If there is any important international table tennis event before the Paris Olympics, it will undoubtedly be the Macau Table Tennis World Cup, which will start on April 15. The reason why it is important is not only because it is one of the three major tournaments, but also because this year's World Cup is back after 2020, and the participants and formats are different. For example, in the past, each association or country could only send two athletes to participate, and there were only 16 athletes in total. This year, each country can send up to four participants and up to six participants, which increases the gold content of the event. In addition to Liu Shiwen, the five-time champion, Ma Lin, Wang Nan, Zhang Yining, Fan Zhendong, and Bol's results are also very good, and some athletes have also achieved very good results.
First place, Liu Shiwen.
Liu Shiwen is arguably the best athlete in the history of the World Cup, she won in 2009, 2012 and 2013
In 2015 and 2019, she won the women's singles championship five times, and also won the singles runner-up once in 2017, making her the most titled athlete.
The Women's Table Tennis World Cup was founded in 1996, and Deng Yaping won the first women's singles championship. But she retired early, so she only got it once. Liu Shiwen's strength lies in her early fame and strong ability to seize opportunities. She has won the women's singles title five times in six appearances. Especially in the 2009 Guangzhou Women's Table Tennis World Cup, the national team sent Li Xiaoxia and Guo Yue, who participated with a wild card, and successively defeated Li Xiaoxia and Guo Yue to win the championship, and the gold content is quite high. Moreover, she was only 18 years old at the time.
second place, Wang Nan, Ma Lin, Zhang Yining and Puffer.
Wang Nan, Ma Lin, Zhang Yining and Fan Zhendong have all won the World Cup singles championship four times, which ranks second.
Among them, Wang Nan won the women's singles championship four times in 1997, 1998, 2003 and 2007, and also won the singles runner-up twice. Zhang Yining won the women's singles championship four times in 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2005, and also won two singles runners-up. These two Grand Slam players are really good.
Marlene in 2000, 2003, 2004
In 2006, he won the men's singles championship four times, and because of the large number of championships, Ma Lin was also known as "Mr. World Cup".
Fan Zhendong is also very good, first he won the men's singles championship four times in 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020, in addition to the men's singles runner-up in 2015.
Third place, Wang Hao, Samsonov and Ding Ning.
Belarusian Samsonov, Wang Hao and Ding Ning are all three-time World Cup singles champions and finished third.
Samsonov won the World Cup three times in 1999, 2001 and 2009. I didn't expect Samsonov to be so powerful, for example, in the 1999 World Cup, Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui, Wang Liqin and Waldner all participated, but it was Samsonov who won the championship. And in the 2009 World Cup, the 33-year-old won the championship with the No. 2 seed Ma Long and the Athens Olympic men's doubles champion Chen Xi, and the results were really good.
Wang Hao won the World Cup singles championship three times in 2007, 2008 and 2010.
Ding Ning won the World Cup Women's Singles three times in 2011, 2014 and 2018.
Fourth, Guo Yuehua, Ma Wenge, Primorac, Bol, Zhang Jike, Ma Long, and Guo Yan are all two-time World Cup singles champions, ranking fourth.
The Men's Table Tennis World Cup began in 1980, and Guo Yuehua and Ma Wenge both won the World Cup singles championship twice. Among them, Guo Yuehua won the championship in 1980 and 1982 respectively. Ma Wenge won the championship in 1989 and 1992.
Croatia's Primorac won the title in 1993 and 1997 respectively.
Germany's Boll won the World Cup singles title twice in 2002 and 2005. Bol's strength is that he is the same age as Wang Hao Marin, but he can still stand on the stage of international competitions. In the 2002 World Cup, he swept the world champion Wang Liqin 3-0 in the quarterfinals, and in the final, he knocked out the Olympic champion Kong Linghui and won the championship. In the 2005 World Cup, Bol won the championship by winning Wang Liqin, Ma Lin and Wang Hao, and won the top players in China, which was too high.
Zhang Jike won the World Cup singles title in 2011 and 2014, while Ma Long won the World Cup singles title twice in 2012 and 2015.
Guo Yan won the World Cup singles title twice in 2006 and 2010.
In addition, Jiang Jialiang, Chen Xinhua, Chen Longcan, Teng Yi, Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui, Xu Xin, Deng Yaping, Li Ju, Li Xiaoxia, Zhu Yuling and Chen Meng each won a World Cup singles championship.
In fact, when it comes to the World Cup, there is another name that has to be mentioned, and that is Miu Hirano, when she won the women's singles championship at the age of 16, becoming the youngest World Cup singles champion.
There is also a reason why she won this championship, that is, in the 20th World Cup held in Philadelphia, USA, two Chinese players Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen retired due to injury, and finally the 16-year-old Japanese post-00 player Miu Hirano won the championship and became the only non-Chinese player in the Women's Table Tennis World Cup.
Now that the World Cup will restart, the national table tennis has sent Fan Zhendong, Wang Chuqin, Ma Long, Liang Jingkun, Lin Gaoyuan, Lin Shidong, Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, Wang Yidi, Wang Manyu, Chen Xingtong and Kuo Man 12 people to participate, who will win the championship in the end?