The ITTF World Cup 2025 kick started on Monday (April 14) in Macao. The table tennis tournament will run through till April 20 at the prestigious Galaxy Arena.
A total of 96 table tennis players are participating in singles action across both the men’s and women’s categories in the global event. While the men’s players battle for the prestigious Evans Cup in the men’s tournament, the women folks are fighting for the Hammarlund Cup.
Both the men’s and women’s have been divided into 16 groups of three players each. The table tennis tournament will be conducted in two stages. It will begin with the group stage played in a round-robin format, where each player competes in two matches. The top performers from each group will advance to the prequarter-finals, marking the start of the knockout stage.
All group stage matches will be played in four games, while the knockouts will have best of seven.
ITTF World Cup 2025: Groups
Men’s Singles
- Group 1: Lin Shidong, Hwan Bae, and Milosz Redzimski
- Group 2: Wang Chuqin, Tomislav Pucar, and Aditya Sareen
- Group 3: Tomokazu Harimoto, Mohamed Elbeiali, and Huang Youzheng
- Group 4: Liang Jingkun, Nicholas Lum, and Wong Chun Ting
- Group 5: Hugo Calderano, Yukiya Uda, and Eugene Wang
- Group 6: Truls Moregard, Finn Luu, and Vitor Ishiy
- Group 7: Patrick Franziska, Alvaro Robles, and Simon Gauzy
- Group 8: Felix Lebrun, Anders Lind, and Feng Yi-Hsin
- Group 9: Darko Jorgic, Kao Cheng-Jui, and Alfred Dela Pena
- Group 10: Lin Gaoyuan, Shunsuke Togami, and Ovidiu Ionescu
- Group 11: Jang Woojin, Hiroto Shinozuka, and Eric Jouti
- Group 12: Dang Qiu, Kanak Jha, and Horacio Cifuentes
- Group 13: Omar Assar, An Jaehyun, and Ylane Batix
- Group 14: Lin Yun-Ju, Dimitrij Ovtcharov, and Chan Chi In
- Group 15: Benedikt Duda, Oh Junsung, and Dean Shu
- Group 16: Anton Källberg, Quadri Aruna, and Abdel-Kader Salifou
Women’s Singles
- Group 1: Sun Yingsha, Mo Zhang, and Chien Tung-Chuan
- Group 2: Wang Manyu, Xiaona Shan, and Linda Bergstrom
- Group 3: Wang Yidi, Jia Nan Yuan, and Jieni Shao
- Group 4: Chen Xingtong, Lee Eunhye, and Sabine Winter
- Group 5: Kuai Man, Dina Meshref, and Zhu Chengzhu
- Group 6: Satsuki Odo, Ying Han, and Maria Xiao
- Group 7: Hina Hayata, Nina Mittelham, and Orawan Paranang
- Group 8: Miwa Harimoto, Doo Hoi Kem, and Mariam Alhodaby
- Group 9: Bernadette Szocs, Sreeja Akula, and Constantina Psihogios
- Group 10: Cheng I-Ching, Kim Nayeong, and Suthasini Sawettabut
- Group 11: Mima Ito, Huang Yi-Hua, and Jocelyn Lam
- Group 12: Shin Yubin, Elizabeta Samara, and Amy Wang
- Group 13: Sofia Polcanova, Hana Goda, and Seak Hui Li
- Group 14: Lily Zhang, Suh Hyo Won, and Chunli Li
- Group 15: Adriana Diaz, Prithika Pavade, and Annett Kaufmann
- Group 16: Bruna Takahashi, Manika Batra, and Malis Giret
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ITTF World Cup 2025: Schedule
All in Indian Standard Time (IST)
- April 14, Monday: Men’s and Women’s group stage matches – 7:00 AM onwards
- April 15, Tuesday: Men’s and Women’s group stage matches – 7:00 AM onwards
- April 16, Wednesday: Men’s and Women’s group stage matches – 7:00 AM onwards
- April 17, Thursday: Men’s and Women’s Round of 16 matches – 8:30 AM onwards
- April 18, Friday: Men’s and Women’s quarter-final matches – 8:30 AM onwards
- April 19, Saturday: Men’s and Women’s semi-final matches – 11:30 AM onwards
- April 20, Sunday: Men’s and Women’s final matches – 5:00 PM onwards
