1959 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's singles

The 1959 World Table Tennis Championships men's singles was the 25th edition of the men's singles championship.[1][2]

1959 Men's singles
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Jung Kuo-tuan defeated Ferenc Sidó in the final, winning three sets to one to secure the title, became the first ever Chinese player to win a gold medal in the competition.[3]

Results

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Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
  Zoltán Berczik 21 21 21
  Li Jen Su 5 12 12   Berczik 21 15 19 21 5
  Jung Kuo-tuan 21 17 21 21   Kuo-tuan 17 21 21 18 21
  Nobuya Hoshino 18 21 16 14   Kuo-tuan 22 23 12 21 21
  Yang Jai-Hua 21 21 21   Miles 20 25 21 18 8
  Trần Văn Liễu 17 19 8   Jai-Hua 19 18 17
  Dick Miles 11 26 21 21   Miles 21 21 21
  Hsu Yin-Sheng 21 24 13 13   Kuo-tuan 19 21 21 21
  Wang Chuan-Yao 19 21 21 26 22   Sidó 21 12 15 14
  Zoltán Bubonyi 21 5 13 28 20   Chuan-Yao 13 21 16
  Ferenc Sidó 19 21 19 21 21   Sidó 21 23 21
  Teruo Murakami 21 15 21 7 15   Sidó 21 21 11 12 21
  Chuang Chia-Fu 14+ 8+ 9+ 7+ 13+   Ogimura 16 13 21 21 18
  Mai Văn Hòa 13 6 15 10 8   Chia-Fu 19 18 20
  Ichiro Ogimura 21 21 16 21   Ogimura 21 21 22
  Tony Larsson 17 11 21 16

+ Time limit rule applies

See also

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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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  1. ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
  2. ^ a b "1959 results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  3. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.