The reigning individual European champions Timo Boll and Li Qian are qualified, as are the top 14 European players in the world rankings of December 2018 (without taking into account the European champions and players who are not among the top two of the respective association or who are not eligible to play Have world tournaments). Since there is no player from the host Switzerland among these 15 players for men and women, the host may nominate a further participant each, otherwise the last place would also be assigned via the world rankings. The wildcards went to Lionel Weber and Rachel Moret .
The participants played in the knockout system from the start . The semi-final losers played a game for third place, the top three automatically qualified for the World Cup .
Attendees
The first column shows the final ranking, the columns "WRL" and "ERL" the world and European ranking positions from February 2019 relevant for the setting.