The 2017 ITTF Men's World Cup was a table tennis competition held in Liège, Belgium, from 20 to 22 October 2017. It was the 38th edition of the ITTF-sanctioned event, and the fourth time that it had been staged in Belgium.
In the final, Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov defeated fellow German Timo Boll, 4–2, to win his first World Cup title.
Qualification
The following list of players was confirmed on 25 September 2017, based on the qualification system set by the ITTF.
No. World Ranking(August 2017) Player Qualified as11 Ma LongWorld Champion231 Quadri ArunaAfrica Cup winner332 Lin GaoyuanAsian Cup winner4104 Gustavo TsuboiPanAm Cup winner5212 Kanak JhaPanAm Cup North American qualifier6293 David PowellOceania Cup winner74 Dimitrij OvtcharovEurope Top 16 winner812 Lee Sang-suAsian Cup 2nd place952 Chen Chien-anAsian Cup 3rd place1035 Alexander ShibaevEurope Top 16 2nd place1113 Simon GauzyEurope Top 16 3rd place126 Jun MizutaniContinental Cup qualifier1330 Kou LeiContinental Cup qualifier147 Timo BollContinental Cup qualifier1539 Omar AssarContinental Cup qualifier1640 Jeong Sang-eunContinental Cup qualifier1714 Chuang Chih-yuanContinental Cup qualifier189 Koki NiwaContinental Cup qualifier1981 Cédric NuytinckHost nation representative2015 Marcos FreitasWild card
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 then 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 2017.
Preliminary stage
The preliminary group stage took place on 20 October, with the top two players in each group progressing to the main draw.
Chen Chien-an withdrew from the competition on the opening day due to illness.
Group A Lee Aruna JhaPoints9 Lee Sang-su 4–3 4–3414 Quadri Aruna3–44–2319 Kanak Jha3–42–42
Group B Freitas Kou PowellPoints10 Marcos Freitas 4–0 4–0413 Kou Lei0–44–0320 David Powell0–40–42
Group C Shibaev Assar NuytinckPoints16 A. Shibaev 4–3 4–04'' |- style="text-align:center;background-color:#ffffff;" |style="background-color:#ededed;"|11 | style="text-align:left;" | Omar Assar| |3–4 |style="background-color:#ededed;"| | |4–3|style="background-color:#ededed;"|3|- style="text-align:center;background-color:#ffffff;" |style="background-color:#ededed;"|17 | style="text-align:left;" | Cédric Nuytinck | |0–4 | |3–4 |style="background-color:#ededed;"| |style="background-color:#ededed;"|2'''
Group D Jeong Tsuboi ChenPoints15 Jeong Sang-eun 4–1 w/o418 Gustavo Tsuboi1–4w/o312 Chen Chien-anw/dw/d
Main draw
The knockout stage took place from 21–22 October.
See also 2017 World Table Tennis Championships 2017 ITTF Women's World Cup 2017 ITTF World Tour 2017 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
References
External links ITTF website