ITTF World Tour 2019

ITTF World Tour
2018 ← World Tour 2019 → 2020
Number of tournaments	13 (including finals)
Prize money	US $ 3,878,000
winner
Single (♂)	Fan Zhendong
Single (♀)	Chen Meng
Double (♂)	Fan Zhendong Xu Xin
Double (♀)	Miyuu Kihara Miyu Nagasaki
Doubles (mixed)	Xu Xin Liu Shiwen

The ITTF World Tour took place in its 24th edition in 2019. It started on January 17th with the Hungarian Open in Budapest and ended on December 15th with the Grand Finals in Zhengzhou .

mode

The participating players were able to play in 12 different qualifying tournaments, which were divided into two categories - World Tour and World Tour Platinum. In each tournament there was a singles and doubles competition for men and women as well as one for mixed doubles . Depending on the category and the placement achieved, points were distributed, with the players with the most points qualifying for the Grand Finals. A seat was reserved for a player or a double from the host country of the Grand Finals, if there is someone who meets the entry criteria.

Independent of this, there were also six tournaments of the Challenge Plus Series and eight tournaments of the Challenge Series.

Distribution of points	World Tour Platinum (6 ×)		World Tour (6 ×)
	singles	Doubles / mixed	singles	Doubles / mixed
1st place	500	300	250	200
place 2	300	150	125	100
Semifinals	200	75	63	50
Quarter finals	100	38	31	25th
Round of 16	50	19th	16	13
last 32	25th	-	8th	-

Tournaments

Six tournaments take place in Asia (including the Grand Finals), six in Europe and one in Oceania.

World Tour Platinum

World Tour

Grand Finals

No.	competition	place	date	Winner men		Winners women		Mixed winner	Prize money
				singles	Double	singles	Double
1	Hungarian Open	Budapest	15.1. – 20.1.	Lin Gaoyuan	Liang Jingkun Xu Xin	Chen Meng	Wang Manyu Zhu Yuling	Xu Xin Liu Shiwen	$ 170,000
2	Qatar Open	Doha	26.3. – 31.3.	Ma Long	Ho Kwan Kit Wong Chun Ting	Wang Manyu	Sun Yingsha Wang Manyu	Xu Xin Liu Shiwen	$ 300,000
3	China Open	Shenzhen	28.5. – 2.6.	Ma Long	Timo Boll Patrick Franziska	Chen Meng	Gu Yuting Liu Shiwen	Lin Yun-Ju Cheng I-Ching	$ 400,000
4th	Hong Kong Open	Hong Kong	4.6. – 9.6.	Lin Gaoyuan	Liang Jingkun Lin Gaoyuan	Wang Yidi	Chen Ke Mu Zi	Lin Yun-Ju Cheng I-Ching	$ 175,000
5	Japan Open	Sapporo	12.6. – 16.6.	Xu Xin	Fan Zhendong Xu Xin	Sun Yingsha	Chen Meng Liu Shiwen	Xu Xin Zhu Yuling	$ 270,000
6th	Korea Open	Busan	2.7. – 7.7.	Xu Xin	Fan Zhendong Xu Xin	Chen Meng	Chen Meng Wang Manyu	Wong Chun Ting Doo Hoi Kem	$ 150,000
7th	Australian Open	Geelong	7/9 - 7/14	Xu Xin	Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su	Sun Yingsha	Chen Meng Wang Manyu	Wong Chun Ting Doo Hoi Kem	$ 332,000
8th	Bulgaria Open	Panagyurishte	13.8.-18.8.	Tomokazu Harimoto	Jung Young-sik Lee Sang-su	Chen Xingtong	Gu Yuting Mu Zi	Jun Mizutani Mima Itō	$ 190,000
9	Czech Open	Olomouc	20.8. – 25.8.	Lin Yun-Ju	Cho Dae-seong Lee Sang-su	Chen Xingtong	Gu Yuting Mu Zi	Cho Dae-seong Shin Yubin	$ 190,000
10	Swedish Open	Stockholm	1.10. – 6.10.	Wang Chuqin	Fan Zhendong Xu Xin	Chen Meng	Chen Meng Ding Ning	Xu Xin Liu Shiwen	$ 170,000
11	German Open	Bremen	October 8th - October 13th	Fan Zhendong	Liang Jingkun Xu Xin	Sun Yingsha	Jeon Jihee Yang Ha-eun	Xu Xin Sun Yingsha	$ 270,000
12	Austrian Open	Linz	November 12th - November 17th	Fan Zhendong	Liang Jingkun Lin Gaoyuan	Mima Ito	Miyuu Kihara Miyu Nagasaki	Tomokazu Harimoto Hina Hayata	$ 260,000
13	Grand Finals	Zhengzhou	12/12 - 15/12	Fan Zhendong	Fan Zhendong Xu Xin	Chen Meng	Miyuu Kihara Miyu Nagasaki	Xu Xin Liu Shiwen	$ 1,001,000

Challenge Series

Four tournaments were held in Asia, seven in Europe, two in America and one in Africa.

Challenge Plus

Challenge

No.	place	date	Winner men			Winners women			Mixed winner	Prize money
			singles	Double	U-21	singles	Double	U-21
1	Lisbon	13.2. – 17.2.	Liang Jingkun	Cao Wei Xu Yingbin	Shunsuke Togami	Hina Hayata	Fan Siqi Yang Huijing	Fan Siqi	Lin Gaoyuan Liu Shiwen	$ 60,000
2	Muscat	20.3.-24.3.	Lin Yun-Ju	Liao Chen-Ting Lin Yun-Ju	Vladimir Sidorenko	Hina Hayata	Satsuki Odo Saki Shibata	Satsuki Odo	Lin Yun-Ju Cheng I-Ching	$ 65,000
3	Guadalajara	20.3.-24.3.	Zhai Yujia	Kilian place Dang Qiu	Horacio Cifuentes	Miyu Kato	Stephanie Loeuilette Yuan Jia Nan	Adriana Díaz	-	$ 30,000
4th	Belgrade	1.5. – 5.5.	Paul Drinkhall	Diogo Carvalho João Geraldo	Leo de Nordrest	Hina Hayata	Ng Wing Nam Minnie Soo Wai Yam	Maria Malanina	-	$ 30,000
5	Otočec	8.5. – 12.5.	Wei Shihao	Eric Jouti Gustavo Tsuboi	Feng Yi-Hsin	Georgina Póta	Miyuu Kihara Miyu Nagasaki	Miyu Nagasaki	-	$ 30,000
6th	Zagreb	14.5.-18.5.	Anton Källberg	Shunsuke Togami Yukiya Uda	Yukiya Uda	Miyuu Kihara	Miyuu Kihara Miyu Nagasaki	Sun Jiayi	-	$ 30,000
7th	Bangkok	May 22-26	Ruwen Filus	Ruwen Filus Steffen Mengel	Li Hsin-Yu	Hitomi Satō	Satsuki Odo Saki Shibata	Yuka Umemura	-	$ 30,000
8th	Pyongyang	July 24th - July 28th	To Ji Song	Ham Yu-song Ri Kwang Myong	Feng Yi-Hsin	Kim Song-i	Cha Hyo Sim Kim Nam Hae	Pyon Song Gyong	Ham Yu song Cha Hyo Sim	$ 60,000
9	Lagos	7.8. – 11.8.	Quadri Aruna	Cedric Nuytinck Quentin Robinot	Cristian Pletea	Polina Mikhailova	Polina Michailowa Jana Noskowa	Andreea Dragoman	Kilian place Yuan Wan	$ 60,000
10	Asunción	10.9. – 14.9.	Masataka Morizono	Masataka Morizono Ľubomír Pištej	Horacio Cifuentes	Hina Hayata	Honoka Hashimoto Maki Shiomi	Maki Shiomi	Brian Afanador Adriana Díaz	$ 60,000
11	Władysławowo	16.10. – 20.10.	Xu Yingbin	Gaston Alto Horacio Cifuentes	Xiang Peng	Hey Zhuojia	Honoka Hashimoto Maki Shiomi	Kuai Man	-	$ 30,000
12	Minsk	30.10. – 3.11.	Emmanuel Lebesson	Xu Haidong Zhao Zhaoyan	Sai Linwei	Hina Hayata	Satsuki Odo Saki Shibata	Shi Xunyao	-	$ 30,000
13	Yogyakarta	November 13 - November 17	Harmeet Desai	Ibrahima Diaw Padasak Tanviriyavechakul	Yuma Tanigaki	Shao Jieni	Luo Xue Shao Jieni	Moe Nomura	-	$ 30,000
14th	Markham	December 4 - December 8	Xiang Peng	Cao Wei Xu Yingbin	Manav Vikash Thakkar	Kasumi Ishikawa	Honoka Hashimoto Hitomi Satō	Wang Xiaotong	Ľubomír Pištej Barbora Balážová	$ 75,000

Web links

• The World Tour 2019 on the ITTF website (accessed December 23, 2018)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Seamaster 2019 ITTF World Tour Directives. ittf.com, p. 6 , accessed December 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ POINTS ALLOCATION FOR ITTF WORLD TOUR STANDINGS. ittf.com, accessed December 23, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Events. ittf.com, accessed December 23, 2018 . 
4. ^ Prize Money. ittf.com, accessed October 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Challenge Events. ittf.com, accessed December 23, 2018 .