the English Championship in 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 and 2024. Career Drinkhall was born in Middlesbrough. His career in table tennis started in 19 ...

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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 ...

''(second round)'' # João Monteiro ''(second round)'' # Ricardo Walther ''(second round)'' #

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 Co ...

''(first round)'' #

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

''(second round)'' #

Sharath Kamal Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982) is an Indian former table tennis player. He is a ten time national champion. In 2019, he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award. In 2022, he was awarded the Khel Ratna Award, ...

''(third round)'' #

Jeong Sang-eun Jeong Sang-eun (, born 2 April 1990) is a Chinese-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 ...

''(fourth round)'' #

Bojan Tokič Bojan ( Serbian Cyrillic and Macedonian: Бојан; Ukrainian, Russian and Bulgarian Cyrillic: Боян, transcribed ''Boyan'') is a Slavic given name, derived from the Slavic noun ''boj'' "battle." The ending ''-an'' is a suffix frequently ...

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Jakub Dyjas Jakub Dyjas (born 9 October 1995) is a Polish table tennis player. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international ...

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Jiang Tianyi Jiang Tianyi (; born 28 February 1988) is a male table tennis player. He won the men's singles title at the 2008 Brazil Open. In 2010, he won 3 doubles titles on the ITTF Pro Tour, including 2010 ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals The ITTF World Tour G ...

''(second round)'' #

Ho Kwan Kit Ho Kwan-kit (; born 20 April 1997) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. He qualified to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro, or simply Rio, is the capital of the Rio de Janeiro (state), state of Rio de Janeiro. It is ...

''(second round)'' #

Wang Zengyi Wang Zengyi (born 24 June 1983 in Tianjin, China) is a China, Chinese-Poland, Polish table tennis player. He competed for Poland at the Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics.Omar Assar Omar Muhammadi Muhammad Muhammad Assar (born 22 July 1991) 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 sin ...

''(second round)'' # Wang Yang ''(second round)'' #

Adrian Crișan Adrian Crișan (born 7 May 1980) is a Romanian professional table tennis player who currently plays with SV Werder Bremen. He competed in the Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games, also known as the Summer Olympics or the Games of ...

''(first round)'' #

Tomokazu Harimoto is a Japanese professional table tennis player who is ranked No. 4 in the ITTF rankings. Born to Chinese parents, he became a naturalized Japanese citizen in 2014. He won the world junior singles and team title at the 2016 World Junior Table T ...

''(quarterfinals)'' # Tomáš Konečný ''(first round)'' #

Chen Weixing Chen Weixing (; born April 27, 1972, in Inner Mongolia, China) is an Austrian table tennis player of Chinese origin. He has played for SVS Lower Austria for several years. Chen found it difficult to be selected in China's competitive nation ...

''(second round)'' #

Ovidiu Ionescu Ovidiu George Ionescu (born 28 June 1989) is a Romanian professional table tennis player who plays with Post SV Mühlhausen and SCM Gloria Buzău. Career Ionescu competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the singles event, in which he was eliminat ...

''(third round)'' #

Noshad Alamian Noshad Alamian Darounkolaei (, born 21 November 1991 in Babol) is an Iranian table tennis player. Alamian made a breakthrough at 2008 ITTF World Junior Championships held in Madrid, Spain by beating junior world no. 1 Kenta Matsudaira; despite ...

''(second round)'' #

João Geraldo João Pedro Ferreiro Geraldo (born 29 September 1995) is a Portuguese table tennis player from Mirandela, who currently plays for German club TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen and Greek club Panathinaikos (table tennis club), Panathinaikos. Together wit ...

''(second round)'' #

Grigory Vlasov Grigory, Grigori and Grigoriy () are Russian masculine given names. Russian version of Gregory (given name). Grigory * Grigory Baklanov (1923–2009), Russian novelist * Grigory Barenblatt (1927–2018), Russian mathematician * Grigory Bey-Bie ...

''(first 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 ...

''(first round)'' # Hunor Szőcs ''(third round)'' #

Soumyajit Ghosh Soumyajit Ghosh (; born 10 May 1993) is an Indian table tennis player from Siliguri, West Bengal. He was the youngest Indian player to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympics. He also became the youngest national champion at the age of 19, when he ...

''(first round)'' #

Benedek Oláh Benedek Márton Oláh (born 29 March 1991) is a Finnish table tennis player. He is the first Finnish Olympian in table tennis competition. Career In 2016, Oláh won an ITTF World Tour title in men's singles at the Nigeria Open. He competed ...

''(second round)'' #

Cho Seung-min Cho or CHO may refer to: People * Chief Happiness Officer * Chief Heat Officer Surnames * Cho (Korean surname), one romanization of the common Korean surname * Zhuo (), romanized Cho in Wade–Giles, Chinese surname * Cho, a Minnan romaniza ...

''(second round)''

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

References

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Main draw
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