World Cup 2014 (table tennis)
| 2013 ← World Cup → 2015 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men | Women | |
| date | October 24-26 | October 17-19 |
| place |
 Dusseldorf
|
 Linz
|
| Edition | 35 | 18th |
| winner |
 Zhang Jike Ma Long Timo Boll  
|
Ding Ning Li Xiaoxia Kasumi Ishikawa 
|
The table tennis World Cup 2014 took place for the men in its 35th running from 24 to 26 October at the German Dusseldorf and for the women in his 18th host from 17 to 19 October at the Austrian Linz instead. Gold went to Zhang Jike and Ding Ning from China .
mode
20 athletes took part in each competition. The eight best-placed participants in the world rankings were automatically qualified for the main round, which was held in knockout mode, the remaining twelve participants were divided into four groups of three athletes each, two of which qualified for the main round. The semi-final losers played a game for third place.
Attendees
The first column shows the final position, the columns "WRL-Pos." The world ranking position relevant for the seeding (yellow marks the 8 players directly seeded for the main round).
| Item | Men | WRL item | TN | Women | WRL item | TN |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Zhang Jike
|
4th | 3 |
Ding Ning
|
1 | 2 |
| 2 |
Ma Long
|
3 | 4th |
Li Xiaoxia
|
3 | 5 |
| 3 |
Timo Boll
|
9 | 13 |
Kasumi Ishikawa
|
9 | 3 |
| 4th |
Jun Mizutani
|
7th | 4th |
 Georgina Póta
|
26th | 2 |
| 5 |
 Tiago Apolonia
|
17th | 1 |
Sayaka Hirano
|
17th | 5 |
 Quadri Aruna
|
73 | 2 |
 Melek Hu
|
32 | 2 | |
 Chuang Chih-Yuan
|
8th | 13 |
 Jiang Huajun
|
8th | ||
|
Dimitrij Ovtcharov
|
5 | 7th |
Liu Jia
|
13 | 9 | |
| 9 |
Chen Chien-An
|
22nd | 2 |
Cheng I-Ching
|
37 | 1 |
 Adrian Crișan
|
28 | 2 |
Lee Ho Ching
|
14th | 1 | |
|
Marcos Freitas
|
12 | 3 |
 Li Jiao
|
20th | 6th | |
 Panagiotis Gionis
|
21st | 1 |
Elizabeta Samara
|
15th | 2 | |
 Kamal Sharath Achanta
|
44 | 2 |
 Seo Hyowon
|
10 | 1 | |
|
Kenta Matsudaira
|
27 | 2 |
Petrissa Solja
|
34 | 1 | |
 Adrien Mattenet
|
58 | 3 |
 Iveta Vacenovská
|
45 | 1 | |
|
Tang Peng
|
16 | 4th |
Wu Jiaduo
|
29 | 4th | |
| 17th |
 William Henzell
|
101 | 7th |
Jian Fang Lay
|
120 | 4th |
 Kanak Jha
|
423 | 1 |
 Caroline Kumahara
|
116 | 2 | |
|
Cazuo Matsumoto
|
79 | 2 |
 Dina Meshref
|
112 | 2 | |
 Alexander Shibayev
|
37 | 1 |
 Zhang Mo
|
103 | 3 |
Men
Group stage
Group 1
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Tiago Apolonia
|
4: 1 |
Cazuo Matsumoto
|
|
Tiago Apolonia
|
4-0 |
Kamal Sharath Achanta
|
|
Kamal Sharath Achanta
|
4: 1 |
Cazuo Matsumoto
|
| space | player | Games | sentences | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Tiago Apolonia
|
2 | 8: 1 | 4th |
| 2 |
Kamal Sharath Achanta
|
2 | 4: 5 | 3 |
| 3 |
Cazuo Matsumoto
|
2 | 2: 8 | 2 |
Group 2
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Panagiotis Gionis
|
4-0 |
William Henzell
|
|
Panagiotis Gionis
|
0: 4 |
Adrien Mattenet
|
|
Adrien Mattenet
|
4: 3 |
William Henzell
|
| space | player | Games | sentences | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Adrien Mattenet
|
2 | 8: 3 | 4th |
| 2 |
Panagiotis Gionis
|
2 | 4: 4 | 3 |
| 3 |
William Henzell
|
2 | 3: 8 | 2 |
Group 3
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Chen Chien-An
|
4: 1 |
Kanak Jha
|
|
Chen Chien-An
|
4: 3 |
Adrian Crișan
|
|
Adrian Crișan
|
4-0 |
Kanak Jha
|
| space | player | Games | sentences | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Chen Chien-An
|
2 | 8: 4 | 4th |
| 2 |
Adrian Crișan
|
2 | 7: 4 | 3 |
| 3 |
Kanak Jha
|
2 | 1: 8 | 2 |
Group 4
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Kenta Matsudaira
|
2: 4 |
Quadri Aruna
|
|
Kenta Matsudaira
|
4: 1 |
Alexander Shibayev
|
|
Alexander Shibayev
|
0: 4 |
Quadri Aruna
|
| space | player | Games | sentences | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Quadri Aruna
|
2 | 8: 2 | 4th |
| 2 |
Kenta Matsudaira
|
2 | 6: 5 | 3 |
| 3 |
Alexander Shibayev
|
2 | 1: 8 | 2 |
Main round
| Round of 16 | Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | |||||||||||
| Ma Long
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Kenta Matsudaira
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Ma Long
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Tiago Apolonia
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Tiago Apolonia
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Marcos Freitas
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Ma Long
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Jun Mizutani
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Chuang Chih-Yuan
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Chen Chien-An
|
2 | |||||||||||||
| Chuang Chih-Yuan
|
1 | |||||||||||||
| Jun Mizutani
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Panagiotis Gionis
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Jun Mizutani
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Ma Long
|
3 | |||||||||||||
| Zhang Jike
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Dimitrij Ovtcharov
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Kamal Sharath Achanta
|
3 | |||||||||||||
| Dimitrij Ovtcharov
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Timo Boll
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Adrien Mattenet
|
1 | |||||||||||||
| Timo Boll
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Timo Boll
|
3 | |||||||||||||
| Zhang Jike
|
4th | 3rd place match | ||||||||||||
| Tang Peng
|
2 | |||||||||||||
| Quadri Aruna
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Quadri Aruna
|
2 | Timo Boll
|
4th | |||||||||||
| Zhang Jike
|
4th | Jun Mizutani
|
2 | |||||||||||
| Adrian Crișan
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Zhang Jike
|
4th | |||||||||||||
Women
Group stage
Group 1
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Li Jiao
|
4: 3 |
Zhang Mo
|
|
Li Jiao
|
1: 4 |
Iveta Vacenovská
|
|
Iveta Vacenovská
|
4: 1 |
Zhang Mo
|
| space | player | Games | sentences | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Iveta Vacenovská
|
2 | 8: 2 | 4th |
| 2 |
Li Jiao
|
2 | 5: 7 | 3 |
| 3 |
Zhang Mo
|
2 | 4: 8 | 2 |
Group 2
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Georgina Póta
|
4: 1 |
Jian Fang Lay
|
|
Georgina Póta
|
4: 1 |
Cheng I-Ching
|
|
Cheng I-Ching
|
4-0 |
Jian Fang Lay
|
| space | player | Games | sentences | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Georgina Póta
|
2 | 8: 2 | 4th |
| 2 |
Cheng I-Ching
|
2 | 5: 4 | 3 |
| 3 |
Jian Fang Lay
|
2 | 1: 8 | 2 |
Group 3
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Wu Jiaduo
|
4-0 |
Caroline Kumahara
|
|
Wu Jiaduo
|
4: 1 |
Jiang Huajun
|
|
Jiang Huajun
|
4-0 |
Caroline Kumahara
|
| space | player | Games | sentences | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Wu Jiaduo
|
2 | 8: 1 | 4th |
| 2 |
Jiang Huajun
|
2 | 5: 4 | 3 |
| 3 |
Caroline Kumahara
|
2 | 0: 8 | 2 |
Group 4
| Result | ||
|---|---|---|
|
Melek Hu
|
4: 1 |
Dina Meshref
|
|
Melek Hu
|
4: 2 |
Petrissa Solja
|
|
Petrissa Solja
|
4: 1 |
Dina Meshref
|
| space | player | Games | sentences | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Melek Hu
|
2 | 8: 3 | 4th |
| 2 |
Petrissa Solja
|
2 | 6: 5 | 3 |
| 3 |
Dina Meshref
|
2 | 2: 8 | 2 |
Main round
| Round of 16 | Quarter finals | Semifinals | final | |||||||||||
| Ding Ning
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Li Jiao
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Ding Ning
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Melek Hu
|
1 | |||||||||||||
| Melek Hu
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Elizabeta Samara
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Ding Ning
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Kasumi Ishikawa
|
2 | |||||||||||||
| Sayaka Hirano
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Wu Jiaduo
|
1 | |||||||||||||
| Sayaka Hirano
|
2 | |||||||||||||
| Kasumi Ishikawa
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Cheng I-Ching
|
2 | |||||||||||||
| Kasumi Ishikawa
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Ding Ning
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Li Xiaoxia
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Seo Hyowon
|
1 | |||||||||||||
| Jiang Huajun
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Jiang Huajun
|
3 | |||||||||||||
| Georgina Póta
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Georgina Póta
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Lee Ho Ching
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Georgina Póta
|
1 | |||||||||||||
| Li Xiaoxia
|
4th | 3rd place match | ||||||||||||
| Liu Jia
|
4th | |||||||||||||
| Iveta Vacenovská
|
1 | |||||||||||||
| Liu Jia
|
3 | Kasumi Ishikawa
|
4th | |||||||||||
| Li Xiaoxia
|
4th | Georgina Póta
|
1 | |||||||||||
| Petrissa Solja
|
0 | |||||||||||||
| Li Xiaoxia
|
4th | |||||||||||||
Others
For a rally in the quarterfinals between Zhang Jike and Quadri Aruna, the latter received the Table Tennis Star Point Award in January 2015. Quadri Aruna was also the first African player since 1992 to make it into the main round and into the top eight of a World Cup.
Zhang Jike, the men's winner, did not receive any prize money because he had crushed two advertising boards after winning the final.
Liu Jia was honored as a Fair Play Star in January 2015 after correcting a favorable but wrong referee decision in favor of her opponent Li Xiaoxia in the quarterfinals.
The women's World Cup took place outside of Asia for the first time, as it was held in Linz .
Web links
- Men's World Cup 2014 on ittf.com (accessed August 28, 2015)
- Women's World Cup 2014 on ittf.com (accessed August 28, 2015)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2014 Men's World Cup - Shot of Day 2 (accessed March 25, 2018)
- ↑ a b ITTF Star Awards: Aruna clears away, dance performance by Ma Long (accessed on March 25, 2018)
- ↑ tischtennis.de - LIEBHERR Men's World Cup: Boll third at home game / winner Zhang Jike does not receive any prize money (accessed on March 25, 2018)